{"id":7395,"date":"2013-09-29T12:15:17","date_gmt":"2013-09-29T17:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=7395"},"modified":"2013-09-29T12:15:17","modified_gmt":"2013-09-29T17:15:17","slug":"drafting-table-time-getting-it-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/7395","title":{"rendered":"Drafting Table Time&#8230;Getting It Out&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pencils done on the cartoon for the next issue of OUTLoud&#8230;finally. With enough time left over to spend the rest of this lovely day inside carefully doing the inks and charcoal. I am not nearly good enough at this that I can rush it and expect to produce anything other than crap.<\/p>\n<p>One of the great masters of the political cartoon art form British cartoonist <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Low_%28cartoonist%29\">David Low<\/a>, once said each of his cartoons took three days, &#8220;two days in labor, and one day removing the appearance of labor.&#8221; Mine take about that long, mostly because I spend a ton of time redrawing and correcting. But I can&#8217;t put in full days on a cartoon like a full time professional artist can, so I need to have about a week to do one and that&#8217;s really putting it behind events for something that&#8217;s supposed to be as topical as a political cartoon. I&#8217;m doing something about an event that happened earlier this week that won&#8217;t appear in the newspaper until next Friday. Hopefully it&#8217;s good enough that it won&#8217;t matter too much that it&#8217;s old news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pencils done on the cartoon for the next issue of OUTLoud&#8230;finally. With enough time left over to spend the rest of this lovely day inside carefully doing the inks and charcoal. I am not nearly good enough at this that I can rush it and expect to produce anything other than crap. One of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-7395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","tag-cartooning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}