{"id":1304,"date":"2009-01-30T09:05:56","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T19:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/?p=1304"},"modified":"2009-01-30T09:09:55","modified_gmt":"2009-01-30T19:09:55","slug":"daily-figure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/daily-figure\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Figure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailyfigure.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1303\" title=\"gestural\" src=\"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/gestural.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"404\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/gestural.jpg 404w, https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/gestural-241x300.jpg 241w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 404px) 100vw, 404px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I stumbled across this site today, aptly named <a href=\"http:\/\/dailyfigure.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Daily Figure&#8221;<\/a> where this artist posts&#8230; err&#8230;.a daily figure each day.\u00a0 Pretty nice&#8230;it certainly reminds me of the early gestural drawings we had to practice in art classes.\u00a0 If you&#8217;ve never taken an art class before&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/drawsketch.about.com\/od\/drawinglessonsandtips\/ss\/gesturaldrawing.htm\" target=\"_blank\">gestural art<\/a> is the practice of just using lines and quick strokes to capture the motion of the object you&#8217;re drawing.\u00a0 Often we were told not to look at our paper but just concentrate on the figure and just let our pencils do the work.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, these figures are beautiful.\u00a0 Especially if he&#8217;s just doing it straight up without any reference models. I envy folks who can do body poses and expressions, it&#8217;s always been my area of weakness.<\/p>\n<p>This gestural drawing exercise wasn&#8217;t half as hard when you were a young college student staring at a nude lady in class.\u00a0 Trust me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stumbled across this site today, aptly named &#8220;The Daily Figure&#8221; where this artist posts&#8230; err&#8230;.a daily figure each day.\u00a0 Pretty nice&#8230;it certainly reminds me of the early gestural drawings we had to practice in art classes.\u00a0 If you&#8217;ve never taken an art class before&#8230;gestural art is the practice of just using lines and quick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[334,150,151],"class_list":["post-1304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","tag-art","tag-figure","tag-gestural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1304"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1306,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304\/revisions\/1306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}