[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-life-drawing":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Stuart doesn't really like posing for drawings, but he said it was okay if I drew him while he took a nap. I would've spent more time on it, but then his head lolled round to the other side, so that was that.\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/stusleep-72f3480b61.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nOn Friday I went with \u003Ca href=\"http://tozocomic.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">tozocomic\u003C/a> to see \u003Cb>Quentin Blake\u003C/b> give a talk and slideshow at the \u003Cb>Institut Français\u003C/b> as part of their \u003Ca href=\"http://www.institut-francais.org.uk/talks/conference/youth-festival-2009.html\">Youth Festival\u003C/a>. Before the talk, we were browsing in the comics section of their library and I found this book with lovely pencil and tonal work and wanted to try getting the same effect in Photoshop. (\u003Cb>Andrew Wildman\u003C/b> - of the DFC's \u003Ca href=\"http://www.thedfc.co.uk/writers-artists/andrewwildman/\">Frontier\u003C/a> - tipped me off how to do it.)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/michel_cover-bfc80fc3cd.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nOne more thing, last night I had home-made pasta for the first time ever! I got all excited and took pictures of Skip cranking it out on his shiny cool machine. And here I am modelling just how long the noodles were. Skip says they're not actually that long, that he will make them even longer next time, which is something to think about.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/skipspag-3bc8ebbbad.jpg\">","2009-02-08T17:25:00.000Z","life-drawing",[],"life drawing",1776628728316]