[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-nerd-paint-tips":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"I've been working hard painting a picture book, and I've started posting occasional painting tips, techniques that come to mind while I encounter them in my own work. I tweet them with the hash tag \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23nerdpainttips&src=typd\">#NerdPaintTips\u003C/a>. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/nerd_paint_tips_lolly_zps512fa19f-892011b5b8.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n'How to paint an iced lolly' was a request from \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JonathanLHoward\">Jonathan L. Howard\u003C/a> and \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/worldofagwu\">Martin Hand\u003C/a>, after I'd posted this little tutorial:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/nerd_paint_tips1_zps7f0e61b6-7c1bb335a6.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nOften when I'm working on a big complicated picture, I start to lose perspective on it and, in a way, forget the basics of drawing. It can really help to back away and draw something else, something silly, or something with a loose line. Something that doesn't matter how it turns out, and no one's told me to do it, so it doesn't feel like an assignment. Here's a loose self-portrait, that only looks a little bit like me:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/sketch_selfportrait_zpsa199b744-1d7f315bd8.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd I tweeted that I'd draw the next person who tweeted their photo at me. Here's \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Ally_Nuttall\">Alice Nuttall\u003C/a>:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/sketch_alice_zps255c538b-fa87c00832.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd one more, for \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gilliancross\">Gillian Cross\u003C/a>: \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/sketch_gillian_zps726b953e-c36a0b0192.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nThat was fun. :)","2014-08-13T06:57:00.000Z","nerd-paint-tips",[],"nerd paint tips",1776628726733]