[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-riverside-morning-sketch":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"For years now I've been hugely attracted to this rusty old crane on the south bank. I think it looks marvellous, and I love how it has this roof troll thingie sitting right behind it. So I finally got around to making a first sketch.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/rotherhithe_crane-e489527c77.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI'm not at all happy with the drawing, and I didn't give it enough time, but that's kind of the way with first sketches for me. It's like a first date, when you don't really know the person, but you're asking lots of questions and exclaiming over the cool things you find out about them. So I was feeling my way with my pen around this big hunk o' metal and getting to know it. The photo still looks cooler than the drawing, but I hope I can keep meeting up with it and at some point get a really good picture. Or it might work its way into a book. But right now we're only at the hand holding stage.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/crane1-d6853d4897.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nOkay, I am an anorak, yes.","2011-06-17T12:35:00.000Z","riverside-morning-sketch",[],"riverside morning sketch",1776628720369]