{"id":237,"date":"2012-08-16T20:00:06","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T03:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/?p=237"},"modified":"2020-01-18T08:33:11","modified_gmt":"2020-01-18T16:33:11","slug":"ink-doodles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/archives\/2012\/08\/16\/ink-doodles\/","title":{"rendered":"Ink doodles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I started drawing again a few months ago, this time using ink and no pencil, which is mostly new and unusual for me. A significant motivating factor probably was my usual, futile desire to eventually become good enough to impress someone who likely would never care anyway.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/images\/art\/analog\/jdl-20120521.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/images\/art\/analog\/jdl-20120521.th.png\" alt=\"Ink doodles thumbnail\" width=\"250\" height=\"285\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Done with a Pilot G-2 0.5mm gel pen. (I hadn&#8217;t yet acquired the impressive <a class=\"unemphasized\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jetpens.com\/articles\/Pilot_Hi-Tec-C_Pens\">Pilot Hi-Tec-C pen<\/a> that I kept reading <a class=\"unemphasized\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/cwandt\/pen-type-a-a-minimal-pen\">about<\/a> <a class=\"unemphasized\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/karaskustoms\/render-k-a-custom-machined-pen\">from<\/a> <a class=\"unemphasized\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/klinkokids\/phx-pen\">various<\/a> <a class=\"unemphasized\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/eimim\/eimim-pen\">Kickstarter<\/a> <a class=\"unemphasized\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/mikebond\/ti2-pen\">projects<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started drawing again a few months ago, this time using ink and no pencil, which is mostly new and unusual for me. A significant motivating factor probably was my usual, futile desire to eventually become good enough to impress someone who likely would never care anyway. Done with a Pilot G-2 0.5mm gel pen. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[15,17,19],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","tag-dragons","tag-ink","tag-lettering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}