{"id":919,"date":"2020-03-01T19:51:14","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T03:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/?p=919"},"modified":"2020-03-02T00:01:41","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T08:01:41","slug":"ink-doodles-2014-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/archives\/2020\/03\/01\/ink-doodles-2014-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Ink doodles (2014&#8211;2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More ink doodles from 2014 through 2018. These were done with a Pilot G-2 0.38mm gel pen.  While I like how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taenarum.com\/images\/Hi-Tec-C-025.jpg\">I can make tiny writing<\/a> with Pilot Hi-Tec C pens, I find the G-2 0.38mm pens to be more practical: they create lines fine enough for my taste, but they&#8217;re not so fine that I have issues with the tips clogging. It also helps that they&#8217;re easier to find in typical office supply stores and are cheaper.<\/p>\n<p>I do like using ink, but I&#8217;m even more conservative drawing in it (i.e., I draw even more disembodied heads than usual). (Maybe someday I&#8217;ll get a knack for inking over pencil.) Beyond the typically similar content, I noticed that I unintentionally used much of the same layout in these two sheets for the placement of dragon heads, orc heads, smoke, and background practice.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/images\/art\/analog\/jdl-20140630.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/images\/art\/analog\/jdl-20140630.th.png\" alt=\"Ink doodles (2014) thumbnail\" width=\"255\" height=\"330\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/images\/art\/analog\/jdl-20170411.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/images\/art\/analog\/jdl-20170411.th.png\" alt=\"Ink doodles (2017) thumbnail\" width=\"255\" height=\"330\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More ink doodles from 2014 through 2018. These were done with a Pilot G-2 0.38mm gel pen. While I like how I can make tiny writing with Pilot Hi-Tec C pens, I find the G-2 0.38mm pens to be more practical: they create lines fine enough for my taste, but they&#8217;re not so fine that [&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":[15,17,19,40],"class_list":["post-919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","tag-dragons","tag-ink","tag-lettering","tag-zentangle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919","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=919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}