{"id":15277,"date":"2014-06-24T07:41:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T11:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2014\/06\/24\/an-uneasy-relationship\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:50:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:50:36","slug":"an-uneasy-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2014\/06\/24\/an-uneasy-relationship\/","title":{"rendered":"An uneasy relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u0085with drawing, that is. I <em>think<\/em> it\u0092s good that I\u0092m doing this drawing practice, but there\u0092s a queasy feeling to drawing subjects I don\u0092t have an attachment to. I already struggle with the idea of how hard I should be working at this \u0097 whether it\u0092s okay to go on instinct or if I should be dismantling everything and learning from first principles how to compose a scene, etc. Am I lazy, or am I being true to my style?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>I don\u0092t want to draw the same thing over and over again from different angles. That feels like a waste of time. I could be learning all kinds of academic principles, yet to a certain degree every new drawing requires starting from scratch \u0097 unless you\u0092re using learned techniques to crank out the same tree-lake-mountain-sunset picture over and over again.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>I dunno. I guess the whole exercise here is not to think or question, but just <em>do the work<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<figure class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-8992\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1430\/photo-20140624104034-am.jpg.webp\" alt=\"Photo 20140624104034 am\" width=\"1024\" height=\"636\"><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u0085with drawing, that is. I think it\u0092s good that I\u0092m doing this drawing practice, but there\u0092s a queasy feeling to drawing subjects I don\u0092t have an attachment to. I already struggle with the idea of how hard I should be working at this \u0097 whether it\u0092s okay to go on instinct or if I should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}