{"id":4239,"date":"2010-07-14T22:29:32","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T14:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/?p=4239"},"modified":"2010-07-14T22:32:02","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T14:32:02","slug":"batman-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2010\/07\/14\/batman-cat\/","title":{"rendered":"Batman… cat!"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a cat in the neighbourhood with some very distinctive markings. I call him “Batman”. Fittingly, he tends to hide in shadows while stalking our cat, Bruce.<\/p>\n

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Since Mao<\/a> passed away, I’ve been slowly working on a children’s book about her. I’ve written the text, but I really need to improve at drawing cats in order to hit the level of quality I hope to achieve for the illustrations.<\/p>\n

I feel that I’m making progress, but I’m not there yet. At the moment, I’m focussing on learning shape and texture by sketching in greyscale. I want the final illustrations to be more stylised and simplistic (and colourful obviously!)<\/p>\n

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I tend not to use commercial software (I don’t have Photoshop or Painter). So I’ve been using MyPaint<\/a>, an open source painting program with a great range of brushes and an “infinite” canvas. (There’s a good introduction here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

It’s taking a while to learn the ins and outs of the MyPaint, but I can see a lot of potential in it. I get the feeling that I need to: find a set of brushes that I like; and work out how\/if I want to use layers. Aside from that it’s all practise I suppose.<\/p>\n

Hopefully, my time at the cat sanctuary in Langkawi<\/a> will help me improve quickly. I probably won’t have a tablet and PC with me, but I will have a sketchbook!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s a cat in the neighbourhood with some very distinctive markings. I call him “Batman”. Fittingly, he tends to hide in shadows while stalking our cat, Bruce. Since Mao passed away, I’ve been slowly working on a children’s book about her. I’ve written the text, but I really need to improve at drawing cats in … Continue reading “Batman… cat!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paLsRH-16n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4239"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4257,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4239\/revisions\/4257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}