{"id":22141,"date":"2017-04-15T10:31:23","date_gmt":"2017-04-15T14:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=22141"},"modified":"2017-04-15T10:31:23","modified_gmt":"2017-04-15T14:31:23","slug":"swing-and-a-miss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2017\/04\/15\/swing-and-a-miss\/","title":{"rendered":"Swing and a Miss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"deadly blow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/33893718752\/in\/dateposted\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c1.staticflickr.com\/3\/2940\/33893718752_55a53cd910_z.jpg?resize=578%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"deadly blow\" width=\"578\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>Here is another doodle with <em>Derwent Dark Wash<\/em> pencils. This one was done in a <em>Canson XL Mix Media<\/em> pad which I will be <a href=\"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2017\/03\/21\/in-japan-the-hand-can-be-used-like-a-knife\/\" target=\"_blank\">using regularly<\/a> just as soon as the <a href=\"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2017\/02\/23\/the-sketchbook-from-heaven\/\" target=\"_blank\">S<em>ketchbook from Heaven<\/em><\/a> is exhausted which I&#8217;m sad to say will be soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is another doodle with Derwent Dark Wash pencils. This one was done in a Canson XL Mix Media pad which I will be using regularly just as soon as the Sketchbook from Heaven is exhausted which I&#8217;m sad to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2017\/04\/15\/swing-and-a-miss\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[49,16],"tags":[158,4057,988,17,8,312,726,9,20,3661,5,4081,3663,25,480,3660],"class_list":["post-22141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-came-from-the-sketchbook","category-sketch","tag-analog","tag-atomic-warrior","tag-black-and-white","tag-cartoon","tag-cartoons","tag-comic","tag-comic-book","tag-comics","tag-handmade","tag-illustration","tag-joe-williams","tag-pink-zeppelin","tag-sketch","tag-sketchbook","tag-usa","tag-willceau"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-5L7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":40462,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2023\/04\/18\/hacking-away-at-a-cheap-sketchbook\/","url_meta":{"origin":22141,"position":0},"title":"Hacking Away at a Cheap Sketchbook","author":"Joe","date":"April 18, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"I continue to throw graphite at the unwilling little sketchbook of which I have written about lately. I've had no evidence of anything close to supernatural brilliance bubbling up from the pad's cheap little pages, but I continue to make a go of it. I'm using it as a sketchbook\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Doodle Tuesday&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Doodle Tuesday","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/it-came-from-the-sketchbook\/doodle-tuesday\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Get-the-point.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Get-the-point.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Get-the-point.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":40251,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2023\/03\/15\/sketchbook-gruesome-graphite-grotesques\/","url_meta":{"origin":22141,"position":1},"title":"Sketchbook \u2022 Gruesome Graphite Grotesques","author":"Joe","date":"March 15, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"I sit on a couch with a cat and a spouse scribbling graphite grotesques into the night.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;It Came From the Sketchbook&quot;","block_context":{"text":"It Came From the Sketchbook","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/it-came-from-the-sketchbook\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/werewolf-bite.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":20187,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/12\/31\/the-creep\/","url_meta":{"origin":22141,"position":2},"title":"The Creep","author":"Joe","date":"December 31, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Fiddling around a bit with a quick little sketch which I brought into Affinity Photo. I scanned the sketch below; turned it grayscale; played with the levels a bit to darken it up and threw a bit of digital color around with a Wacom tablet. I like this technique and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Illustration&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Illustration","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/illustration\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Creep-sketch.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Creep-sketch.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Creep-sketch.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":22204,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2017\/05\/04\/going-going\/","url_meta":{"origin":22141,"position":3},"title":"Going&#8230;going&#8230;","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"May 4, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"The Sketchbook from Heaven is fading fast. I only have a couple of blank pages left as of this writing. I'll soon be moving on to the sketchbook I cleaved in two in order to approximate the aspect ratio of my soon-to-be completed pad. Hopefully the new sketchbook will be\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;It Came From the Sketchbook&quot;","block_context":{"text":"It Came From the Sketchbook","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/it-came-from-the-sketchbook\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/White-Heat.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":39653,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/12\/07\/it-came-from-the-sketchbook-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":22141,"position":4},"title":"It Came From The Sketchbook","author":"Joe","date":"December 7, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"I continue to roll along with the Out of This World sketchbook attacking it with 2mm leads and various pencils on a daily basis. I don't know what I'm going to do once I've exhausted this $3 sketchpad's 125 sheets. I've been trawling the shelves of local Target stores looking\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;It Came From the Sketchbook&quot;","block_context":{"text":"It Came From the Sketchbook","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/it-came-from-the-sketchbook\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/it-came-from-the-SB-banner.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/it-came-from-the-SB-banner.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/it-came-from-the-SB-banner.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/it-came-from-the-SB-banner.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":7708,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/05\/06\/sleepy-sunday\/","url_meta":{"origin":22141,"position":5},"title":"Sleepy Sunday","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"May 6, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Tina and I are working on finishing up Chapter 2 of Monkey & Bird. 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