{"id":40294,"date":"2023-03-22T07:09:41","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T11:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=40294"},"modified":"2023-03-22T07:09:41","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T11:09:41","slug":"confessions-of-a-sofa-sketcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2023\/03\/22\/confessions-of-a-sofa-sketcher\/","title":{"rendered":"Confessions of a Sofa Sketcher"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Wolf <\/a>
Wolf in Nice Threads <\/div> <\/div>
\"Manufactured <\/a>
Manufactured in Germany <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Vampire <\/a>
Vampire Lady <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Zombie <\/a>
Zombie Quartet <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n

I sit on a couch with a cat and a spouse scribbling my graphite grotesques into the night.
\nSome of them are good. Some of them stink. Some of them I do in pen and ink.<\/p>\n

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I sit on a couch with a cat and a spouse scribbling my graphite grotesques into the night. Some of them are good. Some of them stink. Some of them I do in pen and ink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,49],"tags":[158,310,907,76,3661,5,391,4971,3663,25,5116,480],"class_list":["post-40294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illustration","category-it-came-from-the-sketchbook","tag-analog","tag-doodle","tag-drawing","tag-horror","tag-illustration","tag-joe-williams","tag-monsters","tag-scribble","tag-sketch","tag-sketchbook","tag-sofa","tag-usa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-atU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":40251,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2023\/03\/15\/sketchbook-gruesome-graphite-grotesques\/","url_meta":{"origin":40294,"position":0},"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 "It Came From the Sketchbook"","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":39669,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/12\/13\/more-monsters-in-a-cheap-sketchbook\/","url_meta":{"origin":40294,"position":1},"title":"More Monsters in a Cheap Sketchbook","author":"Joe","date":"December 13, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been drawing monsters in front of the TV set for as long as I can remember, and it seems the trend continues as of late as I finish my evenings watching trash television and doodling in a cheap sketchbook.","rel":"","context":"In "Doodle Tuesday"","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\/2022\/12\/BANG.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/BANG.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/BANG.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":36269,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2021\/07\/21\/sofa-sketches-and-an-obscure-remake\/","url_meta":{"origin":40294,"position":2},"title":"Sofa Sketches and an Obscure Remake","author":"Joe","date":"July 21, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been sitting on the sofa with a sketchbook in my lap trying out some of my new art materials and playing around with a few I forgot I had. 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