{"id":40721,"date":"2023-06-06T07:11:24","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T11:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=40721"},"modified":"2023-06-06T07:11:24","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T11:11:24","slug":"go-big-or-go-home-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2023\/06\/06\/go-big-or-go-home-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Go Big or Go Home!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nI think I am finally reaching the limits of the tiny sketchpads I have been favoring over the past few years. I bought some heavyweight, toned, mixed media paper that I want to play with, and I thought something dynamic like a battle between monsters would be the subject matter. Roughing out some dynamic figures called for more real estate than my cheap, little sketchbook had to offer so I found myself dragging out larger pads along with a fairly old roll of tracing paper. I trace the bits of my own drawings that I like and redraw bits I don’t like. Ultimately this composition may be done on several scraps of vellum and taped together into a larger piece of paper. From there, I will work on my final.<\/p>\n

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Layers of tracing paper<\/p><\/div>\n

Stay tuned!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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