{"id":546,"date":"2016-09-07T15:57:07","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T15:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.craigtaillefer.com\/?p=546"},"modified":"2016-09-07T15:57:07","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T15:57:07","slug":"life-drawing-the-rooster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.craigtaillefer.com\/wordpress\/2016\/09\/07\/life-drawing-the-rooster\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Drawing @ The Rooster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last time I attended Life Drawing was a multi-week session at the Ottawa School Of Art. I had just started working for WaRP Graphics inking ElfQuest: The Hidden Years (I&#8217;ll let somebody else do the math!) and I had to drop out of the session because of time crunch and deadlines.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been wanting to do it ever since, but could never commit to a long multi-week session.<\/p>\n<p>I finally found a couple of monthly drop in sessions and finally made it to one last night. It was a clothed model session at The Atomic Rooster.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t used a pencil (or any non-digital art tool) outside of scribbling stick figure layouts in the margins of a script in about 8 years. I felt like a monkey with a burnt stick.<\/p>\n<p>Frustrations aside, I&#8217;m looking forward to the next one.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"547\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.craigtaillefer.com\/wordpress\/2016\/09\/07\/life-drawing-the-rooster\/lifedrawingdatr_sep6-2016\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.craigtaillefer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/LifeDrawingDATR_Sep6-2016.jpg?fit=764%2C1045&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"764,1045\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"LifeDrawingDATR_Sep6-2016\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.craigtaillefer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/LifeDrawingDATR_Sep6-2016.jpg?fit=749%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-547\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.craigtaillefer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/LifeDrawingDATR_Sep6-2016.jpg?resize=219%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"LifeDrawingDATR_Sep6-2016\" width=\"219\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.craigtaillefer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/LifeDrawingDATR_Sep6-2016.jpg?resize=219%2C300&amp;ssl=1 219w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.craigtaillefer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/LifeDrawingDATR_Sep6-2016.jpg?resize=110%2C150&amp;ssl=1 110w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.craigtaillefer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/LifeDrawingDATR_Sep6-2016.jpg?resize=749%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 749w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.craigtaillefer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/LifeDrawingDATR_Sep6-2016.jpg?w=764&amp;ssl=1 764w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last time I attended Life Drawing was a multi-week session at the Ottawa School Of Art. I had just started working for WaRP Graphics inking ElfQuest: The Hidden Years (I&#8217;ll let somebody else do the math!) and I had to drop out of the session because of time crunch and deadlines. I&#8217;ve been wanting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8mGah-8O","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigtaillefer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigtaillefer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigtaillefer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigtaillefer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigtaillefer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigtaillefer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":548,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigtaillefer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions\/548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigtaillefer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigtaillefer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigtaillefer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}