![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/najin.x10.mx\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/ughclose.jpg?resize=500%2C360\" "\\"Pearl")
<\/a>Pearl Closeup<\/p><\/div>\n
It’s 4:30 am and I’m ready to collapse.
\nWhat was meant to be a brief sketch morphed into a full blown painting session. Clearly, it’s difficult for me to stop working on something once I’ve started :p.
\nAnyway, this could have developed much more if I spent more than one session on it. There are several things that still bug me about this painting:<\/p>\n
If I had time to revise, I would probably redefine her shoulderblades, tweak the shape of her face (upon an insightful suggestion–thank you, Young!) and render some more colours.
\nHowever, I’m relatively satisfied with the results since I didn’t use any references (yes–her succulent curves are but a figment of my imagination). I also tried texturizing for the first time and am keen to try again. Her tushy looks nice with a little more grit to it, no?<\/p>\n
Anyway, TIME FOR BED! Have a great week, everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It’s 4:30 am and I’m ready to collapse. What was meant to be a brief sketch morphed into a full blown painting session. Clearly, it’s difficult for me to stop working on something once I’ve started :p. Anyway, this could have developed much more if I spent more than one session on it. There are...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":533,"comment_status":"closed","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_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":[64,1949],"tags":[521,209,406,53,619,24],"class_list":["post-509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-illustration","category-people-paintings","tag-a","tag-imagination","tag-my","tag-painting","tag-sketch","tag-time"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/ughclose.jpg?fit=500%2C360","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s3qg3D-pearl","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/najin.x10.mx\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/pearlversion2.jpg?resize=493%2C633\" "\\"Pearl")
<\/a>