{"id":60,"date":"2023-08-12T19:55:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-13T00:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sydneycarterdraws.com\/blog\/?p=60"},"modified":"2025-07-23T20:49:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T01:49:28","slug":"duck-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sydneycarterdraws.com\/blog\/duck-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Duck Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"776\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"63\" src=\"https:\/\/sydneycarterdraws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/parkwarmup800-776x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-63\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sydneycarterdraws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/parkwarmup800-776x1024.jpg 776w, https:\/\/sydneycarterdraws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/parkwarmup800-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/sydneycarterdraws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/parkwarmup800-768x1014.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sydneycarterdraws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/parkwarmup800.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 776px) 100vw, 776px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"1004\" data-id=\"64\" src=\"https:\/\/sydneycarterdraws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/parkpond800.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-64\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sydneycarterdraws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/parkpond800.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sydneycarterdraws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/parkpond800-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/sydneycarterdraws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/parkpond800-768x964.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"1018\" data-id=\"65\" src=\"https:\/\/sydneycarterdraws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ducks800.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-65\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sydneycarterdraws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ducks800.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sydneycarterdraws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ducks800-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/sydneycarterdraws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ducks800-768x977.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I went to the park last weekend with a buddy, our sketchbooks, and some pencils. The outing ended up as a duck drawing study. As a kid I spent a lot of time drawing pets &#8211; a bunny my grandmother gave me, and a dog when I was a little older. Now that I don&#8217;t have any pets, I felt energized drawing animals outside. The sketches were not glamorous, but they&#8217;re good practice for understanding the proportions. After a while, a few small children were feeding the ducks and birds started crowding around our drawing spot, so we walked to another area along the pond. This time, I focused on drawing the landscape of the park. For most of the landscape I ended up tilting the pencil and using the shading side of the lead, instead of emphasizing crisp lines with the point, and it felt like painting with graphite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to the park last weekend with a buddy, our sketchbooks, and some pencils. The outing ended up as a duck drawing study. As a kid I spent a lot of time drawing pets &#8211; a bunny my grandmother gave me, and a dog when I was a little older. Now that I don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sydneycarterdraws.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sydneycarterdraws.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sydneycarterdraws.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sydneycarterdraws.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sydneycarterdraws.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sydneycarterdraws.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66,"href":"https:\/\/sydneycarterdraws.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sydneycarterdraws.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sydneycarterdraws.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sydneycarterdraws.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}