{"id":89,"date":"2006-03-04T14:32:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-04T21:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stevenheld.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/04\/clawing-out-my-sketches\/"},"modified":"2006-03-04T14:32:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-04T21:32:00","slug":"clawing-out-my-sketches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stevenheld.com\/blog\/clawing-out-my-sketches\/","title":{"rendered":"Clawing Out My Sketches"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my last post<\/a> I took you through my initial idea stage and posted my early sketches. I left off by asking if “You’re thinking what I’m thinking.”<\/p>\n

So what is that cowboy thinking? Of putting that crawfish in a nice warm pot of course!\"\"<\/a> The first time I drew the crawfish, he looked too smug. He needed something else, something that would balance his happiness. Aha! I sketched in a beer mug. Yes! This is great!<\/p>\n

Also my first hitchhiker<\/a> looks a little too happy. If he were actually cold, he wouldn’t have a big grin on his face. It also doesn’t make sense for him to be as happy as the guy in the pot. So I drew another more depressed looking crawfish.<\/p>\n

Now normally I have to come up with a number of different ideas to arrive at a finished conglomeration but this sheet of sketches seems to be coming along quite well.<\/p>\n

However, looking at the entire sheet of sketches all I could see was a huge mess! Time to go through the process of cleaning things up and redesigning parts.<\/p>\n

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My first order of business…. GUILLOTINE! Yes that’s right Mr. Cowboy, you just aren’t working over there. Boot to the head<\/a>! I redrew this part moving Mr. Cowboy and Joe Schmo’s heads to the other side and redesigned the car a bit.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Then I scanned all my sketches into my computer so I could work with them in Photoshop and Illustrator. Now if I had a tablet PC<\/a> I could’ve skipped this step entirely and drawn all this out on my computer screen. Maybe someone out there would like to donate or buy me a gift for my birthday?<\/p>\n

In my next post I’ll show you how I cleaned the images up and put them together for the final design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In my last post I took you through my initial idea stage and posted my early sketches. I left off by asking if “You’re thinking what I’m thinking.” So what is that cowboy thinking? Of putting that crawfish in a nice warm pot of course! The first time I drew the crawfish, he looked too […]<\/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-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenheld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenheld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenheld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenheld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenheld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenheld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenheld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenheld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenheld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}