{"id":168,"date":"2008-05-13T15:15:27","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T15:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hip97.com\/wp\/?p=168"},"modified":"2012-10-31T23:11:35","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T15:11:35","slug":"a-slice-of-drafts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/2008\/05\/13\/a-slice-of-drafts\/","title":{"rendered":"A slice of drafts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/404.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been doing some sketches and drafts for a book cover illustration for my friend, which I am showing here. These were all rejected ones, hence I can share them with you! <\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/403.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/402.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The process was definitely fun for me. This was the first time I actually attempted something like this, which a big thing, because I am not a professional illustrator. Quite a lot of people have asked me whether I am an illustrator or an artist, and I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve quite reached that stage yet. I&#8217;m still figuring out my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.remakeables.com\/illustration\">own style<\/a> and hoping to see it solidify as I progress, before I can firmly say that I am either. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to be drawing up another set, and hopefully if it gets published, I&#8217;ll be able to share them with you all!<\/p>\n<p>One thing I did learn was that constant practice is essential to get ahead, and it&#8217;s something that I keep repeating to myself everyday. A good yardstick that I measure myself with is my bird drawings. They seem more organic and less forced the more I worked on them! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>+ Here&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shauntan.net\/essay2.html\">interesting article<\/a> by Shaun Tan about the creative process, and the question of what originality is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> &#8230; <a title=\"A slice of drafts\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/2008\/05\/13\/a-slice-of-drafts\/\" aria-label=\"More on A slice of drafts\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_generate-full-width-content":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28246,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions\/28246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}