{"id":3858,"date":"2016-03-16T12:17:08","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T17:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendymartinillustration.com\/wordpress\/?p=3858"},"modified":"2016-03-16T12:17:08","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T17:17:08","slug":"1-hour-study-water-brook-woody-glade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendymartinillustration.com\/wordpress\/1-hour-study-water-brook-woody-glade\/","title":{"rendered":"1 hour study water &#8211; brook in a woody glade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1 hour study water for today. Practicing with new Photoshop brushes. Doing my best to learn how to portray various textures in a realistic manner. This stuff is hard.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been setting a time limit of an hour with these studies. Because of that and my unfamiliarity with digital painting, combined with the years I spent pursuing a simplified style for children&#8217;s book, these images look very unfinished.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not going to let myself give up in frustration, but wanting to be at a higher level of competence than what I&#8217;m producing in these studies is giving my ego a good beating.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the only way to get better is to just do the studies. A lot. Over and over.<\/p>\n<p>Meh.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wendymartinillustration.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/creek1-hrstudy.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3859\"><img data-attachment-id=\"3859\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.wendymartinillustration.com\/wordpress\/1-hour-study-water-brook-woody-glade\/creek1-hrstudy\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.wendymartinillustration.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/creek1-hrstudy.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1656,638\" 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=\"1 hour study water\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.wendymartinillustration.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/creek1-hrstudy-300x116.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.wendymartinillustration.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/creek1-hrstudy-1024x395.jpg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3859\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wendymartinillustration.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/creek1-hrstudy-300x116.jpg\" alt=\"1 hour study water\" width=\"300\" height=\"116\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendymartinillustration.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/creek1-hrstudy-300x116.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wendymartinillustration.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/creek1-hrstudy-75x29.jpg 75w, https:\/\/www.wendymartinillustration.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/creek1-hrstudy-768x296.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wendymartinillustration.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/creek1-hrstudy-1024x395.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wendymartinillustration.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/creek1-hrstudy-1200x462.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.wendymartinillustration.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/creek1-hrstudy-400x154.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.wendymartinillustration.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/creek1-hrstudy.jpg 1656w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 hour study water for today. Practicing with new Photoshop brushes. Doing my best to learn how to portray various textures in a realistic manner. This stuff is hard. I&#8217;ve been setting a time limit of an hour with these studies. Because of that and my unfamiliarity with digital painting, combined with the years I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[620,6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>1 hour study water - brook in a woody glade -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendymartinillustration.com\/wordpress\/1-hour-study-water-brook-woody-glade\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"1 hour study water - brook in a woody glade -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"1 hour study water for today. 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