{"id":165,"date":"2011-02-04T23:09:31","date_gmt":"2011-02-05T05:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rickspicscorner.com\/blog\/?p=165"},"modified":"2012-07-02T23:18:28","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T04:18:28","slug":"more-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/more-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"More Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We got some ice in Houston overnight.\u00a0 As this city rarely sees wintery weather, it is ill-equipped to handle it.\u00a0 As such, the city pretty much shuts down and people generally stay home.\u00a0 If the city planned a little better, maybe shutting down wouldn&#8217;t have had to have been an option&#8230;\u00a0\u00a0 Let&#8217;s get back to the subject at hand.<\/p>\n<p>I realized today that I needed some more practice with the mixer brush if I was going to get some good results on my digital project.\u00a0 So, that&#8217;s what I did today and I ended up with this:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_166\" style=\"width: 172px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Shading-Experiment-1.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-166\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-166\" title=\"Shading Experiment 1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Shading-Experiment-1-162x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"162\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Shading-Experiment-1-162x300.jpg 162w, https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Shading-Experiment-1-553x1024.jpg 553w, https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Shading-Experiment-1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 162px) 100vw, 162px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-166\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click Image to Enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ok, I&#8217;m going to toot my own horn here and say that this is probably one of the most sophisticated pieces I&#8217;ve produced using Photoshop (aside from some logos I did a few years ago).\u00a0 I got some elements of highlight and shadow, along with some shading.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t pay too much attention to elements of composition and concentrated more on the use of the mixer brush.\u00a0 I think I may be getting on to something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We got some ice in Houston overnight.\u00a0 As this city rarely sees wintery weather, it is ill-equipped to handle it.\u00a0 As such, the city pretty much shuts down and people generally stay home.\u00a0 If the city planned a little better, maybe shutting down wouldn&#8217;t have had to have been an option&#8230;\u00a0\u00a0 Let&#8217;s get back to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":429,"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}