{"id":510,"date":"2012-03-23T20:10:11","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T00:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darrenbrant.com\/?p=510"},"modified":"2025-06-27T13:59:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T17:59:28","slug":"daily-scribble-march-19-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darrenbrant.com\/?p=510","title":{"rendered":"Daily Scribble March 19-22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally got Corel Painter 12 to install properly on my machine this week. I don&#8217;t think it liked my Corel Painter Sketchpad; un-installed it and everything went well.<\/p>\n<p>To try out my new toy I dashed off a few quick figure sketches of my artist&#8217;s mannequin.<\/p>\n<p>Still not quite used to the digital art medium. More practice required.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_507\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-507\" style=\"width: 371px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.darrenbrant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/artist_maniquin_3_12-1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"507\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.darrenbrant.com\/?attachment_id=507\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.darrenbrant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/artist_maniquin_3_12-1.jpg?fit=371%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"371,480\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Picasa&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1332463197&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=\"artist_mannequin_3_12-1\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sketch of my artist mannequin using the Soft Conte tool&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Using the Soft Conte tool&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.darrenbrant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/artist_maniquin_3_12-1.jpg?fit=232%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.darrenbrant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/artist_maniquin_3_12-1.jpg?fit=371%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-507\" title=\"artist_mannequin_3_12-1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.darrenbrant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/artist_maniquin_3_12-1.jpg?resize=371%2C480\" alt=\"artist mannequin 3_12-1\" width=\"371\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.darrenbrant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/artist_maniquin_3_12-1.jpg?w=371&amp;ssl=1 371w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.darrenbrant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/artist_maniquin_3_12-1.jpg?resize=232%2C300&amp;ssl=1 232w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.darrenbrant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/artist_maniquin_3_12-1.jpg?resize=300%2C388&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 371px) 100vw, 371px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-507\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Using the Soft Conte tool<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.darrenbrant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/artist_maniquin_3_12-2.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"508\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.darrenbrant.com\/?attachment_id=508\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.darrenbrant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/artist_maniquin_3_12-2.jpg?fit=371%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"371,480\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Picasa&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1332463177&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=\"artist_mannequin_3_12-2\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;mannequin&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.darrenbrant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/artist_maniquin_3_12-2.jpg?fit=232%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.darrenbrant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/artist_maniquin_3_12-2.jpg?fit=371%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-508\" title=\"artist_mannequin_3_12-2\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.darrenbrant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/artist_maniquin_3_12-2.jpg?resize=371%2C480\" alt=\"artist mannequin 3_12-2\" width=\"371\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.darrenbrant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/artist_maniquin_3_12-2.jpg?w=371&amp;ssl=1 371w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.darrenbrant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/artist_maniquin_3_12-2.jpg?resize=232%2C300&amp;ssl=1 232w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.darrenbrant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/artist_maniquin_3_12-2.jpg?resize=300%2C388&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 371px) 100vw, 371px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_509\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-509\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.darrenbrant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/recline-fig.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"509\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.darrenbrant.com\/?attachment_id=509\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.darrenbrant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/recline-fig.jpg?fit=480%2C270&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"480,270\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Picasa&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1332463209&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=\"recline fig\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Reclineing Figure&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Reclineing Figure&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.darrenbrant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/recline-fig.jpg?fit=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.darrenbrant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/recline-fig.jpg?fit=480%2C270&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-509 \" title=\"recline fig\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.darrenbrant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/recline-fig.jpg?resize=480%2C270\" alt=\"Reclining Figure\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.darrenbrant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/recline-fig.jpg?w=480&amp;ssl=1 480w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.darrenbrant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/recline-fig.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-509\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reclining Figure<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally got Corel Painter 12 to install properly on my machine this week. I don&#8217;t think it liked my Corel Painter Sketchpad; un-installed it and everything went well. To try out my new toy I dashed off a few quick figure sketches of my artist&#8217;s mannequin. Still not quite used to the digital art [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26,20,6,7],"tags":[8,25,11,16,10,24],"class_list":["post-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art_blog","category-being_an_artist","category-drawing","category-practice","tag-figure-drawing","tag-intuos4","tag-lunch-scribble","tag-practice-2","tag-sketch","tag-wacom"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.darrenbrant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/artist_maniquin_3_12-1.jpg?fit=371%2C480&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pUgG3-8e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":526,"url":"https:\/\/www.darrenbrant.com\/?p=526","url_meta":{"origin":510,"position":0},"title":"Self Portrait 4\/12\/12","author":"db","date":"May 24, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Playing around with the old computer and dashed off a quick self portrait\u00a0using\u00a0 the \"charcoal\" brush in Corel Painter. Since I don't really know the software, it didn't end up looking like it was drawn with charcoal. More like petroleum jelly on wax paper. That is one of the disadvantages\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Artist Blog&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Artist Blog","link":"https:\/\/www.darrenbrant.com\/?cat=26"},"img":{"alt_text":"darren_brant_Self-Portrait_4-12-12_final","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.darrenbrant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/darren_brant_Self-Portrait_4-12-12_final.jpg?fit=414%2C640&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1222,"url":"https:\/\/www.darrenbrant.com\/?p=1222","url_meta":{"origin":510,"position":1},"title":"Sketch Human Figure #DrawingAugust 8\/1\/14","author":"db","date":"August 1, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Sat down today and drew my first #drawingaugust sketch. Found out that it's hard to draw while eating a hamburger. Source image:","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Artist Blog&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Artist Blog","link":"https:\/\/www.darrenbrant.com\/?cat=26"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1114,"url":"https:\/\/www.darrenbrant.com\/?p=1114","url_meta":{"origin":510,"position":2},"title":"Day 2 of #DrawingAugust 10 Minute Figure Sketch","author":"db","date":"August 14, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Ah the best of intentions. I've fallen behind on my drawing and my blog posting. Here is my second drawing of my August daily sketches. For a reference I've been using the computer program Daz3d to pose the figures. There are drawbacks to this approach but convenience is the main\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Artist Blog&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Artist Blog","link":"https:\/\/www.darrenbrant.com\/?cat=26"},"img":{"alt_text":"Darren Brant #drawingaugust figure 2","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.darrenbrant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Darren-Brant-drawingaugust-figure-2.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.darrenbrant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Darren-Brant-drawingaugust-figure-2.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.darrenbrant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Darren-Brant-drawingaugust-figure-2.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":74,"url":"https:\/\/www.darrenbrant.com\/?p=74","url_meta":{"origin":510,"position":3},"title":"Daily Scribble Sept. 15 &#8211; 17","author":"db","date":"September 17, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Here are the results of my first week of figure drawing practice. Since I started my drawing practice mid week I only had three lunches to sketch this week. Two drawings then isn't bad for me. Figure Sketch Sept. 16, 2010 Used a stock image from Deviant art by lesoleilfoncestock\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Drawing&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Drawing","link":"https:\/\/www.darrenbrant.com\/?cat=6"},"img":{"alt_text":"figure sketch 9-16-10","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.darrenbrant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/figure_sketch_9_16_10.jpg?fit=394%2C610&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":100,"url":"https:\/\/www.darrenbrant.com\/?p=100","url_meta":{"origin":510,"position":4},"title":"Daily Scribble Sept. 20 &#8211; 24","author":"db","date":"September 24, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Here are the results of my second week of figure drawing practice. Monday and Tuesday were so busy I barely had time for lunch, so no drawings from those days. The rest of the week, I have no excuses. 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