{"id":1981,"date":"2007-03-12T17:08:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-13T00:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/?p=1981"},"modified":"2007-03-12T17:08:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-13T00:08:00","slug":"hobo-by-j-ho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/?p=1981","title":{"rendered":"Hobo By J.Ho"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"left\"><i>Posted early while I&#8217;m at work, because my DSL is down at home&#8230;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Character of the week, for <a href=\"http:\/\/characterclass.blogspot.com\/\">Rick&#8217;s character design blog<\/a>&#8211;a hobo:<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbot.com\/bootlegsketch\/hoboweb.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbot.com\/bootlegsketch\/hoboweb.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">click above for larger view<\/span><\/div>\n<p>I definitely took a different approach this time&#8211;this one was completely digital. I just started sketching in Photoshop, without knowing where I was going to end up. I refined the line art for the hobo in a separate layer and started shading the hobo and rendering the background in the original layer. For the final touches, I used a half-tone filter on the shading\/background layer, adjusted the hue\/saturation on the whole thing to get a sort-of sepia color, and then dropped in my signature and URL in an old-timey font.<\/p>\n<p>There are some bad tangents and clutter where the hobo&#8217;s upper lip eclipses part of his left hand&#8230; I need to be more aware of that kind of stuff in the early stages of sketching, because by the time I noticed it, I was too lazy to go back and re-do that whole section of the drawing.<\/p>\n<p>Not a style that I&#8217;ll be going with all the time, but this was quick and fun. It&#8217;s good to mix it up so I don&#8217;t feel like my stuff is getting stale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted early while I&#8217;m at work, because my DSL is down at home&#8230; Character of the week, for Rick&#8217;s character design blog&#8211;a hobo: click above for larger view I definitely took a different approach this time&#8211;this one was completely digital. I just started sketching in Photoshop, without knowing where I was going to end up. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-j-ho-originals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}