{"id":197,"date":"2009-02-17T09:46:02","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T14:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/?p=197"},"modified":"2023-10-14T20:22:34","modified_gmt":"2023-10-15T01:22:34","slug":"blocking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/blocking\/","title":{"rendered":"Comic strip blocking."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/blocking.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"690\" height=\"461\" src=\"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/blocking.jpg\" alt=\"ICECUBES\" title=\"ICECUBES\"  class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/blocking.jpg 690w, https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/blocking-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/blocking-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;Blocking&#8217; just means blocking out how the action gets laid out on the page.  In this case I was trying to work out the way <strong>Peckinpaw<\/strong> tripped and fell by making the gesture and movement read well in the limited amount of space of the 13&#8243; x 4&#8243; strip.  Some artists call this the storyboarding stage.  <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It&#8217;s real important to do this before you start drawing the real strip or else you will be erasing and restarting a lot.  I always try to avoid a lot of erasing because it can introduce smudges that are hard to get rid of.  It can also mess up the surface of the paper making it harder to ink.<\/p>\n<p>You can see click on the final published strip here.<br \/>\n<\/em><figure id=\"attachment_189\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-189\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/icecubes0038.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/icecubes0038-300x99.jpg\" alt=\"ICECUBES\" title=\"ICECUBES\" width=\"300\" height=\"99\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/icecubes0038-300x99.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/icecubes0038-150x49.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/icecubes0038.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-189\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ICECUBES<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Blocking&#8217; just means blocking out how the action gets laid out on the page. In this case I was trying to work out the way Peckinpaw tripped and fell by making the gesture and movement read well in the limited<br \/><a class=\"btn-more btn btn-danger btn-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/blocking\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,160,133],"tags":[16,55,165],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-drawings","category-how-to","tag-comics","tag-art","tag-original-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4549,"href":"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/4549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}