{"id":499,"date":"2009-05-01T10:24:17","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T15:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/?p=499"},"modified":"2013-01-02T21:29:58","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T02:29:58","slug":"practice-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/practice-before\/","title":{"rendered":"Practice before committing."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/howto-005.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/howto-005.jpg\" alt=\"ICECUBES\" title=\"ICECUBES\" width=\"690\" height=\"609\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/howto-005.jpg 690w, https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/howto-005-150x132.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>When I&#8217;m planning out a drawing, sometimes I need to make some real quick sketches to work out simple things like a hand position.  In this case I wanted to try out some different hand positions so that the pen he is holding didn&#8217;t cut across his face and disrupt the drawing.  So I moved it around. <strong>You can see the published comic strip here.<\/strong><\/em><figure id=\"attachment_196\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-196\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/icecubes0040.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/icecubes0040-300x104.jpg\" alt=\"ICECUBES\" title=\"ICECUBES\" width=\"300\" height=\"104\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/icecubes0040-300x104.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/icecubes0040-150x52.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/icecubes0040.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-196\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ICECUBES<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/legs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/legs.jpg\" alt=\"ICECUBES\" title=\"ICECUBES\" width=\"696\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/legs.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.icecubescomic.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/legs-150x129.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Here I was trying to figure out how to get Peckinpaw to cross his legs and look natural&#8230; not as easy as you would think!  Tip: the shin and knee are <strong>foreshortened!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I&#8217;m planning out a drawing, sometimes I need to make some real quick sketches to work out simple things like a hand position. 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