{"id":203,"date":"2014-11-16T17:06:13","date_gmt":"2014-11-16T17:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/charlottechevalier.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/16\/what-i-learned-in-critique\/"},"modified":"2014-11-16T17:06:13","modified_gmt":"2014-11-16T17:06:13","slug":"what-i-learned-in-critique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/charlottechevalier.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/16\/what-i-learned-in-critique\/","title":{"rendered":"What I Learned in Critique."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These are a few things that seem terribly obvious, but still took me a couple months to be conscious of:<\/p>\n<p>1. Print your pieces out throughout your process; your computer screen lies to you.<\/p>\n<p>2. Don&#8217;t be timid. Be bold and fearless with your lack of detail and stroke weight. Try different styles, not just what is comfortable.<\/p>\n<p>3. Steer clear of being too literal and instead focus on trying to capture the essence.<\/p>\n<p>The assignment was to take an object, decipher it, capture its lights and shadows, and render the essence of the object in Illustrator. I started out by actually tracing the peacock to understand its different sections and get a sense of the detail of the plumage and fur. I worked through numerous iterations and spent hours upon hours on the individual feathers. I decided I was satisfied with it, printed it, mounted it. Now looking back, if I had printed it and looked at it from afar, I believe I would have noticed its illustrative quality as well as its unnecessary amount of detail.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seattlecentralnewmedia.com\/chevalier\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2014\/11\/Screen-Shot-2014-11-14-at-1.11.17-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-79\" src=\"http:\/\/seattlecentralnewmedia.com\/chevalier\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2014\/11\/Screen-Shot-2014-11-14-at-1.11.17-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-11-14 at 1.11.17 PM\" width=\"824\" height=\"740\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are a few things that seem terribly obvious, but still took me a couple months to be conscious of: 1. Print your pieces out throughout your process; your computer screen lies to you. 2. Don&#8217;t be timid. Be bold and fearless with your lack of detail and stroke weight. Try different styles, not just &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/charlottechevalier.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/16\/what-i-learned-in-critique\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What I Learned in Critique.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":83,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/charlottechevalier.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/charlottechevalier.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/charlottechevalier.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charlottechevalier.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/charlottechevalier.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charlottechevalier.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/charlottechevalier.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charlottechevalier.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charlottechevalier.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}