{"id":708,"date":"2014-08-09T21:39:24","date_gmt":"2014-08-09T12:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/?p=708"},"modified":"2016-02-18T11:46:10","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T02:16:10","slug":"sketchbook-saturday-2-tennis-sketches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/sketchbook-saturday-2-tennis-sketches\/","title":{"rendered":"Sketchbook Saturday #2: Tennis Sketches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We rather enjoy watching the tennis whenever it comes on TV! I also like to pull out my sketchbook and see if I can draw the players while they&#8217;re playing. It&#8217;s a tricky challenge but much like gesture drawing it encourages me to focus on the main movement and lines of the figures in order to capture the essence of the action.<\/p>\n<p>Some of these sketches are rather old but I&#8217;m quite pleased with the way they came out. There are a few scribblings here that aren&#8217;t based on tennis players &#8211; when I was getting frustrated at not getting opportunities to draw things then I&#8217;d just doodle other stuff.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/tennis4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-715\" src=\"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/tennis4.jpg\" alt=\"tennis4\" width=\"598\" height=\"843\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/tennis4.jpg 598w, https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/tennis4-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/tennis1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-709\" src=\"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/tennis1.jpg\" alt=\"tennis1\" width=\"598\" height=\"843\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/tennis1.jpg 598w, https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/tennis1-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/tennis3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-710\" src=\"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/tennis3.jpg\" alt=\"tennis3\" width=\"598\" height=\"843\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/tennis3.jpg 598w, https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/tennis3-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/tennis5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-711\" src=\"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/tennis5.jpg\" alt=\"tennis5\" width=\"598\" height=\"843\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/tennis5.jpg 598w, https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/tennis5-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/tennis7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-712\" src=\"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/tennis7.jpg\" alt=\"tennis7\" width=\"598\" height=\"843\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/tennis7.jpg 598w, https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/tennis7-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/tennis2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-713\" src=\"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/tennis2.jpg\" alt=\"tennis2\" width=\"598\" height=\"843\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/tennis2.jpg 598w, https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/tennis2-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/tennis6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-714\" src=\"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/tennis6.jpg\" alt=\"tennis6\" width=\"598\" height=\"843\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/tennis6.jpg 598w, https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/tennis6-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We rather enjoy watching the tennis whenever it comes on TV! I also like to pull out my sketchbook and see if I can draw the players while they&#8217;re playing. It&#8217;s a tricky challenge but much like gesture drawing it encourages me to focus on the main movement and lines of the figures in order &#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/sketchbook-saturday-2-tennis-sketches\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,105],"tags":[219,218,58,217],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-708","6":"format-image","7":"category-line-drawings","8":"category-sketches","9":"post_tag-figure","10":"post_tag-gesture","11":"post_tag-sketch","12":"post_tag-tennis","13":"post_format-post-format-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}