{"id":7398,"date":"2025-04-03T14:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T14:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.digitalladysyd.com\/?p=7398"},"modified":"2025-04-03T14:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T14:55:09","slug":"the-basketball-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.digitalladysyd.com\/?p=7398","title":{"rendered":"The Basketball Guy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sydjohnson\/54427481189\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54427481189_87a3335b52.jpg\" alt=\"Drawing of a basketball player\n\" style=\"width:560px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just had fun painting this guy since I have been watching so much college basketball recently. The background is of Mackey Arena at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Purdue_University\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Purdue University<\/a> &#8211; my alma mater &#8211; used Alien Skin&#8217;s Snap Art 4 with a Pastel preset on this. Decided to give him a light beard and mustache by using <a href=\"https:\/\/paintable.cc\/portrait-brushes-fb\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">David Belliveau&#8217;s beard brush<\/a>. The eye iris&#8217;s were created using Kristina Sherk&#8217;s striations brush (not sure when I got it) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grutbrushes.com\/shop\/photoshop-brushes\/photoshop-brushes-impasto-oil-brushes\/photoshop-impasto-oil-brush-chip-gimble\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Grut&#8217;s OI Chip Gimble brush<\/a> for the speckles (watch for his free brush of the week-some great brushes at this site). The chalk brushes used are in most of my recent drawings for the skin and uniform. Just followed my regular workflow of doing a rough drawing, then a refined drawing, before adding color below. Next details, shadows and highlights were added&#8230;&#8230;.Digital Lady Syd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just had fun painting this guy since I have been watching so much college basketball recently. The background is of Mackey Arena at Purdue University &#8211; my alma mater &#8211; used Alien Skin&#8217;s Snap Art 4 with a Pastel preset on this. Decided to give him a light beard and mustache by using David Belliveau&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[678],"tags":[33,677],"class_list":["post-7398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photoshop-painting","tag-photoshop-brushes","tag-snap-art-4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalladysyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalladysyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalladysyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalladysyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalladysyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7398"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalladysyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7407,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalladysyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7398\/revisions\/7407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalladysyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalladysyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalladysyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}