{"id":199,"date":"2021-02-04T21:18:06","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T21:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed-scriptorium\/?page_id=199"},"modified":"2026-03-11T07:59:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T15:59:40","slug":"form-drawing-and-other-warm-up-exercises","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed-scriptorium\/form-drawing-and-other-warm-up-exercises\/","title":{"rendered":"Form Drawing and Celtic Knots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"565\" height=\"363\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed-scriptorium\/files\/2021\/02\/fullsizeoutput_77e.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed-scriptorium\/files\/2021\/02\/fullsizeoutput_77e.jpeg 565w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed-scriptorium\/files\/2021\/02\/fullsizeoutput_77e-300x193.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 565px) 100vw, 565px\" \/><figcaption>Practice drawing these forms with a pencil without lifting the pencil from the page. Replicating them is deceptively difficult. Each time you draw one of these forms, your eyes and writing hand will develop a greater understanding of how each form is constructed. Seek to make them as balanced as you can, just as they are in the model, and move your hand at a slow but steady pace.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2399,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed-scriptorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed-scriptorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed-scriptorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed-scriptorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2399"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed-scriptorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed-scriptorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed-scriptorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/199\/revisions\/211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed-scriptorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed-scriptorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed-scriptorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}