{"id":63396,"date":"2026-06-20T17:26:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T00:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/?p=63396"},"modified":"2026-06-20T17:26:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T00:26:51","slug":"guided","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/20\/guided\/","title":{"rendered":"Guided"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I tried two tricks. I used one of them- turning the picture upside down- for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/19\/well-thats-a-stretch\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"63173\">the last picture<\/a>. This time I added an 8&#215;6 grid to give me 48 squares to keep me on track. Much less stretchy. I guess it&#8217;s better than tracing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"731\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/260620-1024x731.jpg\" alt=\"Profile self portrait.\" class=\"wp-image-63399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/260620-1024x731.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/260620-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/260620-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/260620-1536x1097.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/260620-2048x1463.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The main thing I learned: I have hairy ears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now I need to figure out how to do it right side up without the grid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tried two tricks. I used one of them- turning the picture upside down- for the last picture. This time I added an 8&#215;6 grid to give me 48 squares to keep me on track. Much less stretchy. I guess it&#8217;s better than tracing. The main thing I learned: I have hairy ears. Now I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":10,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[376,406],"tags":[142,10,407],"class_list":["post-63396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drawing","category-self-portraits","tag-drawing","tag-photoshop","tag-self-portrait"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63400,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63396\/revisions\/63400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}