{"id":222,"date":"2015-01-22T22:07:04","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T11:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greole.com\/blog\/?p=222"},"modified":"2015-01-22T22:07:04","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T11:07:04","slug":"the-importance-of-a-picture-reference-library-for-writers-and-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/01\/22\/the-importance-of-a-picture-reference-library-for-writers-and-artists\/","title":{"rendered":"The importance of a picture reference library for writers and artists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/0b26a13.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-16\" src=\"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/0b26a13.jpg\" alt=\"0b26a13\" width=\"143\" height=\"143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/0b26a13.jpg 200w, https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/0b26a13-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 143px) 100vw, 143px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every day I spend about an hour watching YouTube videos on topics ranging from the history of particular genres to various art &#8220;how to&#8221; guides. Recently I stumbled across one by a professional artist who spoke about his picture reference library. At the time I thought &#8220;That&#8217;s cool&#8221; and forgot about it. But later that day I realised just how valuable an observation this was. (Unfortunately I cannot find the video where I saw this or I would share it)<\/p>\n<p>A bit of personal history&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every day I spend about an hour watching YouTube videos on topics ranging from the history of particular genres to various art &#8220;how to&#8221; guides. Recently I stumbled across one by a professional artist who spoke about his picture reference library. At the time I thought &#8220;That&#8217;s cool&#8221; and forgot about it. But later that day I realised just how valuable an observation this was. (Unfortunately I cannot find the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpupg_custom_link":[],"wpupg_custom_link_behaviour":[],"wpupg_custom_image":[],"wpupg_custom_image_id":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,2],"tags":[38,13,30,4],"series":[],"class_list":["entry","author-soulthief","post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arttuts","category-good-writing","tag-blogging101","tag-digital-art","tag-photoshop","tag-writing","clearfix"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/venice1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}