{"id":7679,"date":"2014-10-12T14:01:19","date_gmt":"2014-10-12T19:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/?p=7679"},"modified":"2014-10-12T14:18:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-12T19:18:00","slug":"meritorious-achievement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/meritorious-achievement\/","title":{"rendered":"Meritorious Achievement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/scout.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7680\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/scout.jpg\" alt=\"scout\" width=\"860\" height=\"1027\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/scout.jpg 860w, https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/scout-251x300.jpg 251w, https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/scout-857x1024.jpg 857w, https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/scout-418x500.jpg 418w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>I probably shouldn&#8217;t consider it such a huge deal,\u00a0but I do.<\/strong> Every year I have the unique\u00a0privilege\u00a0of teaching some eager graphic design students the rigors of vector drawing. Drawing primitive\u00a0shapes (circles, rectangles, polygons) with geometric precision doesn&#8217;t present many challenges, but the\u00a0crucible for most recruits\u00a0lies with learning the notorious\u00a0pen tool. I can lecture, demonstrate and share war stories, but in the end nothing will teach them how to use this indispensable tool\u00a0faster than\u00a0practice, practice and more practice. After drilling them on\u00a0some routine\u00a0vector drawing exercises\u00a0I can usually assess how well they grasp the basic concepts they&#8217;ve been taught. It might be hokey, but I almost want to invest in some embroidered merit badges emblazoned with the pen tool, so that when they reach that pinnacle moment of achievement \u2013 drawing efficient vector paths with prime point placement, articulation and accuracy \u2013 I can present it to each of them as a milestone accomplishment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I probably shouldn&#8217;t consider it such a huge deal,\u00a0but I do. Every year I have the unique\u00a0privilege\u00a0of teaching some eager graphic design students the rigors of vector drawing. Drawing primitive\u00a0shapes (circles, rectangles, polygons) with geometric precision doesn&#8217;t present many challenges, but the\u00a0crucible for most recruits\u00a0lies with learning the notorious\u00a0pen tool. I can lecture, demonstrate and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[7,14,18,57,155,33],"tags":[157,156,158],"class_list":["post-7679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrations","category-graphic-design","category-illustration","category-inktober","category-teaching","category-work","tag-merit-badge","tag-pen-tool","tag-scout"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3XRuE-1ZR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7679"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7682,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7679\/revisions\/7682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}