{"id":1953,"date":"2011-02-03T02:38:43","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T02:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toadhollowstudio.com\/wp_blog\/?p=1953"},"modified":"2023-12-28T03:48:57","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T03:48:57","slug":"bipolar-dragonfly-in-purple-and-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toadhollowstudio.com\/wp_blog\/2011\/02\/bipolar-dragonfly-in-purple-and-green\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragonfly In Purple And Green"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1961\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1961\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1961\" title=\"Dragonfly In Purple And Green\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.toadhollowstudio.com\/wp_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/dragonfly1.jpg?resize=500%2C516\" alt=\"Dragonfly In Purple And Green\" width=\"500\" height=\"516\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.toadhollowstudio.com\/wp_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/dragonfly1.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.toadhollowstudio.com\/wp_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/dragonfly1.jpg?resize=290%2C300&amp;ssl=1 290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1961\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dragonfly In Purple And Green<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The first draft of this dragonfly was drawn on my iPod in the middle of the night. I have insomnia, so I keep my iPod by the bed to keep myself occupied until I fall back to sleep.<\/p>\n<p>I drew it on an intuitive drawing app called miniDraw. It has lots of options, including layers and gradient fills, but I love that I can use my finger tip to maneuver the lines best of all.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s something extraordinarily satisfying about getting my fingers involved in the drawing process. I need that direct contact to feel my way into an image and I&#8217;ve never felt that sensation using a pen on a digital tablet.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s very engaging to add gradients and patterns to images during the day, but <em><strong>drawing<\/strong><\/em> gives shape to my visions in the middle of the night when there is no one else to see.<\/p>\n<p><em>This dragonfly was created in the years before my bipolar brain was medicated. I&#8217;m bipolar II, and my upswings were highly creative and kept me up at night. As you can see, the work is nothing like my current pencil drawings. While I enjoy looking at the colorful work I created in my unmedicated state, I don\u2019t miss those days. See also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toadhollowstudio.com\/wp_blog\/2011\/01\/turtle-of-the-month\/\">Turtle of the Month<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first draft of this dragonfly was drawn on my iPod in the middle of the night. I have insomnia, so I keep my iPod by the bed to keep myself occupied until I fall back to sleep. I drew it on an intuitive drawing app called miniDraw. It has lots of options, including layers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toadhollowstudio.com\/wp_blog\/2011\/02\/bipolar-dragonfly-in-purple-and-green\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dragonfly In Purple And Green&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broody-ideas"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Dragonfly In Purple And Green - Carol&#039;s Drawing Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This dragonfly was created in the years before my bipolar brain was medicated. 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