{"id":435,"date":"2011-07-28T11:55:49","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T18:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.savagenobles.com\/?p=435"},"modified":"2011-07-28T11:55:49","modified_gmt":"2011-07-28T18:55:49","slug":"super-old-character-sketches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/?p=435","title":{"rendered":"Super-Old Character Sketches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week my dad is visiting me here in Portland, OR. Even though we&#8217;re having a blast, hanging out with him is definitely slowing down the process of preparing the book for print. However, his visit is not all bad news for SNitLoE fans: in the dark recesses of my old bedroom back in New Orleans, my parents uncovered an ancient dusty sketchbook which contains the <em>earliest known sketches<\/em> of the Savage Nobles. Check out this ancient history:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.savagenobles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/SuperoldTonya.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.savagenobles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/SuperoldTheo.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.savagenobles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/SuperoldKafir.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The one of Kafir, I think, is the oldest. &#8220;A lot of surly teenagers think of themselves as being imprisoned by their parents,&#8221; I thought. &#8220;But what if a guy&#8217;s <em>actual<\/em> parents were his <em>actual<\/em> jailers.&#8221;\u00a0 Then I drew this image and it was the springboard for creating the entire character. I kinda wish I&#8217;d kept the earring!<\/p>\n<p>The early Tonya and the early Theo were both modeled on baristas that I knew. There is one even older drawing of Theo somewhere, which I can no longer locate.<\/p>\n<p>The less said about my drawings skills in the spring of 2009, the better.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.savagenobles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Signature.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week my dad is visiting me here in Portland, OR. Even though we&#8217;re having a blast, hanging out with him is definitely slowing down the process of preparing the book for print. However, his visit is not all bad news for SNitLoE fans: in the dark recesses of my old bedroom back in New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}