{"id":802,"date":"2011-07-28T18:59:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T18:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/?p=802"},"modified":"2013-07-29T06:58:07","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T06:58:07","slug":"super-old-snitloe-sketches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/?p=802","title":{"rendered":"Super-Old SNitLoE Sketches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week <a href=\"http:\/\/everettpatterson.blogspot.com\/2010\/12\/my-dad-his-dad-and-my-dog.html\">my dad<\/a> 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.savagenobles.com\/\">SNitLoE<\/a> 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<div>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.savagenobles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/SuperoldTonya.gif\" alt=\"\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.savagenobles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/SuperoldTheo.gif\" alt=\"\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.savagenobles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/SuperoldKafir.gif\" alt=\"\">\n<\/div>\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;  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","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":[56],"class_list":["post-802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-snitloe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802","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=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}