{"id":806,"date":"2011-06-10T07:56:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T07:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/?p=806"},"modified":"2013-07-29T06:59:13","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T06:59:13","slug":"i-am-so-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/?p=806","title":{"rendered":"I Am So Great"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished what I consider to be a particularly good page of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.savagenobles.com\/\">Savage Nobles in the Land of Enchantment<\/a>, maybe one of the best. Not counting thumbnails, I did the entire page from start to finish in one day &#8211; actually just about 7-8 hours if you subtract all the time I spent singing in choir, hackey-sacking in the park, applying online for unemployment compensation, and queuing at the Department of Health and Human Services.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.savagenobles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/SNitLoE_165_demo.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.savagenobles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/SNitLoE_165_demo.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>(please click the image to see the full-sized version!)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Though I am pleased with almost every aspect of this page (the page layout; the blocking of the figures; the human anatomy, gesture, and costume; the sweet but not saccharine tone, lightened by a little humor; the foreshadowing of Manaka&#8217;s concerned glance) there are, as always, things I wish I could do better. Pro-inker Gary Martin, who graciously carved me a brand new anus while reviewing my portfolio at this year&#8217;s Stumptown Comics Fest, wants me to focus on my line weight. So although I was <span>already <\/span>trying to use heavier lines opposite my light source, I&#8217;m trying even harder now &#8211; it worked pretty well on Theo&#8217;s face in panel 4. I don&#8217;t necessarily want the uber-slick look of some of Gary&#8217;s (admittedly amazing) inking for my own comics, but even if I ultimately opt for a smudgier\/sloppier treatment, it&#8217;s still a skill I should have under my belt. Some of my lines, I think, are still way too thin, and I am <span>still <\/span>struggling with ways to create grays &#8211; my crosshatching is hopelessly haphazard and 165 pages later I am still smearing my drybrush all over the place inadvisedly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished what I consider to be a particularly good page of Savage Nobles in the Land of Enchantment, maybe one of the best. Not counting thumbnails, I did the entire page from start to finish in one day &#8211; actually just about 7-8 hours if you subtract all the time I spent singing [&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-806","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\/806","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=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}