{"id":1998,"date":"2007-04-30T23:07:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-01T06:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/?p=1998"},"modified":"2007-04-30T23:07:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-01T06:07:00","slug":"duck-week-part-1-blathering-blatherskite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/?p=1998","title":{"rendered":"DUCK WEEK PART 1: Blathering Blatherskite!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"left\">Welcome to the very first Bootleg Sketch <b>Mega-Event<\/b><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">(TM)<\/span>: that&#8217;s right, it&#8217;s <b>Duck Week<\/b><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">(TM)<\/span>! What does that mean? It means that I&#8217;ll be drawing ducks this week. Yes, that&#8217;s right, <i><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Duck\">ducks<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pencil-ninja.deviantart.com\/\">Pencil-Ninja<\/a> was having a Disney-themed jam over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deviantart.com\/\">Deviant Art<\/a>, and around the same time, old buddy Gavin added in the comments section, &#8220;<i>enough with the He-Man! &#8230; [I&#8217;m] jonesing for a Disney Afternoon something or other&#8230;<\/i>&#8221; On the one hand, the words &#8220;enough&#8221; and &#8220;He-Man&#8221; don&#8217;t make any sense to my brain at all&#8211;but on the other hand, I too &#8220;jones&#8221; for the golden age of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Disney_Afternoon\">Disney Afternoon<\/a>. And so, to kill two proverbial birds with one stone, I set my sketch-sights on Fenton Crackshell AKA <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gizmo_Duck\">Gizmo Duck<\/a>, a later addition to the cast of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/DuckTales\">Ducktales<\/a>:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbot.com\/bootlegsketch\/gizmoduckweb.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbot.com\/bootlegsketch\/gizmoduckweb.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">click above for larger view<\/span><\/div>\n<p>I stuck with my own style and I changed a few details here and there, but this is still a pretty straightforward interpretation. Incidentally, if it&#8217;s not obvious, Gizmo Duck is supposed to be screeching to a halt. I&#8217;m happy with my color selections, though the shading, such as it is, is very basic. The background color was a last minute addition to distinguish Gizmo Duck&#8217;s white armor from the white background.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the other entries in Pencil-Ninja&#8217;s jam <a href=\"http:\/\/pencil-ninja.deviantart.com\/journal\/12491272\/\">at this link<\/a>, and stay tuned for more <b>DUCK WEEK<\/b><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">(TM)<\/span>, including a bonus review on Wednesday and another Duck-Sketch on Friday, right here, on this very Blog! BELIEVE IT!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the very first Bootleg Sketch Mega-Event(TM): that&#8217;s right, it&#8217;s Duck Week(TM)! What does that mean? It means that I&#8217;ll be drawing ducks this week. Yes, that&#8217;s right, ducks. Pencil-Ninja was having a Disney-themed jam over at Deviant Art, and around the same time, old buddy Gavin added in the comments section, &#8220;enough with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}