{"id":2012,"date":"2007-06-10T18:19:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-11T01:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/?p=2012"},"modified":"2007-06-10T18:19:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-11T01:19:00","slug":"the-bare-minimum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/?p=2012","title":{"rendered":"The Bare Minimum"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"left\"><i>Posted WAAAY early, so that I can concentrate on other BS.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Ballpoint pen and red sharpie, done in one shot, no preliminary pencils. Minimal Photoshop cleanup:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbot.com\/bootlegsketch\/caniquitweb.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbot.com\/bootlegsketch\/caniquitweb.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size:78%;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">click above for larger view<\/span><\/div>\n<p>I don&#8217;t show it much on this blog, but I do play around with different styles a lot when I&#8217;m sketching. In the midst of my on-going plumbing\/garbage-carpet crisis, I have focused on doing simple pen drawings to keep me sane. Doing these minimalist pen drawings without making major mistakes is a zen-like exercise that helps keep me from moidalizin&#8217; everything around me. With this particular comic, I think I was subconsciously swiping\/homaging the style of my good friend Annie, of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apekabuki.blogspot.com\/\">Ape Kabuki<\/a>. However, her comics are simultaneously better, funnier, and more enigmatic. Stop looking at my crap, and go look at her blog!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted WAAAY early, so that I can concentrate on other BS. Ballpoint pen and red sharpie, done in one shot, no preliminary pencils. Minimal Photoshop cleanup: click above for larger view I don&#8217;t show it much on this blog, but I do play around with different styles a lot when I&#8217;m sketching. In the midst [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ego-raging","category-j-ho-originals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012","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=2012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}