{"id":2068,"date":"2007-12-07T00:41:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-07T08:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/?p=2068"},"modified":"2007-12-07T00:41:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-07T08:41:00","slug":"yellow-bellied-villain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/?p=2068","title":{"rendered":"Yellow Bellied Villain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"left\">When I draw superheroes, I tend to draw them the way they looked 20 years ago because I am, apparently, a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fossil\">fossil<\/a>. However today, I&#8217;m taking a brief moment to step out of my horribly obsolete mindframe, and present to you the classic <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Green_Lantern\">Green Lantern<\/a> villain, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sinestro\">Sinestro<\/a>, in his <i>modern<\/i> uniform (even though you can only see the collar):<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbot.com\/bootlegsketch\/sinestroweb.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"WIDTH: 175px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbot.com\/bootlegsketch\/sinestroweb.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">click above for larger view<\/span><\/div>\n<p>It started out as a quick pen sketch, but it grew on me, so I decided to color it up and post it. I chose to give him his present-day colors because frankly, it never made sense to me that a character who was yellow-themed would have virtually no yellow on his uniform whatsoever. The face is cut off because I wanted to show the duality of a former hero turned villain&#8211;the missing half of his face represents Sinestro&#8217;s sense of morality, forever obfuscated by&#8230; OKAY, IT&#8217;S ALL A LIE. I drew him too close to the edge of the paper. Listen, if I had realized it was going to turn out halfway decent I would have started on a new sheet of paper. Sometimes these things take you by surprise!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I draw superheroes, I tend to draw them the way they looked 20 years ago because I am, apparently, a fossil. However today, I&#8217;m taking a brief moment to step out of my horribly obsolete mindframe, and present to you the classic Green Lantern villain, Sinestro, in his modern uniform (even though you can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-superheroes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068","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=2068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}