{"id":2176,"date":"2008-11-21T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-21T08:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/?p=2176"},"modified":"2008-11-21T00:01:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-21T08:01:00","slug":"mutant-zoo-bat-deer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/?p=2176","title":{"rendered":"Mutant Zoo! Bat + Deer!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thedreamwolf.deviantart.com\/\">Dreamwolf<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/super-munkyboy.deviantart.com\/\">Super-Munkyboy<\/a> are holding a jam over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deviantart.com\">Deviantart<\/a> called <i>Mutant Zoo<\/i>. The basic idea is to draw a hybrid of two animals&#8211;this week&#8217;s challenge was Deer + Bat:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbot.com\/bootlegsketch\/mzbatdeerweb.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"WIDTH: 350px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbot.com\/bootlegsketch\/mzbatdeerweb.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">click above for larger view<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8230; the Ba&#8217;eer is known to commonly appear shortly before the birth or after the death of a great hero or hunter. A Ba&#8217;eer with a flame above its antlers is carrying the soul of a fallen hero or hunter to the afterworld; an unadorned Ba&#8217;eer heralds the birth of such a hunter or hero&#8230;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The horns and face markings are based loosely on the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reeves%27s_Muntjac\">muntjac<\/a>, and the tusks are based on the muntjac, as well as the more exaggerated tusks of a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Water_deer\">water deer<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Musk_deer\">musk deer<\/a>. The ears and nose are loosely based on a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leaf-nosed_bat\">leaf-nosed bat<\/a>. I wanted to try a drawing with super-thin lines (pass), and had a certain look in mind for the colors, but it really didn&#8217;t quite work out (fail).<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to check out <a href=\"http:\/\/thedreamwolf.deviantart.com\/\">Dreamwolf&#8217;s Deviantart page<\/a> for links to other participants!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dreamwolf and Super-Munkyboy are holding a jam over at Deviantart called Mutant Zoo. The basic idea is to draw a hybrid of two animals&#8211;this week&#8217;s challenge was Deer + Bat: click above for larger view &#8230; the Ba&#8217;eer is known to commonly appear shortly before the birth or after the death of a great hero [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-j-ho-originals","category-monsters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176","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=2176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}