{"id":2380,"date":"2011-04-29T03:08:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T10:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/?p=2380"},"modified":"2011-04-29T03:08:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-29T10:08:00","slug":"cue-danny-elfman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/?p=2380","title":{"rendered":"*Cue Danny Elfman*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I sketched this up for <a href=\"http:\/\/duss005.deviantart.com\/\">Dustin<\/a> last weekend during the Long Beach Comic Expo, inked it up when I got home, and colored it this week. And here I am posting in a reasonably timely manner, <a href=\"http:\/\/bootlegsketch.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/squawk.html\">as promised<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbot.com\/bootlegsketch\/batman2web.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbot.com\/bootlegsketch\/batman2web.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">click above for larger view<\/span><\/div>\n<p>I did my best to channel Alex Toth, Bruce Timm, and Derek Fridolfs when I drew this (please go to <a href=\"http:\/\/dfridolfs.deviantart.com\/\">Derek&#8217;s DeviantArt page<\/a>, look at his awesome black and white ink sketches, and give him some compliments&#8211;it makes him very uncomfortable). There are some other influences at work as well&#8230; the general leanness of form is from Neal Adams (<a href=\"http:\/\/bootlegsketch.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/man-himself.html\">whose influence I&#8217;ve discussed previously<\/a>), and of course the crescent moon eyes are from Dick Sprang. I think there&#8217;s a little Jeff Matsuda in there too.<\/p>\n<p>This started out as a pretty static sketch, but  I&#8217;m trying to be more dynamic these days, so I consciously tried to move away from that. The big experiment for me on this one was spotting blacks heavily. I usually do all my lighting in the coloring stage because I&#8217;m uncomfortable with my ability to execute heavy inks. I feel okay about the result though&#8211;you can tell because I was actually willing to show you what the original lineart looked like.<\/p>\n<p>(For those who care about such things&#8211;<i>of course<\/i> he has the yellow oval on his chest.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sketched this up for Dustin last weekend during the Long Beach Comic Expo, inked it up when I got home, and colored it this week. And here I am posting in a reasonably timely manner, as promised: click above for larger view I did my best to channel Alex Toth, Bruce Timm, and Derek [&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-2380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-superheroes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380","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=2380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}