{"id":12,"date":"2005-01-02T16:09:52","date_gmt":"2005-01-03T13:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=12"},"modified":"2005-01-02T17:20:32","modified_gmt":"2005-01-03T14:20:32","slug":"the-pails-progress-pt-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=12","title":{"rendered":"The pail&#8217;s progress pt. 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As some point in the process before you really start drawing, you&#8217;ve gotta get a handle on the characters you&#8217;re going to be drawing.  In this case I&#8217;ve drawn the Boxing Bucket a bunch before&#8211;and he&#8217;s not really that difficult to deal with&#8230;you see, he&#8217;s a <strong>bucket with arms and legs<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>The other character in this story is Roger Rogers, who in this case is being drawn as an &#8220;eyestalk alien&#8221; rather than a human.  I&#8217;ve got kindof a fixation on these aliens (see <a href=\"http:\/\/host273.ipowerweb.com\/~benzilla\/trainedchimp\/images\/alien.jpg\" rel=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/host273.ipowerweb.com\/~benzilla\/trainedchimp\/images\/strange_eggs.gif\" rel=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>)  and know how to draw them, but the Roger Rogers alien has to have some of the features of the human Roger Rogers, so below you can see some of the preliminary work I&#8217;ve been doing in my sketchbook to get a handle on how to draw the Roger Rogers eyestalk alien.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/upload_images\/rogers_sketches.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/upload_images\/_rogers_sketches.jpg\" width=\"248\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Roger Rogers sketches\" title=\"Roger Rogers sketches\"  \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-size:10px\">(Click for larger image)<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As some point in the process before you really start drawing, you&#8217;ve gotta get a handle on the characters you&#8217;re going to be drawing. In this case I&#8217;ve drawn the Boxing Bucket a bunch before&#8211;and he&#8217;s not really that difficult to deal with&#8230;you see, he&#8217;s a bucket with arms and legs. The other character in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=12\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46veT-c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}