{"id":4027,"date":"2012-03-26T09:13:06","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T13:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=4027"},"modified":"2012-03-25T22:47:38","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T02:47:38","slug":"x-is-for-xorn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=4027","title":{"rendered":"X is for Xorn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the original <em>Monster Manual<\/em>, it&#8217;s the xorn. I was expecting the &#8220;X&#8221; entries to be slim pickings&#8211;and indeed there weren&#8217;t many Dungeons and Dragons beasts to choose from&#8211;but, I was excited to see the xorn since I really like the xorn&#8217;s creature design. I was pretty happy as well with my interpretation of the xorn at the pencil stage; unfortunately, though, I started into this one <em>way<\/em> too late on Saturday night (if you catch my drift) and the inking job is the sloppiest of my AlphaBeasts entries so far. I made a valiant effort to try to save the drawing at the ink wash stage this evening. The end result ain&#8217;t too shabby, but certainly not as satisfying as the (original now-sold!) wyvern from last week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>X is for Xorn<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/03\/xorn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4028\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?attachment_id=4028\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/03\/xorn.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1000,1003\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"xorn\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/03\/xorn-300x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/03\/xorn.jpg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4028\" title=\"xorn\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/03\/xorn-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/03\/xorn-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/03\/xorn-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/03\/xorn.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/benzilla.storenvy.com\/products\/300317-x-is-for-xorn\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2522\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?attachment_id=2522\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2010\/10\/socialNetworkIcons_storenvySM.png\" data-orig-size=\"32,38\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"socialNetworkIcons_storenvySM\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2010\/10\/socialNetworkIcons_storenvySM.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2010\/10\/socialNetworkIcons_storenvySM.png\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2522 alignleft\" style=\"border: 0pt none; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-right: 4px;\" title=\"socialNetworkIcons_storenvySM\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2010\/10\/socialNetworkIcons_storenvySM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"32\" height=\"38\" \/><\/a><strong><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\">The original art for this is for sale <a href=\"http:\/\/benzilla.storenvy.com\/products\/300317-x-is-for-xorn\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can follow the other \u201cX\u201d entries as people post them to Twitter this morning by following the <a title=\"The Alpha Beasts Project on Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/search\/%23AlphaBeasts\" target=\"_blank\">#AlphaBeasts<\/a> hashtag. View all previous AlphaBeasts entries at the AlphaBeasts Tumblr:<a href=\"http:\/\/alphabeasts.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> http:\/\/alphabeasts.tumblr.com\/<\/a>. You can also find some submission guidelines there, as well as links to bestiaries and lists of creatures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the original Monster Manual, it&#8217;s the xorn. I was expecting the &#8220;X&#8221; entries to be slim pickings&#8211;and indeed there weren&#8217;t many Dungeons and Dragons beasts to choose from&#8211;but, I was excited to see the xorn since I really like the xorn&#8217;s creature design. I was pretty happy as well with my interpretation of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=4027\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[1],"tags":[34],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46veT-12X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4027"}],"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=4027"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4031,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4027\/revisions\/4031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}