{"id":4038,"date":"2012-04-09T09:04:51","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T13:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=4038"},"modified":"2012-04-08T12:52:47","modified_gmt":"2012-04-08T16:52:47","slug":"z-is-for-zorbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=4038","title":{"rendered":"Z is for Zorbo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clearly this creature didn&#8217;t make the saving throw vs. &#8220;butt-cut.&#8221; I actually didn&#8217;t have much choice for my final AlphaBeast: there&#8217;s only one non-sentient, non-zombie (I&#8217;d also exclude zombies for being humanoid\/sentient) Dungeons &amp; Dragons &#8220;Z&#8221; creature in either <em>Monster Manual<\/em> or the <em>Fiend Folio<\/em> that has an illustration&#8230; so zorbo it was.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a bit happier here with my spot black experimentation&#8211;although the true test of getting used to spotting blacks will be doing so without any sort of a mid-tone\/gray in the mix. Once you get a lot of spot black going on, it conflicts visually with gray-tones since <em>both<\/em> are indicating shadows. Anyhoo&#8230; my very last AlphaBeast:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Z is for Zorbo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/04\/zorbo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4039\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?attachment_id=4039\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/04\/zorbo.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1000,985\" 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=\"zorbo\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/04\/zorbo-300x295.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/04\/zorbo.jpg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4039\" title=\"zorbo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/04\/zorbo-300x295.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/04\/zorbo-300x295.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/04\/zorbo.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/benzilla.storenvy.com\/products\/313823-z-is-for-zorbo\"><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\/313823-z-is-for-zorbo\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can follow the other \u201cZ\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>Clearly this creature didn&#8217;t make the saving throw vs. &#8220;butt-cut.&#8221; I actually didn&#8217;t have much choice for my final AlphaBeast: there&#8217;s only one non-sentient, non-zombie (I&#8217;d also exclude zombies for being humanoid\/sentient) Dungeons &amp; Dragons &#8220;Z&#8221; creature in either Monster Manual or the Fiend Folio that has an illustration&#8230; so zorbo it was. I&#8217;m a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=4038\">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-138","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4038"}],"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=4038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4040,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4038\/revisions\/4040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}