{"id":495,"date":"2023-11-03T03:43:46","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T03:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/?p=495"},"modified":"2023-11-08T05:43:20","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T05:43:20","slug":"virtual-season-the-laurel-tree-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/03\/virtual-season-the-laurel-tree-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Season: The Laurel Tree #1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_9128.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"321\" height=\"233\" src=\"http:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_9128.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_9128.jpeg 321w, https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_9128-300x218.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 321px) 100vw, 321px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Xena, Gabrielle and Argo II<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the first drawing I contributed to a #Xena virtual season in late 2001 I believe. I joined it halfway into its \u201c7th season\u201d. The name of this ep was \u201cThe Laurel Tree,\u201d a beautiful elegiac tale. This particular vs had a number of eps like that, which suits my mood.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was influenced by the classic film To Kill a Mockingbird. You\u2019ll notice Gab\u2019s outfit is different than the tv show. Keep in mind this is after A Friend in Need, so she still has her tattoo, &amp; she\u2019s more armored, due to having wielded the chakram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I didn\u2019t design the costume. The vs had an editorial team that designed new costumes, etc&nbsp; for the main characters, as needed, then supplied the models to guest artists (like me). I think&nbsp; I made her hair slightly longer to show passage of time from AFIN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first drawing I contributed to a #Xena virtual season in late 2001 I believe. I joined it halfway into its \u201c7th season\u201d. The name of this ep was \u201cThe Laurel Tree,\u201d a beautiful elegiac tale. This particular vs had a number of eps like that, which suits my mood.&nbsp; It was influenced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtual-season","category-xena"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":497,"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions\/497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}