{"id":515,"date":"2023-11-08T05:46:23","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T05:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/?p=515"},"modified":"2023-11-08T05:46:23","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T05:46:23","slug":"xena-virtual-season-the-laurel-tree-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/08\/xena-virtual-season-the-laurel-tree-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Xena Virtual Season: The Laurel Tree 6"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_9137.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"332\" height=\"236\" src=\"http:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_9137.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_9137.jpeg 332w, https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_9137-300x213.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 332px) 100vw, 332px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Soldier wielding a gorytos<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This drawing from the #Xena Virtual Season ep, The Laurel Tree, shows iirc a soldier with a gorytos, an ancient Greek quiver. (actually Scythian). It was specified in the script, but I came across a pic of an ornate one found in Philip of Macedonia\u2019s tomb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Generally, when I illustrated a teleplay, it was given me by the editorial staff. I didn\u2019t really interact with the author. This was how they did it on the show as well. I would try to discover the author\u2019s intent, while expanding on it using my own research.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I would also try to look for any patterns in the story that could influence my choices. It didn\u2019t matter whether those patterns were intentional: if they were there, for any reason, I\u2019d use them. In this case, I did hear from the author, afterwards, who told me I picked exactly&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the right design for the gorytos. So I was very pleased. She was very nice, &amp; would later write another ep in season 8 I was looking forward to illustrating, but wasn\u2019t able to, as I had other commitments by then. Btw: you know this character is evil by the off-kilter angle!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This drawing from the #Xena Virtual Season ep, The Laurel Tree, shows iirc a soldier with a gorytos, an ancient Greek quiver. (actually Scythian). It was specified in the script, but I came across a pic of an ornate one found in Philip of Macedonia\u2019s tomb. Generally, when I illustrated a teleplay, it was given [&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-515","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\/515","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=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":516,"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions\/516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}