{"id":520,"date":"2023-11-09T04:02:03","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T04:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/?p=520"},"modified":"2023-11-09T04:03:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T04:03:35","slug":"xena-virtual-season-the-laurel-tree-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/09\/xena-virtual-season-the-laurel-tree-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Xena Virtual Season: The Laurel Tree 7"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_9138.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"664\" height=\"238\" src=\"http:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_9138.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_9138.jpeg 664w, https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_9138-300x108.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_9138-624x224.jpeg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Xena &amp; Gabrielle share a table with a grateful dad &amp; his kids<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ll wrap up the Laurel Tree ep from the #Xena Virtual Season I worked on 21 years ago with its closing image: a dad &amp; his kids grateful to our heroes Xena &amp; Gabrielle. I gave them a distinctive Little Nemo look here. Little Nemo was drawn by an animator, &amp;\u00a0pretty much any comics artist who worked in animation (like Walt Kelly, of Pogo) is a huge influence on me, as I also studied animation. One of the things I loved doing on the #Xena vs was visualizing the supporting characters: that\u2019s where the artist can expand on the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ll wrap up the Laurel Tree ep from the #Xena Virtual Season I worked on 21 years ago with its closing image: a dad &amp; his kids grateful to our heroes Xena &amp; Gabrielle. I gave them a distinctive Little Nemo look here. Little Nemo was drawn by an animator, &amp;\u00a0pretty much any comics artist [&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-520","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\/520","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=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":522,"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions\/522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}