{"id":524,"date":"2023-11-10T05:47:44","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T05:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/?p=524"},"modified":"2023-11-10T05:47:44","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T05:47:44","slug":"xena-virtual-season-the-battle-of-amphipolis-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/10\/xena-virtual-season-the-battle-of-amphipolis-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Xena Virtual Season; The Battle of Amphipolis 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_9139.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"249\" src=\"http:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_9139.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_9139.jpeg 320w, https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_9139-300x233.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Young Xena defies her mother Cyrene as their home as a warlord\u2019s army approaches.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The next ep I illustrated for the Xena virtual season was The Battle of Amphipolis. I very much liked this story, &amp; it ended up influencing my current project, a Xena webcomic, Rock of Ages. Xena reunites with her brother Toris in season 7, both wrestling with guilt over the\u00a0death of their mother, burned as a witch years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s a lot of flashbacks to Xena\u2019s teen years predating the warlord attack that would come to define her. I thought her psychological portrait connected the dots in her story, from the pilot to AFIN. This inspired me to take a similar approach with Eve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My drawing skills aren\u2019t as sharp in this ep, so I\u2019ll only post a few. I had begun to spend more time researching, since my knowledge of the show at this time (21 years ago) was mostly seasons 4-6, since that\u2019s when I began watching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 1st Xena dvd wasn\u2019t released until 2002, after I\u2019d left the vs, so I depended on vhs tapes of select eps, &amp; relied a lot on Whoosh &amp; the many screenshot libraries that existed back then. This vs ep was based on Death Mask, a season 1 ep, not popular with the fandom so\u00a0difficult to find.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The drawing above is a teenage #Xena bickering with her mom, Cyrene. I really liked these scenes, &amp; I think they very likely inspired my portrayal of Salmoneus\u2019s difficulties with his daughter in my upcoming project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next ep I illustrated for the Xena virtual season was The Battle of Amphipolis. I very much liked this story, &amp; it ended up influencing my current project, a Xena webcomic, Rock of Ages. Xena reunites with her brother Toris in season 7, both wrestling with guilt over the\u00a0death of their mother, burned as [&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-524","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\/524","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=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":525,"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions\/525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}