{"id":539,"date":"2023-11-14T04:49:52","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T04:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/?p=539"},"modified":"2023-11-14T04:51:10","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T04:51:10","slug":"xena-virtual-season-truth-or-dare-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/14\/xena-virtual-season-truth-or-dare-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Xena Virtual Season: Truth or Dare 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_9147.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_9147.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-538\" width=\"304\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_9147.jpeg 399w, https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_9147-298x300.jpeg 298w, https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_9147-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 304px) 100vw, 304px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Young Gabrielle is inspired by Thea, a traveling bard<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Shortly after Battle of Amphipolis, I illustrated another #Xena Virtual Season\u00a0 ep by the same author: Truth or Dare, which explored Gabrielle\u2019s younger days. I changed my style &amp; added color this time. This scene shows a 12 year old Gab meeting a traveling bard, Thea, in her 30s who encourages Gab to believe in herself &amp; her dreams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My task was to portray a bard who exuded confidence &amp; fearless independence, qualities that Gab herself would demonstrate in #Xena\u2019s pilot ep. I don\u2019t remember if I based Thea on an actress, or just tried to summon those qualities &amp; that\u2019s what I ended up with. She\u2019s described as blond, but red-gold hair seemed right. To me, this looks more like an animation cell, than a comic book panel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly after Battle of Amphipolis, I illustrated another #Xena Virtual Season\u00a0 ep by the same author: Truth or Dare, which explored Gabrielle\u2019s younger days. I changed my style &amp; added color this time. This scene shows a 12 year old Gab meeting a traveling bard, Thea, in her 30s who encourages Gab to believe in [&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-539","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\/539","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=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":542,"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions\/542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}