{"id":604,"date":"2023-12-03T05:53:26","date_gmt":"2023-12-03T05:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/?p=604"},"modified":"2023-12-03T05:53:26","modified_gmt":"2023-12-03T05:53:26","slug":"xena-virtual-season-7-go-west-young-warrior-part-2-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/03\/xena-virtual-season-7-go-west-young-warrior-part-2-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Xena Virtual Season 7: Go West Young Warrior Part 2-5"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9274.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"249\" height=\"327\" src=\"http:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9274.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-603\" srcset=\"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9274.jpeg 249w, https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9274-228x300.jpeg 228w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Early sketch of Queen Guila of the South American Amazons<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The main antagonist of Go West Young Warrior Part 2 (&amp; Part 3) of the #Xena Virtual Season 7 is its queen of the South American Amazons, Guila. She was well written, formidable &amp; and good rival for Gabrielle\u2019s queen status. I pictured her resembling Patricia Velasquez (\u201cThe Mummy\u201d),\u00a0who\u2019s a native of this region, &amp; works on behalf of indigenous rights in Venezuela. This is a very early concept sketch (you can tell because I\u2019m still going with the topless concept), but 3 elements of this costume are part of the final design: her loincloth, her feather headdress, &amp;\u00a0a 3-pronged dagger with supernatural powers.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t design the dagger, but I chose the headdress, which I based on designs of the region, &amp; it reminded me of Anthony Hopkins\u2019 costume in Titus. Both of them inspired the Roman antagonist in my current project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The main antagonist of Go West Young Warrior Part 2 (&amp; Part 3) of the #Xena Virtual Season 7 is its queen of the South American Amazons, Guila. She was well written, formidable &amp; and good rival for Gabrielle\u2019s queen status. I pictured her resembling Patricia Velasquez (\u201cThe Mummy\u201d),\u00a0who\u2019s a native of this region, &amp; [&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-604","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\/604","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=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":605,"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions\/605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}