{"id":208,"date":"2019-11-20T12:56:32","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T12:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenthecaterpillar.com\/?p=208"},"modified":"2019-11-20T12:56:32","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T12:56:32","slug":"glen-didnt-start-the-fire-never-mind-he-totally-started-the-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theophanesavery.com\/glenthecaterpillar\/2019\/11\/20\/glen-didnt-start-the-fire-never-mind-he-totally-started-the-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Glen didn’t start the fire… Never mind, he totally started the fire."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Recently\nI watched Interview with a Vampire in it’s entirety <\/em>and it was hilarious. <\/em>Don’t get me wrong – I have crazy mad respect for Anne Rice, she’s still\nthe only author I have ever come across that can make me vomit with her words –\nand I mean this as a compliment not a criticism. I was reading William S\nBurrough’s in my mid-teens and the visceral descriptions of gangrenous heroin\nusage didn’t make me bat and eye but Anne Rice writing about her vampires\nfeeding? That sent me flying to the bathroom twice. <\/em>RESPECT.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe\nthat’s why I find the need to relentlessly make fun of vampires. I don’t\nknow… but Glen is more than happy to indulge me in this. So here he is all\nfloofy and fluffed burning shit down just like in the movie (and I presume book?)\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile\nwe see Depressed Teddy in the background getting a little mixed up in it all\nfor that adorably disturbing touch as if having a fire bug in the foreground\nwasn\u2019t enough. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course while I drew this Billy Joel\u2019s We Didn\u2019t Start the Fire<\/a> was blaring through my head. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Making of Glen <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I\ndon\u2019t even know how long I spent on this week\u2019s comic. I lost count of the\nhours. Apparently drawing fire with absolutely no experience or instruction is\nobscenely difficult. And conflicting because I want it to look real\u2026 but this\nis a comic and nothing else looks real sooo\u2026. What is my problem? I DON\u2019T KNOW.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Suffice\nto say I started out with this little attempt all on my own. It\u2019s cute. And I\nthink the idea of fire is pretty good here. It\u2019s basically just a \u201cfor effect\u201d\npen in different colors. Not bad\u2026 but it does sort of also look like crate\npaper blowing on a fan\u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then\nI looked it up on YouTube and wow \u2013 were those tutorials shit. The first one told\nme to just do the same thing but add some blurring effects. Somehow it came out\nlooking weirdly like a big smudgy pastel blob which was super disappointing at I\nspent about 300 unnecessary steps making it. Pushed all sorts of weird buttons\u2026.\nStill don\u2019t know what half of them were supposed to do. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And\nthen I watched another tutorial \u2013 with no sound \u2013 which was fun. That one told\nme I should draw the flame free hand in vaguely squiggly blobs, overlay different\nlighter colors of vaguely squiggly blobs, and blur the crap out of it manually\nrather than with a filter as the first suggested. The first time I tried this\nit came out PERFECT. And then I wasn\u2019t able to do it again\u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile I came across additional struggles when I decided to draw Depressed Teddy. I really want to add him to more comics doing a Harold and Maude<\/a> sort of gag in the background \u2013 mocking scenes of suicide for attention\u2026 I hope people get the humor in this or at least the reference! Else it comes off as odd. That being said it\u2019s not easy drawing a teddy bear and AGAIN I find myself wanting it to look more realistic\u2026. Whhhhyyyy\u2026. I don\u2019t know. Maybe I am going somewhere with this drawing thing and it isn\u2019t normal comics? God forbid I start drawing everything in 3D. Please send help. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Recently I watched Interview with a Vampire in it’s entirety and it was hilarious. Don’t get me wrong – I have crazy mad respect for Anne Rice, she’s still the only author I have ever come across that can make me vomit with her words – and I mean this as a compliment not a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,13,15,1],"tags":[64,65,132,279,280,322,392,583,764],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-literary-inspiration","category-lyrical-inspiration","category-movie-inspiration","category-punderful","category-uncategorized","tag-arson","tag-arsonist","tag-burn-it-all","tag-fire","tag-fire-bug","tag-glen-the-caterpillar","tag-interview-with-a-vampire","tag-pyromaniac","tag-vampire","has-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theophanesavery.com\/glenthecaterpillar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theophanesavery.com\/glenthecaterpillar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theophanesavery.com\/glenthecaterpillar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theophanesavery.com\/glenthecaterpillar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theophanesavery.com\/glenthecaterpillar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theophanesavery.com\/glenthecaterpillar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theophanesavery.com\/glenthecaterpillar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theophanesavery.com\/glenthecaterpillar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theophanesavery.com\/glenthecaterpillar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theophanesavery.com\/glenthecaterpillar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}