{"id":235,"date":"2019-12-18T02:34:55","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T02:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenthecaterpillar.com\/?p=235"},"modified":"2019-12-18T02:34:55","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T02:34:55","slug":"when-pets-and-crafts-collide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theophanesavery.com\/glenthecaterpillar\/2019\/12\/18\/when-pets-and-crafts-collide\/","title":{"rendered":"When Pets and Crafts Collide\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I know I should be drawing Christmasy comics this month but it just doesn&#8217;t feel like Christmas this year. Is it the bizarre weather which is throwing intermittent snow storms in between freakish heat waves? Maybe. It feels like April! But I digress. I can&#8217;t exactly take Mother Nature&#8217;s keys even though I know she&#8217;s tanked. SIGH. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ANYWAY, enough about the weather. This week&#8217;s comic is simple, punderful, and I think a bit endearing. I enjoyed drawing it even though I really didn&#8217;t have the time to put into it. Maybe next week will be better! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Making of Glen <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I feel like I haven&#8217;t learned much in the past few comics&#8230; still&#8230; I devised my own method of making feathers (basically drawing an oblong blob and using the finger blur to push the veins of each outwards.) And I used the  same feather resized, given different colors, and rotated, throughout the whole comic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile I did not get stuck on making the snake look realistic. For some reason I didn&#8217;t mind it being a full on green cartoon snake that doesn&#8217;t even look remotely like a boa constrictor. Brains are funny things. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am still struggling to find a consistent &#8220;voice&#8221; for these comics. There&#8217;s not much that links them &#8211; not the subject matter, not their complexity, sometimes not even the way they are drawn! It literally is just pasting a little blue caterpillar in whatever situation my mind sees fit. As far as gaining a wider audience to enjoy him this is a bit like gambling&#8230; but who knows. 2020 is looking promising &#8211; perhaps it&#8217;ll be Glen&#8217;s year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know I should be drawing Christmasy comics this month but it just doesn&#8217;t feel like Christmas this year. Is it the bizarre weather which is throwing intermittent snow storms in between freakish heat waves? Maybe. It feels like April! But I digress. I can&#8217;t exactly take Mother Nature&#8217;s keys even though I know she&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1],"tags":[68,110,111,151,196,274,275,534,652],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-punderful","category-uncategorized","tag-arts-and-crafts","tag-boa-constrictor","tag-boa-snake","tag-caterpillar","tag-crafts","tag-feather","tag-feather-boa","tag-pet","tag-snake","has-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theophanesavery.com\/glenthecaterpillar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","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=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theophanesavery.com\/glenthecaterpillar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theophanesavery.com\/glenthecaterpillar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theophanesavery.com\/glenthecaterpillar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theophanesavery.com\/glenthecaterpillar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theophanesavery.com\/glenthecaterpillar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}