{"id":131,"date":"2007-09-19T15:05:31","date_gmt":"2007-09-19T15:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/?p=131"},"modified":"2013-09-14T14:35:55","modified_gmt":"2013-09-14T14:35:55","slug":"what-could-have-been","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/what-could-have-been\/","title":{"rendered":"What Could Have Been"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some time back I came to the conclusion that I really needed to do more color artwork (especially for Swordmaster Odyssey) that could be used for promotional purposes. I&#8217;ve been trying my best to do so, in part because everytime I ink or color something I get better at it, but also just because the company could really use it. XD<\/p>\n<p>Now, I&#8217;ve noticed that almost everyone who sent a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/swordmaster\/survey\/survey_07_01.php\">SMOdyssey survey<\/a> in noted that they thought the comic needed color. So, out of curiosity and the need to generate more artwork, I took the time today to pick out a page and play &#8220;what if&#8221;. Here&#8217;s what came out:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/artwork\/2007\/3_pg11_color.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/artwork\/2007\/3_pg11_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Swordmaster Odyssey chapter 3, page 11 in full color\" class=\"artwork\"><\/a><br \/>\nYou can click on it for a larger view.<\/p>\n<p>It actually turned out pretty well for a test, I think. The drawback? It took about three hours to paint. Considering the pages already take two to four hours (or more) a pop, that&#8217;s pretty hefty. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some time back I came to the conclusion that I really needed to do more color artwork (especially for Swordmaster Odyssey) that could be used for promotional purposes. I&#8217;ve been trying my best to do so, in part because everytime I ink or color something I get better at it, but also just because the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-swordmaster-odyssey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions\/132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}