{"id":320,"date":"2010-06-16T14:23:37","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T18:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.craigtaillefer.com\/?p=315"},"modified":"2020-09-08T17:36:39","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T17:36:39","slug":"al-williamson-tribute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.craigtaillefer.com\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/16\/al-williamson-tribute\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Williamson Tribute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comictwart.com\">ComicTwart<\/a> they are doing an Al Williamson Tribute. I don&#8217;t follow the ComicTwart Blog regularly, though I should as a few friends are involved.<\/p>\n<p>Al Williamson was a huge influence on me at a time in the the early &#8217;90&#8217;s when my work was making the transition from promising amateurishness to early pro-level (though, oddly enough it was after I crossed that threshold that work started to be harder to find) and for a time drawing as much like Al Williamson as I could without slavishly swiping was the goal. I&#8217;ve moved away from that in the last ten years or so, though more due to the subject matter of the work I do than any loss of interest in the Alex Raymond\/Hal Foster school of Art that Al synthesized so well.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the Comic Twart theme of the week got me inspired and I decided to join the fun. I sketched this out last night in between pages of script of the latest storyboard. If I can squeeze in the time, I&#8217;ll try to ink it before the end of the week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>EDIT<\/strong> &#8211; Here are the inks fresh off the tablet!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.craigtaillefer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/al_will_twart_inks.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.craigtaillefer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/al_will_twart_inks.jpg?resize=648%2C996&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" title=\"al_will_twart_inks\" width=\"648\" height=\"996\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-317\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.craigtaillefer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/alwilliamsontwart.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.craigtaillefer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/alwilliamsontwart.jpg?resize=495%2C751&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" title=\"alwilliamsontwart\" width=\"495\" height=\"751\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-316\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over-sized mushrooms and little spotted lizards say &#8220;Al Williamson&#8221; to me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at ComicTwart they are doing an Al Williamson Tribute. 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Al Williamson was a huge influence on me at a time in the the early &#8217;90&#8217;s when my work was making the transition from promising amateurishness to early pro-level [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-sketchbook"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8mGah-5a","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigtaillefer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigtaillefer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigtaillefer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigtaillefer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigtaillefer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigtaillefer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1593,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigtaillefer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions\/1593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigtaillefer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigtaillefer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigtaillefer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}