{"id":341,"date":"2013-07-19T18:02:23","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T22:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.craigtaillefer.com\/?p=337"},"modified":"2020-09-08T17:31:06","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T17:31:06","slug":"more-lemon-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.craigtaillefer.com\/wordpress\/2013\/07\/19\/more-lemon-drop\/","title":{"rendered":"More Lemon Drop!"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I took on this project, my idea was to draw the story in a 1930’s\/40’s newspaper comic strip style. I wanted to go for a cross between Milton Caniff and Roy Crane.<\/p>\n

By the time I had done the character designs I’d dropped the idea of ape-ing a specific artists style, but what I kept was the idea of simplifying the facial details a-la Roy Crane and letting my cartoonier aspects out in a way I wouldn’t in a straight adventure strip. I also tried to reign in my Alex Raymond\/ Hal Foster influenced inking style and go for a wetter, thicker style like Caniff. I’m not sure how successful I’ve been, but I think I emulated the feel of the era fairly well.<\/p>\n

Here’s another sneak peek.<\/p>\n

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When I took on this project, my idea was to draw the story in a 1930’s\/40’s newspaper comic strip style. I wanted to go for a cross between Milton Caniff and Roy Crane. By the time I had done the character designs I’d dropped the idea of ape-ing a specific artists style, but what I […]<\/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":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-comics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8mGah-5v","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigtaillefer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","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=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigtaillefer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1587,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigtaillefer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions\/1587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigtaillefer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigtaillefer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigtaillefer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}