{"id":216,"date":"2021-03-22T21:09:10","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T21:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seedsofdawn.com\/comic\/?p=216"},"modified":"2021-03-22T23:25:07","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T23:25:07","slug":"why-comic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seedsofdawn.com\/comic\/blog\/why-comic\/","title":{"rendered":"Why a Comic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tmpl-portfolio-2 boldgrid-section dynamic-gridblock\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\" style=\"padding: 20px 0;\">\n<div class=\"col-md-7 col-sm-12 col-xs-12 align-column-top\">\n<h2 class=\"\" style=\"margin: 0 0 25px;\">Why a Comic?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"\">I have drawn horses for as long as I can remember.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Other children would tease me in school because horses littered the margins of my school notebooks and I rarely drew anything else.<\/p>\n<p>So when I tried to write Seeds of Dawn as a novel and decided it needed a more visual format, I decided a comic would be a better medium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Of course, there are lots of hurdles with that!&nbsp; While many characters are horses, many characters are also humanoids.&nbsp; I hadn&#8217;t practiced humans much, nor do I know much about comics, but I decided to give it a try.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">I&#8217;m documenting what I do as I go so that others can learn as I learn.&nbsp; I also want others to see that drawing skills do improve with practice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Onward!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-5 col-sm-6 col-xs-12\">\n<figure style=\"width: 1574px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/2e8qteuDzP_V925en5gy0nTfh1AzoC_kzM_VyqoMDoUYj8c4vfcPDypEKO_Cv-9SqRaqqqq3QVrfwXxJEQZbP-cwH1PYRUGT1tDZ7M7WDxvffnVapcYofANKtknNczdLhckGy3U3IDRGjFkB8552ysl7qgdqbFzc-Zj72it14iFu7ewAlTX5nEN6bsFkTIBYCyL8eovtcz9jEj1O6o-9blFUbFmDAFJqWFUOGg1AeIebO12R8Ymo3rygTg4TiLKnkjZtJcGddma6JSgcWL53yhF2DBUY9uVxpMR5Oshx74Q0DzY9x_uIohXeqxOo1y4XLqzESUXPWawGjeIAQ8K3xiAGPtZZ0kef-xLHFy9jauzUOw3aHQmpzOjZTXeZ38DMwUG9eJg3-13Ys3Z0nfDVXcI_th_x_Rdwxcx4tRnkTcVwTifbCLMsBR-YeoQ3FeFXTg6xMf6mQUzz2BBTlT6UXulTP2BDfMnX45T5dPSjbMeLS84slKinpY5RSiDAlA3Hg7lEDyfhCXm7Gt93nU9J9dzxWCH0ZicLEAK8GQ2TlRS7dMBGU1cMSumKMZnFKb3lH_CuqXOlJVw_8XGfg-Mauf5nGP9blLhkpdGIa_Io_YCCledijeoqK07iN87A2jpZ3U9SweyGbEr7E7x5km9axw3fH_Mn0M4s3_3QeNdRErXeUjX4skNKDPDtumSg8GiGQyavK0DXQ-rFBvRg7UyngFwJ=w1576-h1057-no?authuser=0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1574\" height=\"1056\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Knight&#8217;s horse drawn in ~2000.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"boldgrid-section\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-sm-12\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why a Comic? I have drawn horses for as long as I can remember. Other children would tease me in school because horses littered the margins of my school notebooks and I rarely drew anything else. So when I tried to write Seeds of Dawn as a novel and decided it needed a more visual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seedsofdawn.com\/comic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seedsofdawn.com\/comic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seedsofdawn.com\/comic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seedsofdawn.com\/comic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seedsofdawn.com\/comic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seedsofdawn.com\/comic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218,"href":"http:\/\/www.seedsofdawn.com\/comic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions\/218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seedsofdawn.com\/comic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seedsofdawn.com\/comic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seedsofdawn.com\/comic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}