{"id":2852,"date":"2013-12-26T19:26:20","date_gmt":"2013-12-26T18:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2852"},"modified":"2013-12-26T19:26:20","modified_gmt":"2013-12-26T18:26:20","slug":"death-of-smaug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/2013\/12\/death-of-smaug\/","title":{"rendered":"Death of Smaug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was sketching dragons again recently, well I often sketch dragons but this time there was a purpose, the theme of the month over at john-howe.com for December was Dragons. As a certain dragon was on my mind with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B0095HHNS6\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=19450&amp;creativeASIN=B0095HHNS6&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=dasfo-21\" target=\"_blank\">Desolation of Smaug<\/a> hitting the silver screen* I ended up wondering how Smaug would look after the black arrow had done its job \ud83d\ude09 This was a fun dragon to work on, well any character from Tolkien is fun to attempt &#8211; rather than use traditional medium I worked in Painter 12 so that I could tinker with the tint to try and achieve an underwater colour cast.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/death-of-smaug-700.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2851\" alt=\"Death of Smaug\" src=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/death-of-smaug-700.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/death-of-smaug-700.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/death-of-smaug-700-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/death-of-smaug-700-240x172.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>*Is it still a <em>silver<\/em> screen?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was sketching dragons again recently, well I often sketch dragons but this time there was a purpose, the theme of the month over at john-howe.com for December was Dragons. As a certain dragon was on my mind with the Desolation of Smaug hitting the silver screen* I ended up wondering how Smaug would look after the black arrow had done its job \ud83d\ude09 This was a fun dragon to work on, well any character from Tolkien is fun to attempt &#8211; rather than use traditional medium I worked in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[70,158,52,54,19],"class_list":["post-2852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-dragon","tag-hobbit","tag-illustration","tag-john-howe","tag-tolkien"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2853,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852\/revisions\/2853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}