{"id":749,"date":"2006-12-11T11:58:31","date_gmt":"2006-12-11T15:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/12\/11\/my-progeny-simpsonified\/"},"modified":"2006-12-11T11:58:31","modified_gmt":"2006-12-11T15:58:31","slug":"my-progeny-simpsonified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/11\/my-progeny-simpsonified\/","title":{"rendered":"My progeny Simpsonified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangeadventures.com\/\">local comic shop<\/a> had local Renaissance man<footnote>What else do you call someone who is a <a href=\"http:\/\/profile.myspace.com\/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&#038;friendid=98441122\">sketch comic<\/a>, a <a href=\"http:\/\/the-big-mo.livejournal.com\/15781.html#cutid1\">puppeteer<\/a>, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecoast.ca\/LargeImageWindow.lasso?-token.largeimage=\/editorial\/2006-06-15\/bfelg.jpg\">cartoonist<\/a>, a bon vivant, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onipress.com\/graphicnovels\/gn.php?id=153\">a comic book artist<\/a>, among other things?<\/footnote> <a href=\"http:\/\/the-big-mo.livejournal.com\/\">Mike Holmes<\/a> in the store doing Simpsons-style caricatures of people who came by.<\/p>\n<p>While I passed on the chance, for fear of looking a little too much like Comic Book Guy in the finished result, Sarah was quite excited about the opportunity. I am fairly certain that she totally charmed Mike while she was being drawn. She was very pleased with the results&#8211;in fact, she quite proudly posed for the shop&#8217;s owner to take a picture that will probably be posted soon. (The shop has snapshots from the <a href=\"http:\/\/homepage.mac.com\/strangeadventures\/simpsons.html\">first<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/homepage.mac.com\/strangeadventures\/simpsons%20fredericton.html\">two<\/a> times they did this, if you are interested.)<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a scan of the original sketch:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2006\/12\/SarahSimpson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2006\/12\/_SarahSimpson.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Original Sketch\" title=\"Original Sketch\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can see where Mike worked it out in the bluelines, and then inked in the image.<\/p>\n<p>I cleaned up the scan, taking it to black and white, and removing smudges and scanner artifacts:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2006\/12\/SarahSimpson_BW.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2006\/12\/_SarahSimpson_BW.jpg\" width=\"235\" height=\"300\" alt=\"B&#038;W cleaned version\" title=\"B&#038;W cleaned version\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And then I coloured it in this morning with some help from Sarah, to get this final result:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2006\/12\/SarahSimpson_colour.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2006\/12\/_SarahSimpson_colour.jpg\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Sarah as a Simpsons character\" title=\"Sarah as a Simpsons character\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">This weekend my local comic shop had local Renaissance manWhat else do you call someone who is a sketch comic, a puppeteer, a cartoonist, a bon vivant, and a comic book artist, among other things? Mike Holmes in the store doing Simpsons-style caricatures of people who came by. While I passed on the chance, for fear of looking a little&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/11\/my-progeny-simpsonified\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-storytime","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-c5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}