{"id":879,"date":"2013-12-15T10:55:36","date_gmt":"2013-12-15T17:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/?p=879"},"modified":"2015-01-16T15:39:44","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T22:39:44","slug":"the-reluctant-dragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/the-reluctant-dragon\/","title":{"rendered":"The Reluctant Dragon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Reluctant_Dragon_%28film%29\">Reluctant Dragon<\/a> is one of my favorite Disney shorts. The basic premise is that there is a dragon discovered by the villagers of a town. Fearful of the dragon they bring in a dragon slayer. The Dragon however is not ferocious, and prefers to write poetry. At any rate, it&#8217;s a delightful short cartoon with very whimsical characters. I&#8217;ve always cared for the dragon&#8217;s care-free spirit, so I decided to immortalize one of his many signature poses.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-881\" alt=\"Dragon_small\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Dragon_small1-450x300.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Dragon_small1-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Dragon_small1.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This was mostly done in Photoshop. The basic outlines were done in Illustrator, then brought into Photoshop where I tried to shade it all. It&#8217;s not perfect, but the likeness is certainly there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Reluctant Dragon is one of my favorite Disney shorts. The basic premise is that there is a dragon discovered by the villagers of a town. Fearful of the dragon they bring in a dragon slayer. The Dragon however is not ferocious, and prefers to write poetry. At any rate, it&#8217;s a delightful short cartoon &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/the-reluctant-dragon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Reluctant Dragon<\/span><\/a><\/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-879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=879"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":907,"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions\/907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}