{"id":1448,"date":"2014-09-11T00:01:19","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T04:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tellest.com\/?p=1448"},"modified":"2020-08-26T07:38:43","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T11:38:43","slug":"art-dirk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/art-dirk\/","title":{"rendered":"Art: Dirk"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I began pursuing artists for the Tellest series, I looked for styles that I really enjoyed. \u00a0We have Joman’s Kingdom Hearts-esque characters, Paul’s almost World of Warcraft-like concepts, and the gorgeous covers that Leo’s done.<\/p>\n

For Dirk, I wanted something that was a little more to his style. \u00a0For that, I reached out to Amorpheus on DeviantArt. \u00a0He’s known for his anthropomorphic characters, and while it might seem a little odd to commission an artist who is known for his “furry” work, I thought he’d give Dirk his best shot.<\/p>\n

We started off with some head shapes and orientations.<\/p>\n

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\"Dirk<\/a>
\nWe felt that this one was a bit too big, and it had some color issues that didn’t strictly leave us feeling like that was Dirk.<\/p>\n

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\"Dirk<\/a>
\nThis one was the perfect shape and size, but we still had some issues with color presentation. His fur is a lot lighter in the books.<\/p>\n

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So after we realized what we wanted him to look like, Amorpheus took things to the next step, and delivered us a version of Dirk that had a nice dynamic looking background, and of course a color scheme that really worked for the wolf we know and love.<\/p>\n

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Note the white marking on his forehead that almost look like it could be a dirk.<\/p>\n

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We plan on utilizing Amorpheus’ services again in the future. \u00a0He did a great job with this version of Dirk, and hey… there might be other versions we have to do of him too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I began pursuing artists for the Tellest series, I looked for styles that I really enjoyed. \u00a0We have Joman’s Kingdom Hearts-esque characters, Paul’s almost World of Warcraft-like concepts, and the gorgeous covers that Leo’s done. For Dirk, I wanted something that was a little more to his style. \u00a0For that, I reached out to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[346],"tags":[596,599,327,363,597,229,598],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Dirk1.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1UVey-nm","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1448"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23122,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448\/revisions\/23122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}