{"id":21791,"date":"2017-03-07T06:50:52","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T11:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=21791"},"modified":"2019-11-26T10:04:31","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T15:04:31","slug":"atomic-warrior-v-pink-zeppelin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2017\/03\/07\/atomic-warrior-v-pink-zeppelin\/","title":{"rendered":"Atomic Warrior V Pink Zeppelin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Atomic Warrior VS Pink Zeppelin\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/32396907973\/in\/dateposted\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c1.staticflickr.com\/1\/586\/32396907973_91a71f495d_z.jpg?resize=640%2C417&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Atomic Warrior VS Pink Zeppelin\" width=\"640\" height=\"417\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>More fun with Derwent&#8217;s water soluble pencils and the <a href=\"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2017\/02\/23\/the-sketchbook-from-heaven\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sketchbook from Heaven.<\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The creature on the left is <em>The Atomic Warrior<\/em> which I first cooked up a couple of years ago as a homemade <a href=\"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/11\/02\/genesis-of-the-atomic-warrior-costume\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Halloween costume for my son<\/a>. My original notion was <em>&#8220;What if Star Wars was made at a different time with no budget?&#8221;<\/em> It would have been dumped into kiddie matinees and remembered as well and as fondly as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SRaXI8O1IKM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Laserblast<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The creature on the right is <em>Pink Zeppelin<\/em> &#8212; a nightmare from my high school years. This twisted behemoth came to life as part of a diabolical experiment gone horribly wrong resulting in a two-headed fan of <em>Led Zeppelin<\/em> and <em>Pink Floyd<\/em> circa 1979. After the apocalypse which happened around 1980 or so, this monstrosity holed up at <em>The Sound Odyssey<\/em> record store at the <em>Cherry Hill Mall<\/em> guarding the precious vinyl records within and waiting for scavengers to feed upon.<\/p>\n<p>The gauntlet\/forearm protector\/shield things that the <em>Atomic Warrior<\/em> is blocking with are a little clunky, and I need to figure out how to present them a little better. They are based on <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/toner-carton.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cardboard forms<\/a> used to ship industrial tubes of copier toner that I used for my son&#8217;s Halloween costume. I&#8217;ll either have to reconfigure them on paper or rebuild the costume and <em>draw from life!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More fun with Derwent&#8217;s water soluble pencils and the Sketchbook from Heaven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[49],"tags":[158,4057,17,8,312,9,4083,4076,4085,20,3661,4084,5,4086,23,4081,3663,25,4082,480,4059],"class_list":["post-21791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-came-from-the-sketchbook","tag-analog","tag-atomic-warrior","tag-cartoon","tag-cartoons","tag-comic","tag-comics","tag-dark-wash","tag-derwent","tag-grayscale","tag-handmade","tag-illustration","tag-ink-wash","tag-joe-williams","tag-monochrome","tag-monster","tag-pink-zeppelin","tag-sketch","tag-sketchbook","tag-two-headed-monster","tag-usa","tag-water-solulble-graphite"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-5Ft","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":35965,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2021\/05\/18\/do-not-double-stack\/","url_meta":{"origin":21791,"position":0},"title":"DO NOT DOUBLE STACK","author":"Joe","date":"May 18, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Another sketchbook laid to rest. 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