{"id":20441,"date":"2010-05-05T10:48:33","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T15:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?wpsc-product=first-there-was-the-scribble-by-brad-w-foster"},"modified":"2010-05-05T10:48:33","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T15:48:33","slug":"first-there-was-the-scribble-by-brad-w-foster","status":"publish","type":"wpsc-product","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?wpsc-product=first-there-was-the-scribble-by-brad-w-foster","title":{"rendered":"First There Was The Scribble by Brad W. Foster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anybody out there with writer&#8217;s block? Is that even the right term for  somebody who is creatively blocked from making new comic characters?  Anyway, if you have whatever the right term for that is, you should  maybe look at this book. The title sums it up pretty well: start with a  scribble, and try not to have any preconceived notions about it. Make it  a genuine doodle. Then take a minute to examine the doodle and see what  you can some up with out of it. This comic contains Brad&#8217;s first  attempt at this and the second mini comic he put out on this theme. The  first shows Brad&#8217;s attempts of making art out of doodles. Some of them  are more impressive than others, naturally, but there are some seriously  impressive images in here. The second section includes doodles and  their results by Jamie Adler, Bob Conway, John Cosgriff, John Howard,  Dave Miller, Reg Platt, Roldo, Jim Ryan, Dan W. Taylor, Edd Vick and  Keith Woods. Don&#8217;t be alarmed if you&#8217;ve never heard of some of those  names, as this book was first released in 1994. Different perspectives  added a lot to the experience, as Jim Ryan named all the characters he  created and Reg Platt put together a Sherlock Holmes story from his  characters. Brad points out that a few of the doodles in the second half  are cheaters, but hey, why not? Nobody is keeping score and the whole  point of the exercise is a new outlet to express creativity. It&#8217;s an  interesting project that some of you creative types should maybe try if  your current output it mostly theoretical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_wpsc_stock":"5","_wpsc_price":"1.75","_wpsc_special_price":"1.75","_wpsc_sku":"","footnotes":""},"product_tag":[],"wpsc_product_category":[5744,4747],"wpsc-variation":[],"class_list":["post-20441","wpsc-product","type-wpsc-product","status-publish","hentry","wpsc_product_category-brad-w-foster","wpsc_product_category-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/wpsc-product\/20441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/wpsc-product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/wpsc-product"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/wpsc-product\/20441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_tag&post=20441"},{"taxonomy":"wpsc_product_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fwpsc_product_category&post=20441"},{"taxonomy":"wpsc-variation","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fwpsc-variation&post=20441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}