{"id":1602,"date":"2015-02-09T04:16:58","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T04:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davepreciado.com\/blog\/?p=1602"},"modified":"2016-07-13T02:14:16","modified_gmt":"2016-07-13T02:14:16","slug":"4am-weirdness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davepreciado.com\/blog\/4am-weirdness\/","title":{"rendered":"4am weirdness"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was 4 a.m. and I could hear rhythmically thumping 4\/4 bass from the nightclub downstairs. \u00a0At the time, I lived right in the CBD (for you North Americans, that means City Business District) next to Cuba street, in the middle of everything. \u00a0Could it have been the club music keeping me up? \u00a0Perhaps. \u00a0It was more likely that coffee I had at 3:30 that afternoon that was just kicking in.<\/p>\n

I got up, grabbed my sketchbook, and put pencil on paper. \u00a0Just a middle of the night doodle.<\/p>\n

\"4am<\/a>

Doodlydoo<\/p><\/div>\n

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Doodlydee<\/p><\/div>\n

After a couple pages of grotesque nonsensical middle-of-the-night depictions, I wanted to push out more ideas for the dog character in my story. \u00a0I poorly attempted some perspective type industrial design drawings of a dog and failed. \u00a0It’s 5am and my hands are doing that caffeine trembling thing, whaddya want? \u00a0These certainly did help me zero in on some shapes for the canine, and I providentially developed an idea I fancied for the boy.<\/p>\n

\"Getting<\/a><\/p>\n

Getting there<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>

I think we have a winner!<\/p><\/div>\n

I wasn’t sure if this were the direction I wanted to go, but at the end of the day I wanted my character to look like my old dog Droopy\u00a0(named after\u00a0\"Droopy_dog\"). \u00a0He was a stout pitbull with a big head and cowpatch markings. \u00a0He was a character himself and really is a large part of the inspiration for this character. \u00a0My story depicts some of the adventures he and I went on when I was younger. \u00a0Droopy was the 2nd dog I had,the 1st being Mugsy. \u00a0Both dogs were my best friends growing up, and we did tons of things together. \u00a0From climbing trees – yes both dogs climbed – to wrestling, playing war, ball and everything else a boy and his dog would do. \u00a0My character resembles\u00a0Droopy, but I named him Mugs.<\/p>\n

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It was 4 a.m. and I could hear rhythmically thumping 4\/4 bass from the nightclub downstairs. \u00a0At the time, I lived right in the CBD (for you North Americans, that means City Business District) next to Cuba street, in the middle of everything. \u00a0Could it have been the club music keeping me up? \u00a0Perhaps. \u00a0It was more likely that coffee I had at 3:30 that afternoon that was just kicking in. I got up, grabbed my sketchbook, and put pencil on paper. \u00a0Just a middle of the night doodle. After a couple pages of grotesque nonsensical middle-of-the-night depictions, I wanted to push out more ideas for the dog character in my story. \u00a0I poorly attempted some perspective type industrial design drawings of a dog and failed. \u00a0It’s 5am and my hands are doing that caffeine trembling thing, whaddya want? \u00a0These certainly did help me zero in on some shapes for the canine, and I providentially developed an idea I fancied for the boy. Getting there   I wasn’t sure if this were the direction I wanted to go, but at the end of the day I wanted my character to look like my old dog Droopy\u00a0(named after\u00a0). \u00a0He was a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[73,74,60,72,69,70,62,71,59],"class_list":["post-1602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-boy","tag-cartoon","tag-concept","tag-dog","tag-doodle","tag-drawing","tag-ideas","tag-night","tag-sketch","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davepreciado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davepreciado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davepreciado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davepreciado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davepreciado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1602"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.davepreciado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1616,"href":"https:\/\/www.davepreciado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions\/1616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davepreciado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davepreciado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davepreciado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davepreciado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}