{"id":468,"date":"2010-10-16T21:58:33","date_gmt":"2010-10-16T20:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/?p=468"},"modified":"2010-10-16T21:58:33","modified_gmt":"2010-10-16T20:58:33","slug":"halloween-rabbits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/16\/halloween-rabbits\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween Rabbits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a little early for Halloween yet, but it is creeping up. I&#8217;ve been getting ready by drawing some Halloween bunnies for my Cafepress shop.<\/p>\n<p>When I&#8217;m drawing I start with a pencil sketch, then ink the drawing with a pen, then scan it and do some computer wizardry to trace the lines and remove the white background ready to colour (if I want to). Here is an example:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_472\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/therabbithouse\/7373150\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-472\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-472 \" title=\"Bunny in a Pumkin\" src=\"http:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/pumkinbunny_blog.jpg\" alt=\"bunny popping out of a pumpkin\" width=\"550\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/pumkinbunny_blog.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/pumkinbunny_blog-300x125.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-472\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rabbit popping out of a Halloween pumpkin, 1 - sketch, 2 - Inked, 3 Scanned<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The scan is usually a closer copy of the original inked picture, but I was playing around with the settings and I liked it. This one is definitely Scamp influenced &#8211; I can see him thinking a Halloween pumpkin\u00a0 is a perfect bunny toy. It would probably have a few more chew marks though!<\/p>\n<p>These Halloween bunnies are more cartoony but they start the same way, sketched, inked &amp; scanned:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/blog_trickortreat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-469\" title=\"Trick or Treat Rabbits\" src=\"http:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/blog_trickortreat.jpg\" alt=\"Halloween Rabbit Sketches\" width=\"550\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/blog_trickortreat.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/blog_trickortreat-300x128.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I ended up colouring them in though, and here&#8217;s the end result:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/therabbithouse\/7373117\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-470\" title=\"Rabbit Cartoon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/halloweenrabbits_blog.jpg\" alt=\"wizard rabbit, vampire rabbit, ghost rabbit\" width=\"400\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/halloweenrabbits_blog.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/halloweenrabbits_blog-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The bunny in the middle reminds me of Scamp too &#8211; the cheeky grin, not that he has fangs!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a little early for Halloween yet, but it is creeping up. I&#8217;ve been getting ready by drawing some Halloween bunnies for my Cafepress shop. When I&#8217;m drawing I start with a pencil sketch, then ink the drawing with a pen, then scan it and do some computer wizardry to trace the lines and remove [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[51],"tags":[40],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":480,"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions\/480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}