{"id":19,"date":"2010-10-28T08:30:24","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T15:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peteventers.com\/blog\/?p=19"},"modified":"2010-10-28T11:06:40","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T18:06:40","slug":"altzur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peteventers.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/28\/altzur\/","title":{"rendered":"Sketch Time: Alternate Zur the Enchanter (2005)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I&#8217;m busy with some stuff (including my wedding anniversary!), I&#8217;m going to fire some sketches your way.<\/p>\n<p>This time, it&#8217;s an alternate take on my Zur the Enchanter card from MTG: <em>Coldsnap.<\/em> The sketch cycle for Zur was one of the lengthier ones of my Magic career, probably only beaten by the crazy amount of drawings I did for the 8th edition version of the Lhurgoyf. <\/p>\n<p>The art description for Zur was pretty brief, and it was only through several cycles of sketches and emails that we nailed down just how crazy Zur needed to look&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/peteventers.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/28\/altzur\/zur\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/peteventers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Zur.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Zur The Enchanter\" width=\"223\" height=\"310\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peteventers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Zur.jpg 223w, https:\/\/peteventers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Zur-215x300.jpg 215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But when I started the process I imagined Zur as a more serious, even grim, figure pushed to the edge of his sanity and disdainful of those of &#8216;lesser power&#8217; who had usurped him&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/peteventers.com\/images\/Sketches\/Zur_alt.jpg\" alt=\"Zur: First Sketch\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, he&#8217;s one grumpy enchanter ready to ruin your day.<\/p>\n<p>So, for my next sketch, would you like something else from Magic, or something completely different?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First in a series of sketch posts, this one is an early take on Zur the Enchanter from Coldsnap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[21,19,20,117,18],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sketch","tag-21","tag-coldsnap","tag-magic-the-gathering","tag-sketch","tag-zur"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peteventers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peteventers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peteventers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peteventers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peteventers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peteventers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peteventers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peteventers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peteventers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}