{"id":3301,"date":"2020-09-08T15:54:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T14:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/?p=3301"},"modified":"2025-01-10T13:13:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T12:13:28","slug":"more-news-from-colony-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/2020\/09\/more-news-from-colony-87\/","title":{"rendered":"More News From Colony 87"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>OK that was a long month of May! I&#8217;ve been meaning to get more of my artwork online I&#8217;ve just been a bit too busy to do it (I&#8217;ve loads more Crooked Dice Games&#8217; Colony 87 creations and many other images as well).<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/p><span class=\"mycenter\"><span class=\"image-share-wrap\"><span class=\"hidden-share\" style=\"width:24px;\"><a rel='nofollow' href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.willbeck.com%2Fartblog%2F2020%2F09%2Fmore-news-from-colony-87%2F&picture=http:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Sketchbook-Mar2018-Colony-87-Alien-Pets-ideas.jpg\" onclick=\"newMyWindow(this.href); return false;\"><img title='Share this image if you like it!' width='24' height='24' src='https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/cool-image-share\/img\/flat3d\/facebook.png' \/><\/a><a rel='nofollow' href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?text=More%20News%20From%20Colony%2087&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.willbeck.com%2Fartblog%2F2020%2F09%2Fmore-news-from-colony-87%2F&hashtags=alien%20pets%2Ccolony%2087%2Ccrooked%20dice%20games%2Cminiatures%20concepts%2Cscience%20fiction\" onclick=\"newMyWindow(this.href); 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return false;\"><img title='Share this image if you like it!' width='24' height='24' src='https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/cool-image-share\/img\/flat3d\/pinterest.png' \/><\/a><a rel='nofollow' href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.willbeck.com%2Fartblog%2F2020%2F09%2Fmore-news-from-colony-87%2F&title=More%20News%20From%20Colony%2087\" onclick=\"newMyWindow(this.href); return false;\"><img title='Share this image if you like it!' width='24' height='24' src='https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/cool-image-share\/img\/flat3d\/reddit.png' \/><\/a><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Sketchbook-Mar2018-Colony-87-Alien-Pets-ideas.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img  loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-196 cool-image-share\" title=\"Alien pet sketches\" src=\"http:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Sketchbook-Mar2018-Colony-87-Alien-Pets-ideas.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"950\" height=\"671\"><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a page of rough sketches of extraterrestrial animals that I drew before the full page here:<\/p>\n<\/p><span class=\"mycenter\"><span class=\"image-share-wrap\"><span class=\"hidden-share\" style=\"width:24px;\"><a rel='nofollow' href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.willbeck.com%2Fartblog%2F2020%2F09%2Fmore-news-from-colony-87%2F&picture=http:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Colony-87-Alien-Menagerie.jpg\" onclick=\"newMyWindow(this.href); 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return false;\"><img title='Share this image if you like it!' width='24' height='24' src='https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/cool-image-share\/img\/flat3d\/pinterest.png' \/><\/a><a rel='nofollow' href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.willbeck.com%2Fartblog%2F2020%2F09%2Fmore-news-from-colony-87%2F&title=More%20News%20From%20Colony%2087\" onclick=\"newMyWindow(this.href); return false;\"><img title='Share this image if you like it!' width='24' height='24' src='https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/cool-image-share\/img\/flat3d\/reddit.png' \/><\/a><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Colony-87-Alien-Menagerie.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img  loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-196 cool-image-share\" title=\"Colony 87 Alien Menagerie\" src=\"http:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Colony-87-Alien-Menagerie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"950\" height=\"671\"><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This Colony 87 concept page shows an alien menagerie that the Alien Pet Merchant could be selling to those that can afford them. The Eel-lion, Testudo-bird and Varkdog are influenced by creatures in images created by Moebius, the other creatures are my own inventions.<\/p> <p>Looking at it again I wasn&#8217;t sure about the Eel-lion, I think it should be thinner and slippery like an eel, I shall redraw this some time as I do like the other designs.<\/p>\n<a title=\"Colony 87 Alien Pets\" href=\"https:\/\/crooked-dice.co.uk\/products\/alien-pets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Crooked Dice Games &#8211; Colony 87 Alien Pets<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK that was a long month of May! I&#8217;ve been meaning to get more of my artwork online I&#8217;ve just been a bit too busy to do it (I&#8217;ve loads more Crooked Dice Games&#8217; Colony 87 creations and many other images as well). Here&#8217;s a page of rough sketches of extraterrestrial animals that I drew &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/2020\/09\/more-news-from-colony-87\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More News From Colony 87<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[223,12,4],"tags":[493,366,461,292,18],"class_list":["post-3301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-concept-art","category-science-fiction","category-sketchbook-pages","tag-alien-pets","tag-colony-87","tag-crooked-dice-games","tag-miniatures-concepts","tag-sf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3301"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3676,"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3301\/revisions\/3676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}