{"id":2081,"date":"2009-10-14T07:00:27","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T11:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/?p=2081"},"modified":"2009-10-13T02:11:27","modified_gmt":"2009-10-13T06:11:27","slug":"batman-drawing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/14\/batman-drawing\/","title":{"rendered":"Batman Drawing I Did Twenty Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Below you&#8217;ll find a drawing of Batman I did back in 1988 that I recently unearthed.\u00a0 I drew it free hand, but based it upon a Brian Bolland panel in <em>Batman: The Killing Joke <\/em>(see further below for that original panel).\u00a0 My drawing measures 13 inches by 17 inches, whereas the original panel measures a mere 2 inches by 3 inches.\u00a0 I never finished the drawing completely, but got pretty far along.\u00a0 I&#8217;m guessing I did this while I was learning about pointillism in school.\u00a0 While I don&#8217;t claim to be an artist of any sort, I thought this came out pretty good.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Batman drawing from 1988 by the Irredeemable Shag\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/batman_sketchbook.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"515\" height=\"652\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Below is that original panel by Brian Bolland from <em>Batman: The Killing Joke<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Batman: The Killing Joke panel by Brian Bolland\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/batman_bolland.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"373\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Tell the world about ONCE UPON A GEEK:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a 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