{"id":145,"date":"2014-05-25T15:38:52","date_gmt":"2014-05-25T21:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coleman360.com\/toons\/?p=145"},"modified":"2025-03-12T17:25:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T17:25:35","slug":"iron-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coleman360.com\/portfolio\/iron-bowl\/","title":{"rendered":"Iron Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"629\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/coleman360.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Iron-bowl-II-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coleman360.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Iron-bowl-II-1.jpg 629w, https:\/\/coleman360.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Iron-bowl-II-1-236x300.jpg 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 629px) 100vw, 629px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The annual matchup between Auburn and Alabama was always preceded by a special section in the newspaper. This particular cover was a challenge posed by my publisher who claimed that I was relying on my computer too much. So I resolved to render this cover by hand and color it was a process called Fluorograph. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Normally, color separations involved opaque or screened masks on plates, but Fluorograph allowed the artist to paint in real colors and then convert them\u00a0to opaque with a special fluid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was in the middle of painting the image that a photographer friend inquired about the process, and I explained that after I was satisfied with the color I would simply spray on that liquid. He asked &#8220;what liquid?&#8221; Yes, it was empty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I waited until the publisher left, and I scanned the entire image into the computer where I colored it by mouse. Technically, it was cheating, but it still retained the hand-drawn feel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was the only time I ever withheld the truth from a publisher&#8230; that has even been documented.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual matchup between Auburn and Alabama was always preceded by a special section in the newspaper. This particular cover was a challenge posed by my publisher who claimed that I was relying on my computer too much. So I resolved to render this cover by hand and color it was a process called Fluorograph. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-illustration","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coleman360.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coleman360.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coleman360.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coleman360.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coleman360.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/coleman360.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257,"href":"https:\/\/coleman360.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions\/257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coleman360.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coleman360.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coleman360.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coleman360.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}