{"id":416,"date":"2016-02-24T23:41:45","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T04:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/?p=416"},"modified":"2018-06-01T17:34:06","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T21:34:06","slug":"bulbasaur-mandala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/?p=416","title":{"rendered":"Bulbasaur mandala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-419 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/bulbasaur-mandala-2pt.png\" alt=\"bulbasaur-mandala-2pt\" width=\"612\" height=\"792\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/bulbasaur-mandala-2pt.png 612w, http:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/bulbasaur-mandala-2pt-116x150.png 116w, http:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/bulbasaur-mandala-2pt-232x300.png 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-420 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/bulbasaur-stroke-color.png\" alt=\"bulbasaur-stroke-color\" width=\"650\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/bulbasaur-stroke-color.png 650w, http:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/bulbasaur-stroke-color-150x138.png 150w, http:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/bulbasaur-stroke-color-300x277.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-421 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/bulbasaur-no-stroke-color.png\" alt=\"bulbasaur-no-stroke-color\" width=\"650\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/bulbasaur-no-stroke-color.png 650w, http:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/bulbasaur-no-stroke-color-150x138.png 150w, http:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/bulbasaur-no-stroke-color-300x277.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-417 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/bulbasaur-mandala.png\" alt=\"bulbasaur-mandala\" width=\"612\" height=\"792\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/bulbasaur-mandala.png 612w, http:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/bulbasaur-mandala-116x150.png 116w, http:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/bulbasaur-mandala-232x300.png 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve really been enjoying this resurgence of mandalas. \u00a0Found an awesome Illustrator tutorial so I decided to take a whack at it and put my own spin on it. \u00a0I&#8217;m a freakin&#8217; nerd and I still love Pokemon. \u00a0When I was growing up, no one had love for poor Bulbasaur. \u00a0I mean how do you compete with a fire-breathing dragon or a turtle with water cannons shooting out of its back? \u00a0I&#8217;ve just always liked Bulbasaur and its evolutions so I wanted to pay homage.<\/p>\n<p>A special shout-out to Spoon Graphics for the great tutorial. \u00a0Checkout his mandala tutorial and others at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.spoongraphics.co.uk\/tutorials\/how-to-create-complex-mandala-patterns-in-illustrator\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/blog.spoongraphics.co.uk\/tutorials\/how-to-create-complex-mandala-patterns-in-illustrator<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve really been enjoying this resurgence of mandalas. \u00a0Found an awesome Illustrator tutorial so I decided to take a whack at it and put my own spin on it. \u00a0I&#8217;m a freakin&#8217; nerd and I still love Pokemon. \u00a0When I was growing up, no one had love for poor Bulbasaur. \u00a0I mean how do you&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11],"tags":[88,317,328,320,324,316,326,318,321,322,327,319,151,128,325,323],"class_list":["post-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-digital","category-random","tag-art","tag-bulbasaur","tag-circle","tag-digital","tag-evolution","tag-game-freak","tag-gen-1","tag-grass","tag-illustrator","tag-ivysaur","tag-kanto","tag-mandala","tag-nintendo","tag-pokemon","tag-starters","tag-venusaur","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":733,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions\/733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}