{"id":7733,"date":"2013-08-03T18:30:49","date_gmt":"2013-08-04T01:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensbargains.net\/thecheckout\/?p=7733"},"modified":"2013-08-03T18:27:59","modified_gmt":"2013-08-04T01:27:59","slug":"eight-fantastic-character-sketches-using-legos-markers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/awesomeness\/eight-fantastic-character-sketches-using-legos-markers\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight Fantastic Character Sketches Using LEGOs, Markers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Force is strong in this young LEGO master. Developed by\u00a0illustrator and photographer Chris McVeigh, this collection of art combines famous\u00a0pop culture characters with LEGOs. Using LEGO Digital Designer<\/a>,\u00a0McVeigh creates a LEGO\u00a0brick canvas of 12 x 16 inches and uses markers to color in portions of the canvas.<\/p>\n

Describing the process in an interview<\/a> with Mashable, McVeigh said “Creating artwork with LEGOs is much more restrictive than with markers, and it’s always a challenge to find just the right combination of plates to represent a specific character.\u00a0Adding to the complexity is that not all parts are available in all colors, and worse yet, I may not have all the parts on hand<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

Characters depicted within his series so far include the Dark Knight, Bender from Futurama<\/em>, a Stormstrooper, Boba Fett, R2-D2, Jake from Adventure Time<\/em>, Optimus Prime and a\u00a0Jaeger from Pacific Rim<\/em>. In addition to coloring in the characters with markers,\u00a0McVeigh also adds additional LEGO pieces for accessories to complete the portrait.<\/p>\n

You will be able to find future additions to the collection on his Flickr account here<\/a>. But first, be sure to check out his first eight LEGO creations below:<\/p>\n

\"LEGO<\/a><\/p>\n

\"LEGO<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Jake<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Boba<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Optimus<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Pacific<\/a><\/p>\n

\"R2-D2<\/a><\/p>\n

\"A<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Force is strong in this young LEGO master. Developed by\u00a0illustrator and photographer Chris McVeigh, this collection of art combines famous\u00a0pop culture characters with LEGOs. Using LEGO Digital Designer,\u00a0McVeigh creates a LEGO\u00a0brick canvas of 12 x 16 inches and uses markers to color in portions of the canvas. Describing the process in an interview with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[223,503,197,37,653],"class_list":["post-7733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awesomeness","tag-batman","tag-futurama","tag-lego","tag-star-wars","tag-transformers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7733"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7735,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7733\/revisions\/7735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}