{"id":408,"date":"2010-12-31T12:53:41","date_gmt":"2010-12-31T19:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smouldendesign.com\/blog\/?p=408"},"modified":"2010-12-31T12:53:41","modified_gmt":"2010-12-31T19:53:41","slug":"rangers-inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/rangers-inspiration\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranger’s Inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you remember when I talked about a super hero I made up that was inspired from the Power Rangers<\/a>? For some reason this morning I felt like drawing some super heroes, which of late, is a good thing. I haven’t been all that inspired to do art so when I actually felt like it, I jumped on the chance. I took this opportunity to draw that Power Ranger-inspired hero, Goldenrod.<\/p>\n

As I started remembering what he looked like, I laughed at how similar he looked to the White Ranger. Its kind of sad how little original content came from Goldenrod. His helmet originated from the Alien Rangers<\/a>, his vest from the White Ranger<\/a>, his story line from the Masked Rider<\/a>, and his best friend from Iron Man’s War Machine<\/a>. I may loved to draw but I definitely wasn’t original with my stories. If anything, I was only good at splicing different parts of other stories.<\/p>\n

In a way, that’s all we do though, right? If you read a blog entry<\/a> from Jessica Hische, you’ll read about how so much of what designers do is take all of the things around us and then throw them together into a new design. What she believes is that when you have absorbed enough\u00a0inspiration\u00a0from the rest of the world, the creations you’ll make will be so mutated that they’ll be totally original.<\/p>\n

It makes sense. Doesn’t it? It would then make sense that Goldenrod was so much of a copy. I had only experienced Ninja Turtles, Power Rangers, and the Masked Rider. I hadn’t learned about Spider-man, Thor, the Blue Beetle, Green Lantern, Dr. Manhattan, and more. So in theory, if I made a new super hero, he’ll be such a blend of all of these characters, that he really wouldn’t be any of them. He would be his own character.<\/p>\n

When I told a possible employer about Jessica Hische’s theory, she thought that was a bunch of bull. She proposed the point that nothing truly original could ever arise from a bunch of other things. Let’s take, I don’t know, Picasso. Nothing had been done like his Cubist work before. He was inspired by African art but I could easily understand if someone said that Cubist work is not mutated from anything.<\/p>\n

I totally understand both points of view. I don’t propose that either are more correct. Maybe both are possible. Maybe one can create something totally original from combining a lot of other things and someone can create something from scratch. Let’s hope for both.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, I hope you enjoy Goldenrod, if for no other reason, because he has such a sick name.<\/p>\n

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P.S. Happy New Year’s Eve and happy first birthday to my blog, Design of the Day<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Luckily, after exactly a year after creating this blog, I’m still working on it (even though not as religiously as I would have hoped). Today’s design was inspired of a need to draw when I got up this morning. Enjoy. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[155,156,28],"class_list":["post-408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illustration","tag-inspiration","tag-motivation","tag-super-hero"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":410,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions\/410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}