{"id":39126,"date":"2025-08-25T08:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T12:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=39126"},"modified":"2025-06-15T07:18:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T11:18:02","slug":"rocky-at-50-by-john-beatty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=39126","title":{"rendered":"Rocky at 50 by John Beatty!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z082525rockyat50_beatty.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"311\" height=\"571\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I was diggin&#8217; through the Zablo vault and came across this sketch of Sly Stalloneas Rocky at 50 that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnbeattyart.com\/shop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Beatty<\/a> gifted me waaay back in 1998.\u00a0 John was just messing around with no reference. I love the looseness of the lower part of this sketch.\u00a0 Contrast that with the upper piece that John tightened up.\u00a0 It&#8217;s cool to see the foundation and thought process as an artist as he\/she moves through a piece.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Who knew that eight years later Sly would make Rocky Balboa?\u00a0 Maybe Beatty did!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was diggin&#8217; through the Zablo vault and came across this sketch of Sly Stalloneas Rocky at 50 that John<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[58,17,56,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-celebs","category-comics","category-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39127,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39126\/revisions\/39127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}