{"id":12428,"date":"2011-02-03T10:42:48","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T18:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/AMPTOONS.COM\/blog\/?p=12428"},"modified":"2011-02-03T18:02:55","modified_gmt":"2011-02-04T02:02:55","slug":"my-drawings-of-portland-operas-turandot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=12428","title":{"rendered":"My Drawings of Portland Opera&#8217;s Turandot (Updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland Opera likes to bring in local cartoonists to see their dress rehearsals; in return, the cartoonists draw the opera they&#8217;ve seen. I participated back in November, drawing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hereville.com\/2010\/11\/04\/portland-operas-hansel-and-gretel\/\">Hansel and Gretel<\/a>.  And this Monday, I saw Turandot. Here are my Turandot drawings (click on the drawings to see them bigger):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hereville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/turandot-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hereville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/turandot-1-791x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"turandot-1\" width=\"538\" height=\"696\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-949\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here, we see our hero, whose name is something of a mystery. He spent a lot of the opera hugging himself in his big leather trenchcoat.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hereville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/turandot2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hereville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/turandot2-1024x423.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"turandot2\" width=\"538\" height=\"222\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-950\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here, the hero struggles to ring a gong, while three colorfully-dressed city bureaucrats try to talk him out of it.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Portland Opera for the chance to do this (and for the free food!).<\/p>\n<p>Mike Russell has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webcomicsnation.com\/culturepulp\/culturepulp\/series.php?view=archive&#038;chapter=47764\">a complete summary of Turandot&#8217;s plot in cartoon form<\/a>! (My favorite line: &#8220;Don&#8217;t get up or anything!&#8221;). And Matt Grigsby has <a href=\"http:\/\/grigsbyart.blogspot.com\/2011\/02\/massive-update.html\">several drawings from the production<\/a>. This is just the start of the Turandot drawings &#8212; there were a bunch of us there. If you&#8217;re interested in seeing more, watch the <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/search?q=%23pdxoperacomics\">#pdxoperacomics tag on twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: And here&#8217;s a third drawing:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/deutsch-turandot3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/deutsch-turandot3_smaller.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"deutsch-turandot3_smaller\" width=\"500\" height=\"647\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/deutsch-turandot3_smaller.png 500w, https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/deutsch-turandot3_smaller-231x300.png 231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland Opera likes to bring in local cartoonists to see their dress rehearsals; in return, the cartoonists draw the opera they&#8217;ve seen. I participated back in November, drawing Hansel and Gretel. And this Monday, I saw Turandot. 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