{"id":12448,"date":"2014-01-12T17:34:32","date_gmt":"2014-01-12T22:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/?p=12448"},"modified":"2014-01-12T17:34:32","modified_gmt":"2014-01-12T22:34:32","slug":"halofanforlifes-minimalist-halo-characters-14-the-didact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/?p=12448","title":{"rendered":"HaloFanForLife\u2019s Minimalist Halo Characters: #14 The Didact!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is it. The last of my Halo minimalist art pieces.<\/p>\n<p>Who better to end this series than the big baddie of Halo 4 himself, the Didact!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Minimalist-Didact-v2_sm.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12447\" alt=\"Minimalist Didact v2_sm\" src=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Minimalist-Didact-v2_sm.png\" width=\"167\" height=\"252\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is a ton of detail in this one, even for a minimalist art piece. I used 8 colors for him. I could have dropped it to 7, but felt the dark red near his shoulders (which is hard to see in the small graphic above) was needed.<\/p>\n<p>I was going to go with a dark background for this to help blend the Didact in However, when I did, it just didn&#8217;t seem right. SO I kept it lighter and allowed the Didact to pop off the background more.<\/p>\n<p>So comes an end to my Halo minimalist art project. There were more I wanted to do, but didn&#8217;t want to drag this out too long. I have other characters in mind and would consider doing a second series of these. However, I&#8217;d like to know if YOU folks want to see more of them. Please let me know by either replying below or sending me an e-mail to sal@halofanforlife.com. Let me know which characters you&#8217;d like to see done in this style.<\/p>\n<p>Alright, so I said these would be made available in a larger format after these all were revealed. I can&#8217;t sell these as posters as I had wanted to as that breaks the usage rule per Microsoft. (Not that I had expected to make any significant money from these anyway, and all the money made would have gone right back into the blog anyway) So I&#8217;m at a conundrum as to how to make these available to you folks, without my artwork being ripped off. I&#8217;ve asked Jessica Shea, aka BS Angel, if she would be willing to show these as an article on Halo Waypoint. I&#8217;m waiting to hear back from her on that. If yes, then I&#8217;ll give her my high resolution files so she can post them. If not, then I&#8217;m going to need suggestions.<\/p>\n<p>A reader had asked about t-shirts. Again, because I&#8217;m not permitted to make money from these, I can&#8217;t do that either. While I could easily watermark these, that would detract from the piece itself. To boot, I&#8217;d have to place the watermark over part of the piece so it couldn&#8217;t be as easily replicated. Again, I think it would be tacky to do so for art pieces.<\/p>\n<p>So again, I&#8217;m open to suggestions here.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to all of you who have been following this project, especially those who commented here. I enjoyed making these. If you look back over the whole series, I only used between 5 to 8 colors for each piece. Not to bad when trying to keep to a minimum.<\/p>\n<p><em>I recreated these in Adobe Illustrator using some fun techniques and refining some of the shapes. I tried to use as few colors as possible yet show enough detail so that each character was instantly recognizable.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\"><strong>-Sal<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is it. The last of my Halo minimalist art pieces. Who better to end this series than the big baddie of Halo 4 himself, the Didact! There is a ton of detail in this one, even for a minimalist &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/?p=12448\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[31,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fan-art-and-other-non-written-media","category-general-blog-info"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12448"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12451,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12448\/revisions\/12451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}