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Category Archives: Halloween
Affinity Designer After Midnight
Here’s another Halloween Horror Head I created in Affinity Designer while I waited for my son’s early morning bus. I was trying to do something different, but I wound up with another vampire. This one is based on Lon Chaney’s … Continue reading
Five More Days Till Halloween
Posted in Halloween, News, Philadelphia, Photography, South Philly Safari
Tagged carving, Jack O'Lantern, pumpkins, South Philly
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I Was a Vector Frankenstein
This was the guy that started it all. I did him as an icon experiment in Adobe Illustrator back in 2006. I was trying to keep it as simple as possible and played with the blending modes of the various … Continue reading
Posted in Halloween, Illustration, Pixels Versus Pigment, Technique
Tagged 2006, Adobe Illustrator, Cartoon, cartoons, digital illustration, Frankenstein, Halloween, horror, humor, Joe Williams, monster, Shelley, vector, Willceau
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I Was a Vector Werewolf
Here’s another Halloween Head I created in Affinity Designer as I’ve spent my too early mornings waiting for my son’s school bus, and if I say so myself, I am pretty pleased with this. I really wanted to do a … Continue reading
Zombie in Affinity Designer
Here is yet another Halloween Horror Head I created in Affinity Designer. This guy is a zombie, but not the flesh-eating variety that first hit cinema screens back in 1968 and seem to have never left. I meant this guy … Continue reading
Posted in Halloween, Illustration, Technique
Tagged #AffinityDesigner, Cartoon, corpse, digital illustration, eyes, humor, Illustration, Joe Williams, Living Dead, monster, vector, zombie
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Mechanical Menace in Affinity Designer
Here’s another doodle similar to The Count which I cooked up over the course of a couple of early mornings using the vector art program extraordinaire Affinity Designer. I cobbled together the Mechanical Menace with a number of the program’s … Continue reading
Posted in Halloween, Illustration, Sketch, Technique
Tagged #AffinityDesigner, Affinity Designer, automaton, digital illustration, humor, Illustration, Joe Williams, monster, robot, vector, Willceau
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I COUNT on Affinity Designer
Here’s a little Halloween doodle that I cooked up in my favorite vector art program Affinity Designer. Being that my son’s school bus pickup time is just before dawn, I thought it appropriate to work on this icon of The … Continue reading
Posted in Halloween, Illustration, Technique
Tagged Affinity Designer, digital illustration, Dracula, humor, Illustration, Joe Williams, monster, USA, vampire, vector
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Halloween by Love
Dan Love that is. Dan shared these photos he shot of our boy’s Halloween costume. As they were being offloaded to my computer, I thought they would make a pretty nifty animation, and that’s what I did. You can get … Continue reading
Posted in Animated GIF, Halloween
Tagged animated gif, costume, Dan Love, DIY, Halloween, Halloween 2015, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, photography, science fiction
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Genesis of the Atomic Warrior Costume
For the past several years, Tina and I have been creating elaborate Halloween costumes with either a retro or vintage vending machine theme. It was usually based around a large cardboard box and had to have electric lights. He has … Continue reading
Posted in Halloween, Holiday, Technique
Tagged flaming sword, Halloween, Halloween 2015, lights, monster, science fiction, skull
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