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Category Archives: Illustration
Heaven on $5 a day?
Ever since my wife picked up a cheap, wire-bound, scratch pad from a Target store for me as a Christmas gift, I now take cheap sketchbooks seriously. Throughout the years I may have bought every name brand of artist drawing … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration, It Came From the Sketchbook, Sketch
Tagged cheap, discount, sketchbook
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Friday Five – Number One Hundred Seven
One hundred seventh in a continued series creating a collage using five elements.
Posted in Collage, Friday Five, Illustration
Tagged collage, Friday Five, vintage photos
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Joe College 1970
Posted in Illustration
Tagged 1970, Affinity Designer, digital illustration, Hippie, Illustration, Joe Williams, vector
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Friday Five – Number One Hundred Three
One hundred third in a continued series creating a collage using five elements.
Posted in Collage, Friday Five, Illustration, Photography
Tagged collage, digital collage, Friday Five, squirrels, vintage, Vintage wallpaper
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Montgomery Ward Catalog 1963
Every collage artist’s dream – best Christmas gift ever!
Posted in Blast from the Past, Collage, Illustration
Tagged collage, Montgomery Ward, vintage catalog
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Countess Dracula
Erzsébet Báthory (1560-1614) was a real life Hungarian noblewoman and purported serial killer who may have engaged in vampiric activity. Her victims were female servants and minor noblewomen who had come to her for training and education. I’m not sure … Continue reading
Posted in Doodle Tuesday, Halloween, Illustration
Tagged Affinity Designer, blood, Cartoon, digital illustration, Dracula, femme fatale, Halloween, Halloween Head, Illustration, Joe Williams, monster, vamp, vampire, vector
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Invasion of the Saucer Men
My latest Halloween Head is based on the alien invaders from the drive-in, schlock classic Invasion of the Saucer Men released in 1957. I struggled with this one a bit because I watched the movie and kept referring back to … Continue reading
Posted in Halloween, Illustration
Tagged #digitalart, Affinity Designer, Alien, art, creature, digital art, Illustration, Invasion of the Saucer Men, Joe Williams, monster, vector
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Mister HYDE
I was trying to come up with another idea for a Halloween Head when I realized I had never done Dr Jekyll’s monstrous alter-ego Mr Hyde. It was high time I gave half of this split personality my full attention!
RIMWORLD THE RIFT is Available NOW
Both the print and electronic version of J.L. Curtis’ science fiction opus Rimworld: The Rift are available NOW! Head over to Amazon to purchase your copy TODAY! You can’t judge a book by the cover, but I DID THE COVER! … Continue reading
Posted in Book Design, Illustration
Tagged Affinity Designer, Affinity Publisher, book, design, Illustration, JL Curtis, Joe Williams, paperback, Rift, Rimworld, science fiction, space, spaceship
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It seemed like a good idea at the time…
Behold…the FUTURE! …or at least it was about 20 years ago.
Posted in Blast from the Past, Computers, Curious Clutter, Illustration
Tagged CD, CD-R, comic, disk, Joe Williams, mini disk, promo, promotional
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Sneak Peek
Coming SOON from J.L. Curtis — RIMWORLD: THE RIFT! It will be available in both a print and electronic version over on Amazon. Read about it HERE! Oh…and I did the cover.
Posted in Book Design, Illustration, News
Tagged Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo, J.L. Curtis
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Goodbye Half a Sketchbook
A while back, I had the bold notion of trying to replicate my beloved Sketchbook from Heaven by cleaving a larger pad of paper in two. It was a great idea, and if it worked, I would have bought several … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration, It Came From the Sketchbook
Tagged Atomic Warrior, doodle, drawing, ink, It Came From The Sketchbook, Joe Williams, landscape, mixed media, pencil, Sketch, sketchbook, small
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Sign of the Times
Back in 1991, I got a freelance assignment illustrating an article on Obsessive Compulsive Disorder for a local paper. Everybody knows what OCD is now, but I was unfamiliar with it at the time. It seemed that new manias and … Continue reading
Posted in Blast from the Past, Illustration
Tagged Cartoon, freelance, Illustration, Obsessive-compulsive, OCD, pen and ink, technical pens
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