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Category Archives: Illustration
School Days – The Cool Substitute Teacher
The Cool Substitute Teacher circa 1974 is an illustration that fell together as I was playing with shapes in the superlative vector art program Affinity Designer. I was hoping to come up with another monster for my collection of Halloween … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration, News, Vector Illustration
Tagged 1970s, 1974, Affinity Designer, Cartoon, digital illustration, humor, Illustration, Joe Williams, school, school days, substitute, USA, vector
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Building a Robot
…with Affinity Designer. I started to work on this mechanical man to shake the rust from my vector graphic cartooning skills. Of late, I have been spending more time with pencils and paper than I have been with the Affinity … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration
Tagged Affinity, Affinity Designer, desktop, desktop publishing, graphics, Illustration, Joe Williams, robot, vector
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Happy Birthday Joe!!!
For Joe’s card this year, I chose an interpretation of one of my childhood games – Mystery Date. If you’ve ever played it, you know that the dream date is wearing a white tuxedo and the dud is clad in … Continue reading
Posted in Collage, Illustration, News
Tagged collage, Joe's birthday, Milton Bradley games, Mystery Date, vintage
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Friday Five – Number One Hundred Sixty Six
One hundred sixty sixth in a continued series creating a collage using five elements.
Posted in Collage, Friday Five, Illustration, News, photo manipulation
Tagged bats, collage, Friday Five, Halloween, vintage photos
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Cosmic Maaaaaannnnn Sticks Around for Another Birthday
As I have written before, it’s Tina’s and my tradition to exchange birthday, anniversary and holiday cards we have illustrated ourselves. It’s more personal and making your own cards is a lot cheaper than a Hallmark card from one of … Continue reading
Posted in Drawer Cards, Illustration
Tagged analog, birthday, Cartoon, cartoons, Cosmic Maaaaaannnnn, digital illustration, Drawer Card, Drawer Cards, Happy Birthday, Happy birthday Tina, Hippie, Joe Williams, outer space, stars, Tina, USA
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There’s No Escape from a DEADLINE!
Back in the late 1990s I was exploring the illustrative possibilities of my newly purchased Power Mac 7300. I put a lot of time and effort chasing down what meager information I could via a dial-up modem; picking the brains … Continue reading
Posted in Blast from the Past, Illustration
Tagged 1990s, Cartoon, cartoons, CO2 Comics, comic, comics, deadline, digital color, digital illustration, humor, Illustration, Joe Williams, mini-comic, Power Mac 7300, promotion, promotional, salesman, service bureau, USA
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Friday Five – Number One Hundred Sixty Three
One hundred sixty third in a continued series creating a collage using five elements.
Posted in Collage, Friday Five, Illustration, photo manipulation
Tagged collage, Friday Five, skulls, vintage photos
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