Category Archives: Illustration

Friday Five – Number One Hundred Seventy Five

Posted on April 26, 2024 by Tina Garceau

One hundred seventy fifth in a continued series creating a collage using five elements.

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Tuesday Digital Doodle • Comin’ At YA!

Posted on April 2, 2024 by Joe

Today’s digital doodle was a happy accident I made while playing with Affinity Designer’s step-and-repeat feature. I was playing around with a logo I worked up a while back for J.L. Curtis’s series of science fiction books and seeing how … Continue reading →

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Tuesday Digital Doodle • Automaton Powers On

Posted on March 19, 2024 by Joe

This is another vector doodle I did in Affinity Designer. In preparation for the occasional science fiction book cover I illustrate, I will play with metallic tones and mechanical shapes. I am figuring out how I may approach that starship … Continue reading →

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Friday Five – Number One Hundred Seventy Three

Posted on March 15, 2024 by Tina Garceau

One hundred seventy third in a continued series creating a collage using five elements.

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Available for Birthdays and Bar Mitzvahs

Posted on March 13, 2024 by Joe

This is a variation of the frightening clown I produced in Affinity Designer back in 2019. I was on a streak back then making a number of vector Halloween heads in Serif’s superlative software, and my basement dwelling Bozo was … Continue reading →

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Tuesday Digital Doodle • Gritty City

Posted on March 12, 2024 by Joe

Back in the ’80s, there were a number of guys in art school playing with grayscale textures created by flicking a toothbrush loaded with ink onto a piece of bristol or illustration board. They would carefully cut frisket masks like … Continue reading →

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Tuesday Digital Doodle • Type of the Living Dead

Posted on March 5, 2024 by Joe

Affinity recently updated their whole suite of desktop publishing applications to version 2.4 so I’ve been trying to catch up with some of the new features of these programs. I’ve been mostly playing with Affinity Designer which is their vector … Continue reading →

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