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Category Archives: It Came From the Sketchbook
Tuesday Doodle – Not Fast Enough
Today’s doodle is another one I did sitting on the couch while watching television. It was drawn in a 6 inch by 9 inch sketchbook manufactured in India for Ticonderoga and was sold at Target. It’s got a wire binding … Continue reading
Posted in Doodle Tuesday, It Came From the Sketchbook, Pixels Versus Pigment
Tagged analog, Atomic Warrior, Cartoon, comic, doodle, horror, Illustration, Joe Williams, scribble, Sketch, sketchbook, Willceau
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Doodles on the Couch
I’m back to doodling on the couch in an inexpensive but halfway decent sketchbook and watching my favorite streaming channel Tubi. Yes, Tubi is supported by advertising, but the commercials are a lot less obtrusive than the other streamers and … Continue reading
Posted in It Came From the Sketchbook, Weird World of the Roku, What's on TV?
Tagged Cartoon, cartoons, comics, fun, horror, It Came From The Sketchbook, Joe Williams, Monsters, Sketch
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Alien Knockoffs
Posted in Doodle Tuesday, It Came From the Sketchbook
Tagged Alien, creature, doodle, horror, monster, Sketch
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A Chilly Banana
I was looking around the old flat file cabinet in my studio when I came across this illustration that I barely remember doing. I’m not sure of exactly when I did it or what it was for. It was back before … Continue reading
Posted in Doodle Tuesday, Illustration, Pixels Versus Pigment
Tagged banana, Cartoon, cold, Illustration, Joe Williams, shivering, spot
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The Other Half
Back in 2017, I had what I thought was a pretty good idea for replicating the size and shape of my beloved Sketchbook from Heaven by cleaving a 9-inch by 12-inch drawing pad into two 9-inch by 6-inch pads. It … Continue reading
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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Loup Garou
Posted in It Came From the Sketchbook
Tagged creature, doodle, ink, monster, sketchbook, werewolf
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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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An Italian Sketchbook and Some Familiar Faces
I finished off a nice little sketchbook that Tony Visco picked up for me when he was in Florence a couple years ago.


