Category Archives: Sketch

A Teenage Werewolf in a Juvenile Sketchbook

Posted on November 9, 2018 by Joe_Williams

A couple of doodles in the cheap sketchbook. The paper bleeds like crazy with ink and does not work to well with the water soluble pencils, but is real happy with my red leads and Blackwing 602 pencil.

Posted in It Came From the Sketchbook, Sketch | Tagged horror, Joe Williams, Lovecraft, monster, Sketch, sketchbook, USA, werewolf | 1 Comment

The Atomic Warrior – The Vector Version

Posted on May 17, 2018 by Joe_Williams

Here is a version of my Atomic Warrior character that I produced in Affinity Designer. I had a notion of what if George Lucas was never able to get the money he wanted to shoot Star Wars and instead put … Continue reading →

Posted in Illustration, Sketch, Technique | Tagged #AffinityDesigner, Affinity Designer, Atomic Warrior, Cartoon, cartoons, creature, digital illustration, Illustration, Joe Williams, monster, resolution independent, robot, skull, USA, vector, Willceau | 3 Comments

Looking South – Sketching in the Park

Posted on May 18, 2017 by Tina

I turned the corner and was surprised to see artists making representational art rather than what I usually see – coffee drinkers fiddling with a smart phone.

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Swing and a Miss

Posted on April 15, 2017 by Joe_Williams

Here is another doodle with Derwent Dark Wash pencils. This one was done in a Canson XL Mix Media pad which I will be using regularly just as soon as the Sketchbook from Heaven is exhausted which I’m sad to … Continue reading →

Posted in It Came From the Sketchbook, Sketch | Tagged analog, Atomic Warrior, black and white, Cartoon, cartoons, comic, comic book, comics, handmade, Illustration, Joe Williams, Pink Zeppelin, Sketch, sketchbook, USA, Willceau | 2 Comments

Exhuming Dead & Buried while Drawing

Posted on April 7, 2017 by Joe_Williams

I returned to my Roku’s Amazon Video channel in order to bask in trash that I can halfway ignore while sketching. The great thing about Amazon’s Prime besides the expedited shipping is the addition of Prime video which is promoted … Continue reading →

Posted in It Came From the Sketchbook, Sketch, Weird World of the Roku | Tagged analog, Atomic Warrior, black and white, Cartoon, cartoons, comic, comic book, comics, Illustration, Joe Williams, monster, Sketch, sketchbook | Leave a comment

Mechanical Menace in Affinity Designer

Posted on October 18, 2016 by Joe_Williams

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 | Leave a comment

St. Andrew’s Russian Orthodox Church

Posted on June 29, 2016 by Tina

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Holiday Fatigue

Posted on March 26, 2016 by Joe_Williams

Somewhere at the end of the ’80s I started dating a girl just after the holidays. I sketched out this little cartoon combining Christmas, Valentine’s Day and Easter for her as a gag greeting card.