Category Archives: Sketch

Heaven on $5 a day?

Posted on May 17, 2022 by Joe

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 | 2 Comments

Sofa Sketches and an Obscure Remake

Posted on July 21, 2021 by Joe

I’ve been sitting on the sofa with a sketchbook in my lap trying out some of my new art materials and playing around with a few I forgot I had. I should be up at my desk in my studio, … Continue reading →

Posted in It Came From the Sketchbook, Sketch, Stuff Joe Likes, Weird World of the Roku, What's on TV? | Tagged 1955, doodles, figure, Frankenstein, George Sanders, It Came From The Sketchbook, jungle, Laura, monster, mystery, Roku, running, sketchbook, sofa, TV | 2 Comments

The Devil Smoked Kools

Posted on January 26, 2021 by Joe

A drawing I recently found in a crumbling folder filled with old grade school homework. I have no idea what the context was or why I drew it. I was probably 7 or 8 years old at the time.

Posted in Doodle Tuesday, It Came From the Sketchbook, Sketch | Tagged 1970s, Cartoon, cigarette, devil, doodle | Leave a comment

OH BOY!

Posted on January 10, 2021 by Joe

A cartoon I did back when I was around 7 or 8 years old. It was probably drawn while I was splayed out on the floor in front of the television watching Wee Willie Webber. I found it in a … Continue reading →

Posted in Blast from the Past, It Came From the Sketchbook, Sketch | Tagged 1970s, Cartoon, doodle, scribble | 2 Comments

Tuesday Doodle

Posted on September 1, 2020 by Joe

Posted in Doodle Tuesday, It Came From the Sketchbook, Sketch | Tagged doodle, Monkey and Bird, pencil, Sketch, sketchbook | 2 Comments

Hell Toupee

Posted on December 12, 2019 by Joe

I can’t resist a pun. Another sketchbook sketch that I photographed, imported into Procreate on my iPad and had some fun with. I exported it from Procreate and brought it into Affinity Designer in order to do the lettering. I … Continue reading →

Posted in Illustration, It Came From the Sketchbook, Pixels Versus Pigment, Sketch | Tagged bald, Cartoon, digital art, funny, horror, Illustration, iPad, Joe Williams, Procreate | 2 Comments

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 | 2 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.

Posted in Looking South, Philadelphia, Photography, Sketch | Tagged Bardascino Park, South Philly | Leave a comment

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

Posted in Philadelphia, Sketch | Tagged North 5th Street | Leave a comment

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.