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Category Archives: Sketch
A Teenage Werewolf in a Juvenile Sketchbook
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
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The Atomic Warrior – The Vector Version
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
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Swing and a Miss
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
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Exhuming Dead & Buried while Drawing
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
Mechanical Menace in Affinity Designer
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
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Holiday Fatigue
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.
Posted in Blast from the Past, Drawer Cards, Holiday, Illustration, It Came From the Sketchbook, Sketch
Tagged 1980s, analog, Cartoon, Christmas, drawing, Easter, humor, ink, Joe Williams, Sketch, USA, Valentine's Day
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The Creep
Fiddling around a bit with a quick little sketch which I brought into Affinity Photo.
Posted in Illustration, It Came From the Sketchbook, Sketch, Technique
Tagged Affinity Photo, comic, comics, creep, digital illustration, Illustration, Joe Williams, monster, Sketch, sketchbook, Willceau
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