Category Archives: Technique

You’ll Never Get to Heaven If You Break My Heart

Posted on March 2, 2017 by Joe_Williams

After crowing about my new, favorite sketchbook recently, I decided to look for more of the same since I was tearing through the current one at a rapid clip. I looked at the websites of online as well as brick-and-mortar … Continue reading →

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Another Spent Sketchbook and Something Learned

Posted on January 26, 2017 by Joe_Williams

This was one of those Strathmore 400 Series Sketchbooks with the wire binding that I prefer. It laid flat; was easy to draw in and was a pleasure to sketch in. It measures 5.5 inches by 8.5 inches making it … Continue reading →

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Creature from the Affinity Designer Lagoon

Posted on November 10, 2016 by Joe_Williams

Halloween 2016 may be gone, but it seems I have some Monster Heads left in me. I made this finned fellow in the vector art program extraordinaire Affinity Designer. This wasn’t my first attempt at a variation of one of … Continue reading →

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Affinity Designer After Midnight

Posted on October 28, 2016 by Joe_Williams

Here’s another Halloween Horror Head I created in Affinity Designer while I waited for my son’s early morning bus. I was trying to do something different, but I wound up with another vampire. This one is based on Lon Chaney’s … Continue reading →

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I Was a Vector Frankenstein

Posted on October 23, 2016 by Joe_Williams

This was the guy that started it all. I did him as an icon experiment in Adobe Illustrator back in 2006. I was trying to keep it as simple as possible and played with the blending modes of the various … Continue reading →

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I Was a Vector Werewolf

Posted on October 22, 2016 by Joe_Williams

Here’s another Halloween Head I created in Affinity Designer as I’ve spent my too early mornings waiting for my son’s school bus, and if I say so myself, I am pretty pleased with this. I really wanted to do a … Continue reading →

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Zombie in Affinity Designer

Posted on October 20, 2016 by Joe_Williams

Here is yet another Halloween Horror Head I created in Affinity Designer. This guy is a zombie, but not the flesh-eating variety that first hit cinema screens back in 1968 and seem to have never left. I meant this guy … Continue reading →

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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 →

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Urban Texture

Posted on October 16, 2016 by Joe_Williams

Playing with a run-of-the-mill snapshot in Affinity Photo.

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