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Tag Archives: Affinity Designer
Tuesday Digital Doodle • Type Treatments
I was searching around a few older hard drives when I found this digital doodle I did in Affinity Designer. In the same way that I scribble away in sketchbooks, I will play around with vector shapes, colors and textures … Continue reading
Sci Fi Textures
When the blank page or screen is staring at me waiting for me to fill it with something illustrative and I don’t really have a solid idea, I doodle digital science fiction textures. I play around with colors and shapes … Continue reading
It’s Lent, you know!
Tina and I exchange cards we make ourselves rather than go on a mad dash for that elusive perfect gift or trying to get reservations on the worst restaurant night of the year. We call them Drawer Cards. Earlier Tina … Continue reading
Posted in Drawer Cards, Holiday, Illustration, Vector Illustration
Tagged Affinity Designer, Cartoon, cartoons, Cupid, digital illustration, Drawer Card, humor, Illustration, Joe Williams, Lent, USA, Valentine
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School Days – The Swinging Algebra Teacher
School days, school days, dear old golden rule days, Readin’ and ‘ritin’ and ‘rithmetic… Yeah, right. We’ve arrived at ‘rithmetic with The Swinging Algebra Teacher.
Posted in Illustration, Vector Illustration
Tagged 1970s, Affinity Designer, algebra, Cartoon, cartoons, club, dance, digital illustration, disco, humor, Illustration, Joe Williams, New Jersey, Philadelphia, USA, vector art, vetor
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The Green Ghoul
Recently I’ve been traipsing down memory lane revisiting the people and impressions I had of grade school and junior high in the form of cartoons. Today I offer some images that I probably doodled in the margins of notebooks when … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration, Vector Illustration
Tagged Affinity Designer, Cartoon, comics, digital illustration, horror, Illustration, Joe Williams, USA, vector, vector art
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School Days – The Cool Substitute Teacher
The Cool Substitute Teacher circa 1974 is an illustration that fell together as I was playing with shapes in the superlative vector art program Affinity Designer. I was hoping to come up with another monster for my collection of Halloween … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration, News, Vector Illustration
Tagged 1970s, 1974, Affinity Designer, Cartoon, digital illustration, humor, Illustration, Joe Williams, school, school days, substitute, USA, vector
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Building a Robot
…with Affinity Designer. I started to work on this mechanical man to shake the rust from my vector graphic cartooning skills. Of late, I have been spending more time with pencils and paper than I have been with the Affinity … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration
Tagged Affinity, Affinity Designer, desktop, desktop publishing, graphics, Illustration, Joe Williams, robot, vector
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It’s Pixels Versus Pigments, Again
The late, great Dan Love was a good friend and a technological guru who pushed me kicking and screaming into new computers and gadgets I never realized I needed until I started to use them. He was passionate about computers … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration, Pixels Versus Pigment, Technique
Tagged Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo, analog, Apple, Bristol Board, brush, cartoon hippie, Dan Love, digital illustration, Hippie, Illustration, ink, iPad, Joe Williams, Mac, pen, Procreate, sketchbook, USA, Willceau
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Joe College 1970
Posted in Illustration
Tagged 1970, Affinity Designer, digital illustration, Hippie, Illustration, Joe Williams, vector
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