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Tag Archives: Cartoon
Doodle Tuesday
Doc Bruce Banner –belted by gamma rays! This is a doodle I did in work on a scratch pad made of cheap, thin paper that for some reason is a pleasure on which to scribble.
Posted in Doodle Tuesday, It Came From the Sketchbook
Tagged Cartoon, doodle, Hulk, scribble
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Doodle Tuesday
Doodle of the current fashion cliche infesting urban areas
Posted in Doodle Tuesday, It Came From the Sketchbook
Tagged Cartoon, doodle, hipster, Sketch, sketchbook
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Sign of the Times
Back in 1991, I got a freelance assignment illustrating an article on Obsessive Compulsive Disorder for a local paper. Everybody knows what OCD is now, but I was unfamiliar with it at the time. It seemed that new manias and … Continue reading
Posted in Blast from the Past, Illustration
Tagged Cartoon, freelance, Illustration, Obsessive-compulsive, OCD, pen and ink, technical pens
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Hell Toupee
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
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Mad About the iPad
I’m getting used to the fantastic art program for the iPad Pro called Procreate. It uses the Apple Pencil, and it has the most satisfying interface that I’ve used on a digital platform thus far. I’ve been doodling and playing … Continue reading
Posted in It Came From the Sketchbook, Pixels Versus Pigment
Tagged Cartoon, iPad, Joe Williams, mad scientist, monster, Procreate, sketchbook
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TV SNIDE
After finishing my last Halloween Head, I was looking for another project to work on. I thought I would continue with monsters, but a likely creature did not leap to mind. I kicked around a bunch of ideas trying to … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration, Technique
Tagged 1970s, Affinity Designer, Bonnie Franklin, Cartoon, funny, Illustration, Joe Williams, One Day at a Time, TV GUIDE, vector
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The Ghost
This is another in a Halloween themed series of illustrations I put together in the superlative vector art program known as Affinity Designer. See more of my vector illustrations HERE!
Posted in Halloween, Illustration, Pixels Versus Pigment
Tagged Affinity Designer, Cartoon, ghost, graveyard, Halloween, Halloween Head, haunted, Illustration, Joe Williams, monster, monster head, spirit, spook, vector
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