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Tag Archives: horror
Tuesday Doodle • Stubborn Strathmore Sketchbook
I finally killed off a small Strathmore sketchbook that was lying around the house. It was picked up years ago while it was most likely on sale. The price was probably too good to resist. I honestly don’t remember. It … Continue reading
Posted in Doodle Tuesday, It Came From the Sketchbook
Tagged horror, humor, Joe Williams, Sketch, sketchbook, Strathmore, USA
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Available for Birthdays and Bar Mitzvahs
This is a variation of the frightening clown I produced in Affinity Designer back in 2019. I was on a streak back then making a number of vector Halloween heads in Serif’s superlative software, and my basement dwelling Bozo was … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration, Vector Illustration
Tagged clown, creep, digital illustration, horror, humor, Illustration, Joe Williams, scary, USA, vector
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Tuesday Digital Doodle • Type of the Living Dead
Affinity recently updated their whole suite of desktop publishing applications to version 2.4 so I’ve been trying to catch up with some of the new features of these programs. I’ve been mostly playing with Affinity Designer which is their vector … Continue reading
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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Making a Scarecrow for Halloween
In the past, Tina and I have built original Halloween costumes for our son that were usually in a lighter, more whimsical vein. Coin-operated vending machines based on cardboard boxes were our specialty, but now that our son is older … Continue reading
Posted in DIY, Halloween, Holiday, Sewing, Sketch
Tagged 2023, 9th Street, burlap, crafts, Creepy, crude, DIY, drawing, easy, farm, Halloween, handmade, hay, horror, Joe Williams, monster, not store bought, original, paint, Philadelphia, raffia, scarecrow, scary, Sewing, sketchbook, South Philly, spooky, straw, Tina Garceau, USA, Willceau
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Go Big or Go Home!
I think I am finally reaching the limits of the tiny sketchpads I have been favoring over the past few years. I bought some heavyweight, toned, mixed media paper that I want to play with, and I thought something dynamic … Continue reading
Posted in It Came From the Sketchbook
Tagged action, battle, comic, dynamic, fight, Frankenstein, horror, Joe Williams, Sketch, supernatural, tracing paper
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