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Tag Archives: humor
Booga Booga Booga
I’m back with It Came From the Sketchbook and once again my subjects are The Teenage Beast and the hapless punk rock gal. I’m piecing together a story via sketchbooks which is fun and much more effective than jotting down … Continue reading
Posted in Doodle Tuesday, Illustration, It Came From the Sketchbook
Tagged 1980s, analog, comic, horror, humor, Illustration, Joe Williams, monster, punk rock girl, Sketch, sketchbook, Teenage Beast, USA
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A Doodle for a Tuesday
A scribble in a cheap sketchbook…
Posted in Doodle Tuesday, It Came From the Sketchbook
Tagged analog, Cartoon, doodle, drawing, humor, Illustration, ink, Joe Williams, pencil, Sketch
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The Countess Amarela
As I am working on my digital illustrations and vector graphics I often save versions of my files as I go along in case I have to backtrack. It might be that I have turned down a creative blind alley … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration, Vector Illustration
Tagged Affinity Designer, art, digital illustration, humor, Illustration, Joe Williams, USA, vector
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Zombie Buffet
As I sketch in my sketchbooks I usually have trash playing on the streaming box connected to the television. Despite having a number of pay channels I scored during Black Friday specials, I tend to tune into TubiTV which is … Continue reading
Posted in Blast from the Past, Weird World of the Roku, What's on TV?
Tagged 1974, blood, Canada, gore, horror, humor, monster, Roku, streaming, TubiTV, zombie
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1980年代の東京の吸血鬼
Tokyo Vampire Circa 1980s It seems that my series of Halloween Heads has started anew with the completion of a Japanese vampire on the heels of last week’s Phantom of the Opera. Halloween Heads are illustrations of monsters I’ve created … Continue reading
Posted in Halloween, Illustration, Vector Illustration
Tagged #AffinityDesigner, #madeinaffinity, 1980s, 1980年代の東京の吸血鬼, Affinity Designer, creature, digital illustration, horror, humor, Illustration, Japan, Joe Williams, monster, New Wave, red, USA, vampire, vector
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Phantom of the Opera
Although Halloween is 204 days away, I have been working on a new Halloween Head in the superlative vector art program Affinity Designer!
What’s on TV?
While I sketch, I usually have the television tuned to programs I can halfway ignore. TubiTV seems to be the streaming channel that keeps giving in that regard. While it does show a lot of blockbusters and critically acclaimed movies … Continue reading
Posted in Weird World of the Roku, What's on TV?
Tagged exploitation, humor, prison, Roku, streaming, trash, Tubi, USA
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Tina Garceau • 2015 in review
Today we continue to present Miss Tina Garceau’s ongoing series of collages using five elements. She calls the series The Friday Five and the gallery below represents her work for 2015 which includes Friday Five No. 72 through No. 99. … Continue reading
Posted in News
Tagged 2015, assemblage, collage, digital illustration, Friday Five, humor, Illustration, photography, Photoshop, Tina Garceau, USA
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It Came from the Filing Cabinet
My obsession with a drawing I penciled almost 40 years ago continues and keeps dragging me back no matter what I do. It started when I was trying to organize a flat file cabinet and I came upon the penciled … Continue reading
Posted in Curious Clutter, Doodle Tuesday, Illustration, It Came From the Sketchbook
Tagged 1980s, analog, comic, comics, creature, drawing, hardcore, humor, Illustration, inking, Joe Williams, monster, music, punk, ransom letters, The Cramps, USA
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