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Tag Archives: humor
I COUNT on Affinity Designer
Here’s a little Halloween doodle that I cooked up in my favorite vector art program Affinity Designer. Being that my son’s school bus pickup time is just before dawn, I thought it appropriate to work on this icon of The … Continue reading
Posted in Halloween, Illustration, Technique
Tagged Affinity Designer, digital illustration, Dracula, humor, Illustration, Joe Williams, monster, USA, vampire, vector
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’til the Real Thing Comes Along
This year’s birthday card for the lovely Tina features the fabulous feline Plywood in a photo collage cobbled together in the astounding Affinity Photo. Happy birthday, Tina!
Posted in Drawer Cards, News, photo manipulation
Tagged birthday card, cat, collage, digital illustration, Drawer Cards, humor, Illustration, Joe Williams, rat, tuxedo, USA
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Holiday Fatigue
Somewhere at the end of the ’80s I started dating a girl just after the holidays. I sketched out this little cartoon combining Christmas, Valentine’s Day and Easter for her as a gag greeting card.
Posted in Blast from the Past, Drawer Cards, Holiday, Illustration, It Came From the Sketchbook, Sketch
Tagged 1980s, analog, Cartoon, Christmas, drawing, Easter, humor, ink, Joe Williams, Sketch, USA, Valentine's Day
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Friday Five – Number Ninety Seven
Ninety-seventh in a series creating a collage using five elements.
Posted in Friday Five
Tagged collage, design, digital illustration, fire, flames, Halloween, horror, humor, Illustration, skeleton, skulls, Tina Garceau, USA
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Tradition!
It is Tina’s and my tradition to exchange cards we’ve made ourselves for holidays, birthdays and anniversaries rather than add to the pile of clutter exchanging gifts to be forgotten. My wife is not really the Kay Jeweler type, and … Continue reading
Posted in Drawer Cards
Tagged 18th anniversary, anniversary, digital illustration, Drawer Cards, humor, Joe Williams, porcelain, Tina Garceau, USA
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Scarf Boy
A while back the site Stuff White People Like did one of their many lists of objects and activities particular to Caucasians, and one of them was women wearing scarves as a year ’round fashion accessory. I chuckled because I … Continue reading
Posted in Adventures in Commuting, It Came From the Sketchbook
Tagged art, Cartoon, cartoons, commute, drawing, fashion, fun, heat, humor, Illustration, Joe Williams, metrosexual, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, scarf, Sketch, sketchbook, summer, USA, Willceau
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A Missed Opportunity
With the remakes and reboots of Planet of the Apes that have been playing out in cinemas in recent years I’m surprised nobody has decided to put these swinging medallions back on the market.
Posted in What I Miss About Comics
Tagged Cartoon, CO2 Comics, comic book, Guardians of the Galaxy, humor, Marvel, medallions, monkey, pendant, Planet of the Apes, science fiction, The Defenders, USA, vintage
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Up on the 7th Floor on an Evening in ’85
One evening back in April of 1985 rather than do work that was due for one of our classes at the Philadelphia College of Art a group of guys up on the Illustration Floor decided to procrastinate by doing some … Continue reading
Posted in Blast from the Past, It Came From the Sketchbook
Tagged Cartoon, cartoons, comic, Ely, humor, Illustration, Joe Williams, Philadelphia, Philadelphia College of Art, UArts, USA
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Mister Maurice’s Magic Mustache
Posted in Animated GIF, News
Tagged animated gif, animation, humor, mustache, old, Tina Garceau, vintage photographs
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