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Tag Archives: Sketch
The Creep
Fiddling around a bit with a quick little sketch which I brought into Affinity Photo.
Posted in Illustration, It Came From the Sketchbook, Sketch, Technique
Tagged Affinity Photo, comic, comics, creep, digital illustration, Illustration, Joe Williams, monster, Sketch, sketchbook, Willceau
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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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Giant Monsters at the Y
More aimless sketching at the YMCA. My son and I recently saw the big budget, American remake/reboot of the Japanese kaiju classic, and I guess the big G was floating around my brain and out through the end of my … Continue reading
Posted in It Came From the Sketchbook
Tagged Cartoon, creature, drawing, horror, Joe Williams, monster, movie, Sketch
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It’s FUN to Draw at the Y.M.C.A.
My son is a water-bug and always has been so we eventually signed him up at the local YMCA and got him squared away with swimming lessons which he took to like…a…fish to water (nice simile, Hemingway!) Our boy goes … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration, It Came From the Sketchbook
Tagged analog, athletic, bathing suit, drawing, humor, Illustration, Joe Williams, pencil, pool, Sketch, sketchbook, swimmer, USA, Willceau, YMCA
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Faster than a Speeding Primate
I was stumped for an idea for a Valentine this year so I sat with a sketchbook and hoped my pencil would do my thinking for me.
Posted in It Came From the Sketchbook, Monkey & Bird
Tagged Cartoon, cartoons, CO2 Comics, comic book, comics, digital illustration, humor, Illustration, Joe Williams, Monkey & Bird, Sketch, sketchbook
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So Long, Son of Sketchbook From Hell
Another old sketchbook that has withstood every attempt to commit a decent drawing to it’s pages has bitten the dust. It continued to fight my efforts, but occasionally when I cracked it open on the Market-Frankford El without a notion … Continue reading
Posted in It Came From the Sketchbook
Tagged Cartoon, cartoons, It Came From The Sketchbook, Joe Williams, monster, Sketch, sketchbook, Willceau
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Jocko Madigan
I wrote a post recently about another cursed sketchbook that I bought back in the ’80s. I called this particular book The Son of Sketchbook from Hell. It was a hardbound, squarish book that resisted all efforts of committing something … Continue reading
Posted in It Came From the Sketchbook
Tagged 1940s, Cartoon, cartoons, Jack Webb, Joe Williams, old time radio, Pat Novak for Hire, program, Sketch, sketchbook, Tudor Owen, Willceau
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Whoops – Wrong Arrow!
This was my Valentine to Tina. The art was going to be inked and colored in, but my schedule and I decided that the sketch looked pretty nifty so we went with that.
Posted in Drawer Cards, It Came From the Sketchbook
Tagged arrow, Cupid, humor, pencil, romance, Sketch, sketchbook, Valentine's Day, whoops
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