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Tag Archives: Sketch
Mop Top Monster
…or Shempenstein. A sketchbook sketch I did 20 years ago and forgot about. Done in technical pen.
Posted in It Came From the Sketchbook
Tagged 1989, Frankenstein, Joe Williams, monster, Sketch, sketchbook
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Route 23 Fashion Plate
I don’t own a car and wind up taking the bus or train when I can’t get where I’m going on foot. I was on Septa’s Route 23 Bus heading South when I spied this beauty. Putting it politely, this … Continue reading
Posted in Adventures in Commuting
Tagged bus, digital illustration, fashion, Joe Williams, SEPTA, Sketch, sketchbook, zoftig
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The Kid Gets Into The Act
This is our son’s drawing of a rabbit. Mom helped out with the color and the background.
Posted in Stuff Joe Likes, Uncategorized
Tagged Joe Williams, Sketch, sketchbook, Tina Garceau, Willceau
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Bell Man & Beverage Boy
This is another fun idea that never quite made it. Back in the late ’80s, early ’90s I was working with a couple of guys trying to dig up freelance clients in need of graphic design and/or illustration. We were … Continue reading
Posted in Blast from the Past, It Came From the Sketchbook, Sketch
Tagged comics, Joe Williams, Sketch, sketchbook, super-hero
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The Modern Prometheus
Sometimes I do sketches that I keep meaning to chase down again. This version of the Frankenstein Monster is among them. I was working on a company Christmas card that I wasn’t really enthusiastic about, and this fellow kept … Continue reading
Posted in Blast from the Past, It Came From the Sketchbook, Sketch
Tagged Frankenstein, Joe Williams, monster, Sketch, sketchbook
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Vampire/Rat Man
Another pen and ink doodle from the mid-80s. Technical pens were my weapon of choice at the time.
Posted in It Came From the Sketchbook, Sketch
Tagged Joe Williams, Sketch, sketchbook, technical pen
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Room With a View
View from a window in Amsterdam.
Teenage Beast
Another sketchbook variation of the Teenage Beast A.K.A. Goo Goo Muck that I did back in the 1980s. In true, ’80s, monster movie fashion as the movie progresses, our hero turns into a bigger and badder monster as the remnants … Continue reading
Posted in Blast from the Past, It Came From the Sketchbook
Tagged Joe Williams, monster, mutant, Sketch, sketchbook, technical pen, Willceau
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‘Lantic City
Some time back in the mid-’80s I saw an ad looking for illustrators for a magazine for and about the gaming industry in Atlantic City. They were looking for sketches so I did some sketches, Xeroxed them and sent them … Continue reading
Posted in Blast from the Past, It Came From the Sketchbook
Tagged cartoons, Joe Williams, Sketch, sketchbook, Willceau
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