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Tag Archives: technical pen
London After Midnight
Sketchbook sketch from July of 1985 of Lon Chaney from his sadly lost London After Midnight. Done in technical pen in a Strathmore wire-bound sketchbook.
Posted in It Came From the Sketchbook, Sketch
Tagged Illustration, Joe Williams, technical pen, Willceau
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Driving the Big White Bus
For some reason this is one of my most popular images on my Flickr! account. If I knew puke cartoons were going to be so popular, I would have done little else. I drew this in a sketchbook using Koh-i-nor … Continue reading
Posted in Blast from the Past, Illustration, Sketch
Tagged Cartoon, humor, Illustration, Joe Williams, puke, ralph, technical pen, technicolor yawn, vomit, Willceau
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My First Paying Job
This was my first paying freelance job. It was an illustration for the Jewish Exponent accompanying an article that had something to do with what the former hippies were up to 20 years after the hippie era. Essentially, they told … Continue reading
Posted in Blast from the Past, Illustration
Tagged Cartoon, Hippie, Illustration, Joe Williams, technical pen
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The Joisey Debbil
This was a sketch I did in a sketchbook using my former weapon of choice way back in 1986. I was hanging out with Dan Platt who was trying to visualize the legendary Jersey Devil in clay. He kept reading … Continue reading
Posted in Sketch
Tagged Jersey Devil, Joe Williams, monster, sketchbook, technical pen, Willceau
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