{"id":21921,"date":"2017-03-24T06:09:40","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T10:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?page_id=21921"},"modified":"2025-02-18T10:27:54","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T15:27:54","slug":"it-came-from-the-sketchbook","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/it-came-from-the-sketchbook\/","title":{"rendered":"Williams Sketchbook Gallery \u2022 It Came From the Sketchbook!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Click on the image or hyperlink below to take you to that particular gallery.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Teenage Beast<\/strong><\/a>
\nThis is a punk era horror story that I started after I exited The Philadelphia College of Art<\/em> in the mid 1980s. It seemed like a good idea at the time, but for reasons forgotten, I put it aside. Over Christmas 2024 I found some old pencil drawings of this character, and I started to finish them with ink. I got fired up and started a series of drawings that are turning into a story.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Digital Doodles<\/strong><\/a>
\nThis category contains some of the digital doodles I do during downtime. It may be while waiting for some data to process at work or particularly dull days on the internet. Most of these are done in Affinity Designer<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Howling at the Moon<\/strong><\/a>
\nWerewolves, wolf-men, lycanthropes and all those affected by the lunar cycle although I am excluding lunatics<\/em>. This category is for those who sprout fangs and fur when “…the moon is full and bright.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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Po<\/strong>\"\"st Apocalyptic New Jersey<\/strong><\/a>
\nFollowing a nuclear conflagration in 1981, the once verdant Garden State<\/em> is reduced to a hellscape overrun by mutants, monsters and merciless marauders. This is the skeleton of a story to which I am adding flesh in my sketchbooks. It may be a comic one day.<\/p>\n

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Observances<\/strong><\/a>
\nMe not minding my own business. Sketches of people either on the subway, the bus or somewhere out in public. Either I would try drawing the subject in person and tried not to be too obvious about it or committed my victim to memory to draw later.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Frankenstein Monster<\/strong><\/a>
\nIt seems to me that I would have a hard time not drawing the Frankenstein Monster. He has always been a favorite and has always had a home among my various scratch pads.<\/p>\n

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\"Lady<\/a><\/p>\n

Damsels, Dastardly Villans and Dinosaurs<\/strong><\/a>
\nDamsels in distress, villains causing distress and fearfully great reptiles drawn together or separately. A lot of these drawings are attempts at working out action compositions<\/p>\n

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Sketchbook \u2022 Monkey & Bird<\/strong><\/a>
\nThis was one of the more popular web comics published at CO2 Comics a while back. It was the romantic adventures of a monkey and bird who met in the jungle and fell in love. I wrote and drew it while Tina colored and created backgrounds. You will find sketches and preliminary work here.<\/p>\n

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\"Cosmic<\/a><\/p>\n

Drawer Cards<\/strong><\/a>
\nIn the event of birthdays, anniversaries and a few other holidays, Tina and I exchange cards we make for one another. It certainly saves on the clutter and we end up with something truly unique. This category is my cards to Tina.<\/p>\n

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Jun<\/a>\"\"<\/a>k Drawer<\/a><\/strong>
\nThe miscellany \u2014 the odds and ends that don\u2019t really fit the other categories. Take a look. There are scribbles, doodles and a few things that saw print. There\u2019s something in there for everyone.<\/p>\n

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