{"id":20187,"date":"2015-12-31T00:12:29","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T05:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=20187"},"modified":"2019-11-26T07:20:06","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T12:20:06","slug":"the-creep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/12\/31\/the-creep\/","title":{"rendered":"The Creep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/10\/22\/it-came-from-the-sketchbook-the-little-black-book\/it-came-from-the-sb-banner\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10169\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10169\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/10\/22\/it-came-from-the-sketchbook-the-little-black-book\/it-came-from-the-sb-banner\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/it-came-from-the-SB-banner.jpg?fit=800%2C120&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"800,120\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"it-came-from-the-SB-banner\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/it-came-from-the-SB-banner.jpg?fit=640%2C96&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10169\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/it-came-from-the-SB-banner.jpg?resize=640%2C96&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"it-came-from-the-SB-banner\" width=\"640\" height=\"96\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/it-came-from-the-SB-banner.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/it-came-from-the-SB-banner.jpg?resize=300%2C45&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/it-came-from-the-SB-banner.jpg?resize=250%2C37&amp;ssl=1 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5658\/24077110775_dc59cc4c9b_z.jpg?resize=452%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Creep\" width=\"452\" height=\"640\" \/>Fiddling around a bit with a quick little sketch which I brought into <a href=\"https:\/\/affinity.serif.com\/en-gb\/photo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Affinity Photo.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I scanned the sketch below; turned it grayscale; played with the levels a bit to darken it up and threw a bit of digital color around with a Wacom tablet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/12\/31\/the-creep\/creep-sketch\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20188\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"20188\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/12\/31\/the-creep\/creep-sketch\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Creep-sketch.jpg?fit=640%2C906&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,906\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Creep-sketch\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Creep&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Creep-sketch.jpg?fit=640%2C906&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-20188\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Creep-sketch.jpg?resize=450%2C637&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Creep-sketch\" width=\"450\" height=\"637\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Creep-sketch.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Creep-sketch.jpg?resize=212%2C300&amp;ssl=1 212w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a>I like this technique and will play around with it more. It&#8217;s certainly faster than the painstaking method of inking and coloring in Photoshop that I&#8217;ve done on illustration projects in the past. I think I shall revisit this method soon.<script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fiddling around a bit with a quick little sketch which I brought into Affinity Photo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,49,16,318],"tags":[3639,312,9,3799,27,3661,5,23,3663,25,3660],"class_list":["post-20187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illustration","category-it-came-from-the-sketchbook","category-sketch","category-technique","tag-affinity-photo","tag-comic","tag-comics","tag-creep","tag-digital-illustration","tag-illustration","tag-joe-williams","tag-monster","tag-sketch","tag-sketchbook","tag-willceau"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-5fB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":33089,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2019\/12\/12\/hell-toupee\/","url_meta":{"origin":20187,"position":0},"title":"Hell Toupee","author":"Joe","date":"December 12, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"I can't resist a pun. 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I've been a little lax lately with the drawing as I've allowed myself to become sidetracked by my other obsession which is computers. 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It's a fun sketch, but it won't fit in the panel I had in mind\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;It Came From the Sketchbook&quot;","block_context":{"text":"It Came From the Sketchbook","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/it-came-from-the-sketchbook\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/monkey-sleeping.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/monkey-sleeping.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/monkey-sleeping.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":45103,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2025\/05\/13\/tiptoe-through-the-sketchbooks\/","url_meta":{"origin":20187,"position":5},"title":"Tiptoe through the Sketchbooks","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"May 13, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Having finished up the Canson XL Mixed Media Sketchbook, I am working here and there in a few different sketchbooks. 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