{"id":20676,"date":"2016-05-19T03:20:43","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T07:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=20676"},"modified":"2016-05-18T21:21:38","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T01:21:38","slug":"ronalds-raygun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2016\/05\/19\/ronalds-raygun\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronald&#8217;s Raygun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Ronald's Raygun\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/26496827004\/in\/dateposted\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7207\/26496827004_b978000347_z.jpg?resize=640%2C494&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Ronald's Raygun\" width=\"640\" height=\"494\" \/><\/a>I was having some fun playing around with shapes and gradients in <em><strong>Affinity Designer. <\/strong><\/em>This program and it&#8217;s sister, <strong><em>Affinity Photo<\/em><\/strong>, have made justifying a monthly subscription fee for vector and image editing software very difficult. When they come out with their page layout program, I may be forever lost to <em>Adobe.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was having some fun playing around with shapes and gradients in Affinity Designer. This program and it&#8217;s sister, Affinity Photo, have made justifying a monthly subscription fee for vector and image editing software very difficult. When they come out &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2016\/05\/19\/ronalds-raygun\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,49],"tags":[3465,17,8,27,3869,1034],"class_list":["post-20676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illustration","category-it-came-from-the-sketchbook","tag-affinity-designer","tag-cartoon","tag-cartoons","tag-digital-illustration","tag-ronald-raygun","tag-vector"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-5nu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21182,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2016\/10\/14\/i-count-on-affinity-designer\/","url_meta":{"origin":20676,"position":0},"title":"I COUNT on Affinity Designer","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"October 14, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's a little Halloween doodle that I cooked up in my favorite vector art program Affinity Designer. Being that my son's school bus pickup time is just before dawn, I thought it appropriate to work on this icon of The Count! 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I cobbled together the Mechanical Menace with a number of the program's shape tools along with gradients and transparencies. 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It was high time I gave half of this split personality my full attention! I had worked this monster out a bit on a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Halloween&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Halloween","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/halloween\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Hyde-split-screen.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Hyde-split-screen.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Hyde-split-screen.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Hyde-split-screen.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":18399,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/03\/24\/live-and-in-poison\/","url_meta":{"origin":20676,"position":5},"title":"Live and in Poison","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"March 24, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"More whacky illustrative hi-jinx with my new favorite vector program Affinity Designer. 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