{"id":21182,"date":"2016-10-14T07:19:03","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T11:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=21182"},"modified":"2023-04-16T12:06:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-16T16:06:00","slug":"i-count-on-affinity-designer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2016\/10\/14\/i-count-on-affinity-designer\/","title":{"rendered":"I COUNT on Affinity Designer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"The Count in Affinity Designer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/30022386700\/in\/photolist-4QdaPP-4Soy5u-MJYzAU-6Spzty-2bMbH2M-7UeS71-2mGyLU9-nY8ahS-MF4X65-6CBT6o-27PNVe3-2j7TVJL-aet3oN\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/7461\/30022386700_6c104c7673_z.jpg?resize=640%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Count in Affinity Designer\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>Here&#8217;s a little Halloween doodle that I cooked up in my favorite vector art program <a href=\"https:\/\/affinity.serif.com\/en-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Affinity Designer<\/em><\/a>. Being that my son&#8217;s school bus pickup time is just before dawn, I thought it appropriate to work on this icon of <em>The Count!<\/em> A couple of mornings before sunrise fiddling with shapes produced this little monster. Now that my son is off to school and the sun is rising, it&#8217;s time to put this vector vampire away in his crypt.<\/p>\n<p><em>Happy Halloween!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a little Halloween doodle that I cooked up in my favorite vector art program Affinity Designer. Being that my son&#8217;s school bus pickup time is just before dawn, I thought it appropriate to work on this icon of The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2016\/10\/14\/i-count-on-affinity-designer\/\">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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_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":[82,7,318],"tags":[3465,27,719,43,3661,5,23,480,724,1034],"class_list":["post-21182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween","category-illustration","category-technique","tag-affinity-designer","tag-digital-illustration","tag-dracula","tag-humor","tag-illustration","tag-joe-williams","tag-monster","tag-usa","tag-vampire","tag-vector"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-5vE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21259,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2016\/10\/28\/affinity-designer-after-midnight\/","url_meta":{"origin":21182,"position":0},"title":"Affinity Designer After Midnight","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"October 28, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's another Halloween Horror Head I created in Affinity Designer while I waited for my son's early morning bus. I was trying to do something different, but I wound up with another vampire. This one is based on Lon Chaney's iconic monster. from the silent classic London After Midnight.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Halloween&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Halloween","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/halloween\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"London after Midnight","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c3.staticflickr.com\/6\/5593\/29978168554_051b0c6de3.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":21200,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2016\/10\/18\/mechanical-menace-in-affinity-designer\/","url_meta":{"origin":21182,"position":1},"title":"Mechanical Menace in Affinity Designer","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"October 18, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's another doodle similar to The Count which I cooked up over the course of a couple of early mornings using the vector art program extraordinaire Affinity Designer. I cobbled together the Mechanical Menace with a number of the program's shape tools along with gradients and transparencies. This was 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\/2016\/10\/Mechanical_Menace-4.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Mechanical_Menace-4.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Mechanical_Menace-4.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":25911,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2019\/10\/16\/the-ghost\/","url_meta":{"origin":21182,"position":2},"title":"The Ghost","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"October 16, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"This is another in a Halloween themed series of illustrations I put together in the superlative vector art program known as Affinity Designer. See more of my vector illustrations HERE!","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Halloween&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Halloween","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/halloween\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"The Ghost","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48904620292_2c5a83866f_z.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48904620292_2c5a83866f_z.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48904620292_2c5a83866f_z.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":25898,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2019\/10\/14\/the-witch\/","url_meta":{"origin":21182,"position":3},"title":"The Witch","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"October 14, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Another vector Halloween Head created in Affinity Designer.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Halloween&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Halloween","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/halloween\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Vector Witch","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/the-witch-3-AD.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/the-witch-3-AD.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/the-witch-3-AD.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":44919,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2025\/04\/16\/1980%e5%b9%b4%e4%bb%a3%e3%81%ae%e6%9d%b1%e4%ba%ac%e3%81%ae%e5%90%b8%e8%a1%80%e9%ac%bc\/","url_meta":{"origin":21182,"position":4},"title":"1980\u5e74\u4ee3\u306e\u6771\u4eac\u306e\u5438\u8840\u9b3c","author":"Joe","date":"April 16, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Tokyo Vampire Circa 1980s It seems that my series of Halloween Heads has started anew with the completion of a Japanese vampire on the heels of last week's Phantom of the Opera. Halloween Heads are illustrations of monsters I've created in the superlative vector art application Affinity Designer. Generally, I\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\/2025\/04\/1980s-Tokyo-Vampire-final.jpg?fit=900%2C900&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1980s-Tokyo-Vampire-final.jpg?fit=900%2C900&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1980s-Tokyo-Vampire-final.jpg?fit=900%2C900&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1980s-Tokyo-Vampire-final.jpg?fit=900%2C900&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":44976,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2025\/04\/23\/the-diplomat-from-grorfleplotz\/","url_meta":{"origin":21182,"position":5},"title":"The Diplomat from Grorfleplotz","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"April 23, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Once again I am ricocheting back and forth between analog and digital illustration. 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