{"id":21236,"date":"2016-10-22T10:32:59","date_gmt":"2016-10-22T14:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=21236"},"modified":"2016-10-22T10:34:14","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T14:34:14","slug":"i-was-a-vector-werewolf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2016\/10\/22\/i-was-a-vector-werewolf\/","title":{"rendered":"I Was a Vector Werewolf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"I Was a Vector Werewolf\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/30452182696\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c1.staticflickr.com\/6\/5793\/30452182696_c21c298766.jpg?resize=500%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"I Was a Vector Werewolf\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>Here&#8217;s another Halloween Head I created in <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/macaffinity\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Affinity Designer<\/em><\/a> as I&#8217;ve spent my too early mornings waiting for my son&#8217;s school bus<em>,<\/em> and if I say so myself, I am pretty pleased with this. I really wanted to do a <em>werewolf,<\/em> and I had tried several passes in both <em>Adobe Illustrator<\/em> and Affinity&#8217;s product over time only to be unhappy with the shape of the head. There are a number of half-baked and abandoned attempts, but this one took.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure how many more of these monsters I have in me, but I can see myself continuing. <a href=\"https:\/\/affinity.serif.com\/en-us\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Affinity Designer<\/em><\/a> is just too much fun. I thought I would have a hard time designing on a touch-pad on an old MacBook Pro, but it really hasn&#8217;t been too bad. I thought I would have broken out a mouse or a tablet, but it hasn&#8217;t happened yet. I&#8217;ve played with other <em>apps<\/em> (I hate that term) that were going to kill Adobe&#8217;s dominant line of desktop software only to think, <em>&#8220;Gee, fellas, good luck with that in the future,&#8221;<\/em> but I think the <em>Affinity<\/em> folks really did their homework. They are here to stay! As I said before, their software is a pleasure to use, and I can&#8217;t wait to give their upcoming page layout program a spin!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another Halloween Head I created in Affinity Designer as I&#8217;ve spent my too early mornings waiting for my son&#8217;s school bus, and if I say so myself, I am pretty pleased with this. I really wanted to do a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2016\/10\/22\/i-was-a-vector-werewolf\/\">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":true,"_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":[82,7,700,318],"tags":[3465,3199,27,3668,3989,43,3661,5,3988,23,1034,640,3660,3987],"class_list":["post-21236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween","category-illustration","category-pixels-versus-pigment","category-technique","tag-affinity-designer","tag-creature","tag-digital-illustration","tag-halloween","tag-halloween-head","tag-humor","tag-illustration","tag-joe-williams","tag-lycanthropy","tag-monster","tag-vector","tag-werewolf","tag-willceau","tag-wolf-man"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-5ww","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25911,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2019\/10\/16\/the-ghost\/","url_meta":{"origin":21236,"position":0},"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. 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