{"id":21242,"date":"2016-10-23T07:50:25","date_gmt":"2016-10-23T11:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=21242"},"modified":"2016-10-23T07:50:25","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T11:50:25","slug":"i-was-a-vector-frankenstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2016\/10\/23\/i-was-a-vector-frankenstein\/","title":{"rendered":"I Was a Vector Frankenstein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"I Was a Vector Frankenstein\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/30490631525\/in\/dateposted\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c6.staticflickr.com\/6\/5498\/30490631525_1d0fa0f12d.jpg?resize=500%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"I Was a Vector Frankenstein\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>This was the guy that started it all. I did him as an icon experiment in <em>Adobe Illustrator<\/em> back in 2006. I was trying to keep it as simple as possible and played with the blending modes of the various layers. I was pleased with the way it came out so I tried some other monsters in the same rectangular format. That didn&#8217;t work out. The format fought me all the way, and never went too much further than the sketch stage. I deserted the notion until recently when I fired up <em>Affinity Designer<\/em> and proceeded to doodle. The new software and 10 years seemed to make the difference.<\/p>\n<p>Truth be told, I did bring this 10-year old Illustrator file into <em>Affinity Designer<\/em> to resize it and to place the watermark in order to match the others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was the guy that started it all. I did him as an icon experiment in Adobe Illustrator back in 2006. I was trying to keep it as simple as possible and played with the blending modes of the various &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2016\/10\/23\/i-was-a-vector-frankenstein\/\">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":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":[82,7,700,318],"tags":[1191,55,17,8,27,67,3668,76,43,5,23,3990,1034,3660],"class_list":["post-21242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween","category-illustration","category-pixels-versus-pigment","category-technique","tag-1191","tag-adobe-illustrator","tag-cartoon","tag-cartoons","tag-digital-illustration","tag-frankenstein","tag-halloween","tag-horror","tag-humor","tag-joe-williams","tag-monster","tag-shelley","tag-vector","tag-willceau"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-5wC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":45005,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2025\/04\/30\/halloween-heads-the-mummy\/","url_meta":{"origin":21242,"position":0},"title":"Halloween Heads \u2022 The Mummy","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"April 30, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"I know Halloween is 184 days away, but being a dyed-in-the-wool horror movie fan, I always seem to be in the Halloween Spirit! 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