{"id":21259,"date":"2016-10-28T05:03:55","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T09:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=21259"},"modified":"2016-10-27T22:06:51","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T02:06:51","slug":"affinity-designer-after-midnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2016\/10\/28\/affinity-designer-after-midnight\/","title":{"rendered":"Affinity Designer After Midnight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"London after Midnight\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/29978168554\/in\/dateposted\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c3.staticflickr.com\/6\/5593\/29978168554_051b0c6de3.jpg?resize=500%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"London after Midnight\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>Here&#8217;s another <em>Halloween Horror Head<\/em> I created in <a href=\"https:\/\/affinity.serif.com\/en-us\/\"><em>Affinity Designer<\/em><\/a> while I waited for my son&#8217;s early morning bus. I was trying to do something different, but I wound up with another <a href=\"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2016\/10\/14\/i-count-on-affinity-designer\/\" target=\"_blank\">vampire<\/a>. This one is based on Lon Chaney&#8217;s iconic monster. from the silent classic <em>London After Midnight.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another Halloween Horror Head I created in Affinity Designer while I waited for my son&#8217;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&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2016\/10\/28\/affinity-designer-after-midnight\/\">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":[3981,3465,17,8,27,3994,76,43,3661,5,3992,3993,23,1034,3660],"class_list":["post-21259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween","category-illustration","category-pixels-versus-pigment","category-technique","tag-affinitydesigner","tag-affinity-designer","tag-cartoon","tag-cartoons","tag-digital-illustration","tag-fog","tag-horror","tag-humor","tag-illustration","tag-joe-williams","tag-lon-chaney","tag-london-after-midnight","tag-monster","tag-vector","tag-willceau"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-5wT","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":21259,"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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Today I am back in the digital domain with my latest Halloween Head which I call The Diplomat from Grorfleplotz. I'm not sure what the specific honorific would be for this diplomat from the far distant planet\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\/The-Diplomat-from-Grorfleplotz-full-frame.jpg?fit=640%2C680&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/The-Diplomat-from-Grorfleplotz-full-frame.jpg?fit=640%2C680&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/The-Diplomat-from-Grorfleplotz-full-frame.jpg?fit=640%2C680&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":21226,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2016\/10\/20\/zombie-in-affinity-designer\/","url_meta":{"origin":21259,"position":3},"title":"Zombie in Affinity Designer","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"October 20, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Here is yet another Halloween Horror Head I created in Affinity Designer. This guy is a zombie, but not the flesh-eating variety that first hit cinema screens back in 1968 and seem to have never left. I meant this guy as more of a traditional zombie of Voodoo legend and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Halloween&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Halloween","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/halloween\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Zombie in Affinity Designer","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c4.staticflickr.com\/6\/5609\/30433786155_99fc6ba99f.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":25941,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2019\/10\/22\/the-legend-of-sleepy-hollow\/","url_meta":{"origin":21259,"position":4},"title":"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"October 22, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"This is a variation of my 23rd anniversary card that I posted recently. I had designed the card with a Halloween notion in mind, and it was a small matter to swap out the 23 with a Jack O' Lantern face. I also swapped out the background for what 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\/2019\/10\/sleepy-hollow-split-view.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/sleepy-hollow-split-view.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/sleepy-hollow-split-view.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/sleepy-hollow-split-view.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":45005,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2025\/04\/30\/halloween-heads-the-mummy\/","url_meta":{"origin":21259,"position":5},"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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