{"id":21831,"date":"2017-03-11T10:13:03","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T15:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=21831"},"modified":"2019-11-26T07:24:28","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T12:24:28","slug":"which-one-is-pink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2017\/03\/11\/which-one-is-pink\/","title":{"rendered":"Which One is Pink?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Which one is Pink?\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/32534175754\/in\/dateposted\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c1.staticflickr.com\/3\/2920\/32534175754_0bbc53b75e_z.jpg?resize=611%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Pink Zeppelin \" width=\"611\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>This post is sort of an addendum to my <a href=\"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2017\/03\/09\/rumble-in-the-record-store\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">earlier post<\/a>. It&#8217;s the digital cherry on my analog sundae.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This morning I was playing with a hand-drawn doodle featured in <a href=\"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2017\/03\/09\/rumble-in-the-record-store\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rumble in the Record Store<\/a>. I always meant to have a logo on my mutant monster&#8217;s tee-shirt, but I wasn&#8217;t sure how to go about it. I was considering painting it out in a liquid frisket\/resisting fluid; work up the drawing and then peel the frisket off leaving a logo sort of like tan lines. Nah! I went back to pixels for this solution.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"21832\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2017\/03\/11\/which-one-is-pink\/affinity-designer-screenshot-pz\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Affinity-Designer-screenshot-PZ.jpg?fit=540%2C338&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"540,338\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Affinity-Designer-screenshot-PZ\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Affinity-Designer-screenshot-PZ.jpg?fit=540%2C338&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21832\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Affinity-Designer-screenshot-PZ.jpg?resize=540%2C338&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Affinity-Designer-screenshot-PZ.jpg?w=540&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Affinity-Designer-screenshot-PZ.jpg?resize=300%2C188&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/>The drawing was already scanned so I\u00a0 brought it into <em>Affinity Photo<\/em> and merged it with a logo I cobbled together in <em>Super Vectorizer<\/em> and <em>Affinity Designer.<\/em> I placed the logo; rasterized it; liquefied it and played with various layer blending modes. <em>Voila!<\/em> Now my two-headed nightmare from High School is complete with a tee-shirt graphic!<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately when this story is finished, it will be laid out digitally. There is no way to avoid it in this day and age. Besides, my hand lettering is <em>atrocious,<\/em> and the word balloons, sound effects and what-have-you will be made on the computer.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3867\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/08\/31\/pixels-or-pigment-make-up-yor-mind\/pixel-v-pigment\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Pixel-v-Pigment.jpg?fit=640%2C165&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,165\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Pixel-v-Pigment\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Pixel-v-Pigment.jpg?fit=640%2C165&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3867\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Pixel-v-Pigment.jpg?resize=640%2C165&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Pixel-v-Pigment.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Pixel-v-Pigment.jpg?resize=300%2C77&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is sort of an addendum to my earlier post. It&#8217;s the digital cherry on my analog sundae.<\/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":[49,700],"tags":[3981,3465,3639,158,312,726,9,27,20,43,3661,5,4091,23,2030,4090,480],"class_list":["post-21831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-came-from-the-sketchbook","category-pixels-versus-pigment","tag-affinitydesigner","tag-affinity-designer","tag-affinity-photo","tag-analog","tag-comic","tag-comic-book","tag-comics","tag-digital-illustration","tag-handmade","tag-humor","tag-illustration","tag-joe-williams","tag-led-zeppelin","tag-monster","tag-pencil","tag-pink-floyd","tag-usa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-5G7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":42659,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2024\/03\/12\/tuesday-digital-doodle-gritty-city\/","url_meta":{"origin":21831,"position":0},"title":"Tuesday Digital Doodle \u2022 Gritty City","author":"Joe","date":"March 12, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Back in the '80s, there were a number of guys in art school playing with grayscale textures created by flicking a toothbrush loaded with ink onto a piece of bristol or illustration board. They would carefully cut frisket masks like a stencil and painstakingly flick an inky toothbrush at the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Doodle Tuesday&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Doodle Tuesday","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/it-came-from-the-sketchbook\/doodle-tuesday\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/texture-city.jpg?fit=800%2C517&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/texture-city.jpg?fit=800%2C517&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/texture-city.jpg?fit=800%2C517&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/texture-city.jpg?fit=800%2C517&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":44976,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2025\/04\/23\/the-diplomat-from-grorfleplotz\/","url_meta":{"origin":21831,"position":1},"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. 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":39260,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/10\/12\/leaning-towards-pigments\/","url_meta":{"origin":21831,"position":2},"title":"It&#8217;s Pixels Versus Pigments, Again","author":"Joe","date":"October 12, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"The late, great Dan Love was a good friend and a technological guru who pushed me kicking and screaming into new computers and gadgets I never realized I needed until I started to use them. 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I like this technique and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Illustration&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Illustration","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/illustration\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Creep-sketch.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Creep-sketch.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Creep-sketch.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":43541,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2024\/07\/11\/the-frankenstein-monster-in-color\/","url_meta":{"origin":21831,"position":4},"title":"The Frankenstein Monster in COLOR","author":"Joe","date":"July 11, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"This panel from The Frankenstein Monster No. 10 published by Marvel in 1974 screamed out to me. I miss traditional comic coloring! It is so much better than the overwrought digital coloring found in modern comics. Art by John Buscema \/ inks by Giacoia and Esposito \/ Color by P.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;What I Miss About Comics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"What I Miss About Comics","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/what-i-miss-about-comics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Panel from Frankenstein Monster No 10","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53846466278_dac245c5d2_z.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53846466278_dac245c5d2_z.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53846466278_dac245c5d2_z.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":22141,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2017\/04\/15\/swing-and-a-miss\/","url_meta":{"origin":21831,"position":5},"title":"Swing and a Miss","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"April 15, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Here is another doodle with Derwent Dark Wash pencils. 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