{"id":23659,"date":"2018-05-17T06:20:22","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T10:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=23659"},"modified":"2019-11-26T19:14:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T00:14:00","slug":"the-atomic-warrior-the-vector-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2018\/05\/17\/the-atomic-warrior-the-vector-version\/","title":{"rendered":"The Atomic Warrior – The Vector Version"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The<\/a>Here is a version of my Atomic Warrior<\/em><\/a> character that I produced in Affinity Designer.<\/em> I had a notion of what if George Lucas was never able to get the money he wanted to shoot<\/em> Star Wars<\/em><\/strong> and instead put it together on a shoestring budget.<\/em> This was my villain. I used it as the basis of a Halloween costume for my son<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"I worked this creature up similarly to the series of Monster Heads<\/em><\/a> I whipped up a while back. Hopefully this will be the start of a new series, but instead of classic creatures, they will be of my own invention. Stay tuned!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here is a version of my Atomic Warrior character that I produced in Affinity Designer. I had a notion of what if George Lucas was never able to get the money he wanted to shoot Star Wars and instead put … Continue reading →<\/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":false,"_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":[7,16,318],"tags":[3981,3465,4057,17,8,3199,27,3661,5,23,4392,178,2201,480,1034,3660],"class_list":["post-23659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illustration","category-sketch","category-technique","tag-affinitydesigner","tag-affinity-designer","tag-atomic-warrior","tag-cartoon","tag-cartoons","tag-creature","tag-digital-illustration","tag-illustration","tag-joe-williams","tag-monster","tag-resolution-independent","tag-robot","tag-skull","tag-usa","tag-vector","tag-willceau"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-69B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23751,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2018\/05\/30\/sneak-preview\/","url_meta":{"origin":23659,"position":0},"title":"Sneak Preview","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"May 30, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"I was hoping to have another vector illustration ready for Willceau Illo this week, but this is proving to be somewhat more complicated than my two-headed monster from last week and the Atomic Warrior from the week before. There are a few elements of this one that I am still\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Illustration"","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\/2018\/05\/concert-girl-in-progress.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/concert-girl-in-progress.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/concert-girl-in-progress.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/concert-girl-in-progress.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":23701,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2018\/05\/23\/pink-zeppelin-the-vector-version\/","url_meta":{"origin":23659,"position":1},"title":"Pink Zeppelin – The Vector Version","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"May 23, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"IN THE FUTURE... is how these things usually start, but this terrible tale takes place\u00a0IN THE PAST... A nuclear conflagration ended the world as we knew it in 1980.\u00a0Hellfire rained from the sky leaving pitiful few to battle it out for survival with monstrous mutations and perversions of science in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Illustration"","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\/2018\/05\/Pink-zeppelin-splitscreen.jpg?fit=1000%2C625&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Pink-zeppelin-splitscreen.jpg?fit=1000%2C625&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Pink-zeppelin-splitscreen.jpg?fit=1000%2C625&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Pink-zeppelin-splitscreen.jpg?fit=1000%2C625&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":21182,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2016\/10\/14\/i-count-on-affinity-designer\/","url_meta":{"origin":23659,"position":2},"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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It might be that I have turned down a creative blind alley or that a hard drive has given up the ghost.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Illustration"","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\/2025\/05\/early-Lady-Bathory-2.jpg?fit=1000%2C1000&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/early-Lady-Bathory-2.jpg?fit=1000%2C1000&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/early-Lady-Bathory-2.jpg?fit=1000%2C1000&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/early-Lady-Bathory-2.jpg?fit=1000%2C1000&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":25898,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2019\/10\/14\/the-witch\/","url_meta":{"origin":23659,"position":4},"title":"The Witch","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"October 14, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Another vector Halloween Head created in Affinity Designer.","rel":"","context":"In "Halloween"","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":21200,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2016\/10\/18\/mechanical-menace-in-affinity-designer\/","url_meta":{"origin":23659,"position":5},"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. 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