{"id":23859,"date":"2018-06-14T07:27:24","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T11:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=23859"},"modified":"2019-11-26T19:14:04","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T00:14:04","slug":"work-in-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2018\/06\/14\/work-in-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Work in Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I’m still working on the vector illustration that I’ve written about recently<\/a>, and it’s proving to be more involved than I originally thought it would be. I’ve been designing monsters<\/a> which come to me more easily than what I am attempting with this illustration. This is also a more involved scene with more characters involved and while I have an image in my head and a few pencil sketched plans, I’m still figuring it out as I go along. It feels as if I am crafting the pieces as I am assembling the puzzle.<\/p>\n

My tool of choice is the superlative vector illustration and design program known as Affinity Designer.<\/em> It is similar to Adobe Illustrator<\/em>, but it does not suffer the bloat or the subscription fee of it’s more famous competitor. The interface is fairly intuitive, and it’s easy to get up and running after a few of their free video tutorials<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m still working on the vector illustration that I’ve written about recently, and it’s proving to be more involved than I originally thought it would be. I’ve been designing monsters which come to me more easily than what I am … 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_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":[7,700,318],"tags":[3981,3465,17,8,27,3661,5,480,1034,3660],"class_list":["post-23859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illustration","category-pixels-versus-pigment","category-technique","tag-affinitydesigner","tag-affinity-designer","tag-cartoon","tag-cartoons","tag-digital-illustration","tag-illustration","tag-joe-williams","tag-usa","tag-vector","tag-willceau"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-6cP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":36628,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2021\/10\/14\/mister-hyde\/","url_meta":{"origin":23859,"position":0},"title":"Mister HYDE","author":"Joe","date":"October 14, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"I was trying to come up with another idea for a Halloween Head when I realized I had never done Dr Jekyll's monstrous alter-ego Mr Hyde. 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