{"id":24008,"date":"2018-07-12T04:47:45","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T08:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=24008"},"modified":"2018-07-12T11:03:48","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T15:03:48","slug":"szpieg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2018\/07\/12\/szpieg\/","title":{"rendered":"Szpieg"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Szpieg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

After my Grandma Went to Altamont\u00a0<\/i><\/a>illustrations that I produced in Affinity Designer, I was looking for a new subject matter to put the program and myself to the test. Originally I wanted to do an old-time, pulp magazine cover similar to The Shadow<\/em> or The Spider, Master of Men<\/em>, and I still want to chase down something like that, but it was a struggle. Then I ended up poking around some sketches and doodles I did in Designer back when I first got it. I opened up a file that had a detective-looking character that I had played with, abandoned and forgot. I started playing around with it again, and\u00a0Szpieg <\/i>was the result.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Szpieg<\/i> is Polish for spy.<\/i> I thought the word\u00a0spy<\/em> being only three letters long would be kind of boring and wouldn’t fit the space too well so I looked for a foreign word that looked more interesting. I was going to go with the French\u00a0espion,<\/i> but the word\u00a0szpieg<\/i> looks and sounds<\/a> so much more interesting.\u00a0Dzi\u0119kuj\u0119, Poland!<\/em><\/p>\n

Originally, I was going to go with the Polish word\u00a0szpiegowa\u0107<\/em> which looks and sounds<\/a> fantastic, but further research revealed the word to be a verb.\u00a0Szpiegowa\u0107<\/em> means to act as a spy, <\/em>and I needed a noun. I knew some stickler out there would give me grief over my mistake so\u00a0Szpieg<\/em> it is!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After my Grandma Went to Altamont\u00a0illustrations that I produced in Affinity Designer, I was looking for a new subject matter to put the program and myself to the test. 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