{"id":24089,"date":"2018-07-26T05:43:21","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T09:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=24089"},"modified":"2018-07-26T05:43:21","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T09:43:21","slug":"the-concert-stud-variations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2018\/07\/26\/the-concert-stud-variations\/","title":{"rendered":"The Concert Stud Variations"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"StudlyWhen I was assembling the\u00a0various vector pieces of my Grandma Went to Altamont<\/em><\/a> illustration in Affinity Designer<\/em>, I was figuring out what my characters looked like as I went along. I had a vague image in my head of what I wanted, but that evolved as I fiddled with shapes that I either stuck with or, in most cases, vetoed. There was a couple of variations on the concert stud character also known as Mighty Joe Karate <\/em>that I thought I would share.
\n\"Mighty<\/a>I really liked this white guy Afro<\/em> and was going to go with it, but the dude’s hairdo covered his girlfriend’s boobs thus spoiling the cartoon’s intent. It also made the guy look less like a biker and more like a college radical circa 1969.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I was assembling the\u00a0various vector pieces of my Grandma Went to Altamont illustration in Affinity Designer, I was figuring out what my characters looked like as I went along. I had a vague image in my head of what … 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],"tags":[3981,110,3465,4430,4426,4425,17,8,27,4432,435,3661,5,4424,4431,480,1034,3660],"class_list":["post-24089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illustration","category-pixels-versus-pigment","tag-affinitydesigner","tag-1960s","tag-affinity-designer","tag-altamont","tag-biker-gang","tag-bikers","tag-cartoon","tag-cartoons","tag-digital-illustration","tag-flasher","tag-hippies","tag-illustration","tag-joe-williams","tag-motorcycle-gang","tag-rock-concert","tag-usa","tag-vector","tag-willceau"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-6gx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23923,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2018\/06\/28\/grandma-went-to-altamont\/","url_meta":{"origin":24089,"position":0},"title":"Grandma went to Altamont","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"June 28, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"This cartoon is an effort to see what I could do with Affinity Designer and as a reaction to cliches that people, particularly lazy writers, hold near and dear. 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Today I offer some images that I probably doodled in the margins of notebooks when I should have been paying attention in class. 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