{"id":25941,"date":"2019-10-22T06:05:29","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T10:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=25941"},"modified":"2019-10-22T06:05:29","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T10:05:29","slug":"the-legend-of-sleepy-hollow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2019\/10\/22\/the-legend-of-sleepy-hollow\/","title":{"rendered":"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/48939274337\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48939274337_a15f2a1617_z.jpg?resize=640%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>This is a variation of my <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2019\/10\/19\/the-legend-of-the-23rd-anniversary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">23rd anniversary card<\/a> that I posted recently. I had designed the card with a Halloween notion in mind, and it was a small matter to swap out the 23 with a <em>Jack O&#8217; Lantern<\/em> face. I also swapped out the background for what I thought was a better idea.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I put this illustration as I have with the other monster heads in my favorite vector art program <em>Affinity Designer.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?attachment_id=25942\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"25942\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2019\/10\/22\/the-legend-of-sleepy-hollow\/sleepy-hollow-split-view\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/sleepy-hollow-split-view.jpg?fit=1000%2C625&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1000,625\" 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=\"sleepy-hollow-split-view\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/sleepy-hollow-split-view.jpg?fit=640%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-25942\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/sleepy-hollow-split-view.jpg?resize=640%2C400&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/sleepy-hollow-split-view.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/sleepy-hollow-split-view.jpg?resize=300%2C188&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/sleepy-hollow-split-view.jpg?resize=768%2C480&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a variation of my 23rd anniversary card that I posted recently. I had designed the card with a Halloween notion in mind, and it was a small matter to swap out the 23 with a Jack O&#8217; Lantern &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2019\/10\/22\/the-legend-of-sleepy-hollow\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[82,7,700,318],"tags":[3981,3465,884,3668,4790,76,3661,4789,1034],"class_list":["post-25941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween","category-illustration","category-pixels-versus-pigment","category-technique","tag-affinitydesigner","tag-affinity-designer","tag-design","tag-halloween","tag-headless-horseman","tag-horror","tag-illustration","tag-sleepy-hollow","tag-vector"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-6Kp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21182,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2016\/10\/14\/i-count-on-affinity-designer\/","url_meta":{"origin":25941,"position":0},"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. 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This year I decided to chase down a Halloween theme as I do with Tina's birthday cards. 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This iconic figure, shrouded in mystery and menace, deserves a fresh twist to haunt your imagination. 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