{"id":25954,"date":"2019-10-24T11:30:32","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T15:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=25954"},"modified":"2019-10-24T18:49:12","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T22:49:12","slug":"the-vector-chainsaw-massacre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2019\/10\/24\/the-vector-chainsaw-massacre\/","title":{"rendered":"The Vector Chainsaw Massacre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"The Vector Chainsaw Massacre\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/48952688796\/in\/dateposted\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48952688796_3045aea615_z.jpg?resize=640%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"The Vector Chainsaw Massacre\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>Here is another <em>Halloween Head<\/em> I illustrated in the marvelous vector design application called <em><a href=\"https:\/\/affinity.serif.com\/en-gb\/designer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Affinity Designer<\/a>.<\/em> I started this yesterday morning with a vague polygon shape for a face and a cog shape for hair. I wasn&#8217;t sure if it was going to go anywhere, but I kept on fiddling with colors and shapes until it was time to go to work. In work I played with it here and there during down-time on a well-worn 2008 Macbook that I keep next to my great big work iMac. I continued on it at home while trying to watch the original <em>Texas Chainsaw Massacre<\/em> on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/tubitv.com\/movies\/499404\/the_texas_chain_saw_massacre?tracked=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tubi TV<\/a><\/em>, which is a tough movie to have playing in the background while trying to concentrate on an illustration. I switched to another show &#8212; I don&#8217;t remember what &#8212; and called it a night when I realized it was later than I thought. I attacked it anew in the morning and finished it up before work.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_25953\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"640\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Massacre-working.jpg?ssl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"25953\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2019\/10\/24\/the-vector-chainsaw-massacre\/massacre-working\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Massacre-working.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=\"Massacre-working\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Massacre-working.jpg?fit=640%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Massacre-working.jpg?resize=640%2C400&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-25953\" alt=\"Leatherface in Affinity Designer\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Massacre-working.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Massacre-working.jpg?resize=300%2C188&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Massacre-working.jpg?resize=768%2C480&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a> The Affinity Designer application window on a 13&#8243; Macbook<\/figure>\n<p>This wasn&#8217;t my first attempt at illustrating everybody&#8217;s favorite grave robbing, chainsaw wielding madman from the great State of Texas. I had tried and given up a number of times before. It wasn&#8217;t until I decided to combine comedy and tragedy into this guy that it started to work. Old <em>Leatherface <\/em>seems to be a jolly fellow in the movie. It looked like he enjoyed his work. I figured his victim and face donor would not have seen the fun in it and would have worn a dour if appropriate facial expression.<\/p>\n<p>I hope I&#8217;ve succeeded. Comments are welcome below.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is another Halloween Head I illustrated in the marvelous vector design application called Affinity Designer. I started this yesterday morning with a vague polygon shape for a face and a cog shape for hair. I wasn&#8217;t sure if it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2019\/10\/24\/the-vector-chainsaw-massacre\/\">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":[82,7,700,26,318,3456],"tags":[3981,3465,3668,3989,76,3661,5,23,4793,1034],"class_list":["post-25954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween","category-illustration","category-pixels-versus-pigment","category-stuff-joe-likes","category-technique","category-weird-world-of-the-roku","tag-affinitydesigner","tag-affinity-designer","tag-halloween","tag-halloween-head","tag-horror","tag-illustration","tag-joe-williams","tag-monster","tag-the-texas-chainsaw-massacre","tag-vector"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-6KC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25911,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2019\/10\/16\/the-ghost\/","url_meta":{"origin":25954,"position":0},"title":"The Ghost","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"October 16, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"This is another in a Halloween themed series of illustrations I put together in the superlative vector art program known as Affinity Designer. 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