{"id":25979,"date":"2019-10-29T07:44:52","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T11:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=25979"},"modified":"2019-10-29T11:26:59","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T15:26:59","slug":"we-are-not-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2019\/10\/29\/we-are-not-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"We Are NOT Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"We Are NOT Alone\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/48979733866\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48979733866_80fe5c3f8f_z.jpg?resize=640%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"We Are NOT Alone\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>My latest Halloween Head is a fellow with one hell of a commute. This <em>visitor from another world<\/em> is a vector illustration I whipped together in <em>Affinity Designer.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/alien-process.jpg?ssl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"25980\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2019\/10\/29\/we-are-not-alone\/alien-process\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/alien-process.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=\"alien-process\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/alien-process.jpg?fit=640%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-25980\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/alien-process.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\/alien-process.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/alien-process.jpg?resize=300%2C188&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/alien-process.jpg?resize=768%2C480&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My latest Halloween Head is a fellow with one hell of a commute. This visitor from another world is a vector illustration I whipped together in Affinity Designer.<\/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],"tags":[3465,918,3199,3989,3661,5,4801,1034],"class_list":["post-25979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween","category-illustration","category-pixels-versus-pigment","category-stuff-joe-likes","category-technique","tag-affinity-designer","tag-alien","tag-creature","tag-halloween-head","tag-illustration","tag-joe-williams","tag-martian","tag-vector"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-6L1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25911,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2019\/10\/16\/the-ghost\/","url_meta":{"origin":25979,"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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Today I am back in the digital domain with my latest Halloween Head which I call The Diplomat from Grorfleplotz. 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Being that my son's school bus pickup time is just before dawn, I thought it appropriate to work on this icon of The Count! 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It was high time I gave half of this split personality my full attention! 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