{"id":36628,"date":"2021-10-14T07:59:01","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T11:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=36628"},"modified":"2021-10-14T08:02:25","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T12:02:25","slug":"mister-hyde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2021\/10\/14\/mister-hyde\/","title":{"rendered":"Mister HYDE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Mister HYDE\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/51586832592\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51586832592_56e281128e_z.jpg?resize=640%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Mister HYDE\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>I was trying to come up with another idea for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/albums\/72157711550014901\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Halloween Head<\/em><\/a> when I realized I had never done <em>Dr Jekyll&#8217;s<\/em> monstrous alter-ego <em>Mr Hyde<\/em>. It was high time I gave half of this split personality my full attention!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2021\/10\/14\/mister-hyde\/mister-hyde\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36629\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"36629\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2021\/10\/14\/mister-hyde\/mister-hyde\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/HYDE-sketch.jpg?fit=640%2C640&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,640\" 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;Mister HYDE&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Mister HYDE\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/HYDE-sketch.jpg?fit=640%2C640&amp;ssl=1\" class=\" wp-image-36629 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/HYDE-sketch.jpg?resize=363%2C422&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"363\" height=\"422\" \/><\/a>I had worked this monster out a bit on a piece of scrap paper before cobbling together the shapes and colors that would complete this vector illustration.<\/p>\n<p>When I first got involved with digital illustration, I may have favored <em>CorelDraw<\/em> on my <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/11\/17\/computer-owned\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ancient PC<\/a> or worked this out in <em>Adobe Illustrator<\/em> back when they still <em>sold<\/em> the program in a <em>box!<\/em> I now use the superior <em>Affinity Designer<\/em> to do my vector work. All of the tools I need are at the tips of my fingers, and it just seems like a whole lot more fun using this program rather than the others. I don&#8217;t know what it is exactly, but I think the people at Affinity thought long and hard about the interface and made an art program that is actually fun to use.<\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks, Affinity!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2021\/10\/14\/mister-hyde\/hyde-split-screen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment noopener wp-att-36630\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"36630\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2021\/10\/14\/mister-hyde\/hyde-split-screen\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Hyde-split-screen.jpg?fit=900%2C562&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"900,562\" 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=\"Hyde-split-screen\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Hyde-split-screen.jpg?fit=640%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-36630 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Hyde-split-screen.jpg?resize=640%2C400&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Hyde-split-screen.jpg?w=900&amp;ssl=1 900w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Hyde-split-screen.jpg?resize=300%2C187&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Hyde-split-screen.jpg?resize=768%2C480&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was trying to come up with another idea for a Halloween Head when I realized I had never done Dr Jekyll&#8217;s monstrous alter-ego Mr Hyde. It was high time I gave half of this split personality my full attention!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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],"tags":[3465,17,4780,3989,3661,5,5171,23,5170,1034],"class_list":["post-36628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween","category-illustration","tag-affinity-designer","tag-cartoon","tag-famous-monsters","tag-halloween-head","tag-illustration","tag-joe-williams","tag-mister-hyde","tag-monster","tag-strange-case-of-dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde","tag-vector"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-9wM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25911,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2019\/10\/16\/the-ghost\/","url_meta":{"origin":36628,"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. See more of my vector illustrations HERE!","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Halloween&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Halloween","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/halloween\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"The Ghost","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48904620292_2c5a83866f_z.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48904620292_2c5a83866f_z.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48904620292_2c5a83866f_z.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":45005,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2025\/04\/30\/halloween-heads-the-mummy\/","url_meta":{"origin":36628,"position":1},"title":"Halloween Heads \u2022 The Mummy","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"April 30, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"I know Halloween is 184 days away, but being a dyed-in-the-wool horror movie fan, I always seem to be in the Halloween Spirit! 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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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I was trying to do something different, but I wound up with another vampire. This one is based on Lon Chaney's iconic monster. from the silent classic London After Midnight.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Halloween&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Halloween","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/halloween\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"London after Midnight","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c3.staticflickr.com\/6\/5593\/29978168554_051b0c6de3.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}