{"id":42213,"date":"2024-01-01T10:28:52","date_gmt":"2024-01-01T15:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=42213"},"modified":"2024-01-01T10:28:52","modified_gmt":"2024-01-01T15:28:52","slug":"turning-the-page-on-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2024\/01\/01\/turning-the-page-on-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning the Page on 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Happy New Year! <\/em><\/p>\n

I finished 2023 sitting on the couch with a cat and a spouse scribbling away in small, cheap sketchbooks, and I have resolved to do the same thing in 2024!<\/p>\n

I filled the FUXI sketchbook<\/a> which is nearly spent with a lot of aimless doodles and notes, but I was also using it to work out the details of an upcoming science fiction book cover. The book by J.L. Curtis<\/em> is in the editing process and will be appearing shortly on the virtual shelves of your favorite eBook seller so stay tuned!<\/em><\/p>\n

\"ICE <\/a>
ICE sketch <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Spacesuit\" <\/a>
Spacesuit <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Sound <\/a>
Sound Effect <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"space <\/a>
space marines <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Ice <\/a>
Ice Sketch <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Happy <\/a>
Happy New Year! <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Color <\/a>
Color pencil sketch <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n

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Happy New Year! I finished 2023 sitting on the couch with a cat and a spouse scribbling away in small, cheap sketchbooks, and I have resolved to do the same thing in 2024!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[49,16],"tags":[17,8,3661,5,195,3663,25,915,5777],"class_list":["post-42213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-it-came-from-the-sketchbook","category-sketch","tag-cartoon","tag-cartoons","tag-illustration","tag-joe-williams","tag-science-fiction","tag-sketch","tag-sketchbook","tag-space","tag-spaceman"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/old-and-new.jpg?fit=550%2C650&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-aYR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11419,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2013\/01\/21\/altered-states\/","url_meta":{"origin":42213,"position":0},"title":"Altered States","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"January 21, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"This was a drawing I did back in the late 1980s in the cursed Sketchbook from Hell. 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