{"id":42370,"date":"2024-01-21T11:32:57","date_gmt":"2024-01-21T16:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=42370"},"modified":"2024-01-21T11:38:14","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T16:38:14","slug":"school-days-the-cool-substitute-teacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2024\/01\/21\/school-days-the-cool-substitute-teacher\/","title":{"rendered":"School Days &#8211; The Cool Substitute Teacher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"42375\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2024\/01\/21\/school-days-the-cool-substitute-teacher\/cool-substitute-teacher-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/cool-substitute-teacher-web.jpg?fit=640%2C989&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,989\" 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;cool substitute teacher&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"cool substitute teacher\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/cool-substitute-teacher-web.jpg?fit=640%2C989&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-42375\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/cool-substitute-teacher-web.jpg?resize=500%2C772&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"772\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/cool-substitute-teacher-web.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/cool-substitute-teacher-web.jpg?resize=194%2C300&amp;ssl=1 194w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>The Cool Substitute Teacher circa 1974<\/em> is an illustration that fell together as I was playing with shapes in the superlative vector art program <em>Affinity Designer<\/em>. I was hoping to come up with another monster for my collection of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/albums\/72157711550014901\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Halloween Heads<\/a>, but instead I seem to be stuck in grades K through eight when I was either counting the days until vacation or praying for snow days. This chap sprang forth from my laptop during a snow day which <em>I did not pray for.<\/em> As the shapes and colors fell together, I thought of young, substitute teachers back in the day who had probably recently watched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0071358\/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_3_nm_5_q_conrack\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Conrack<\/em><\/a> and thought it would be cool <em>&#8220;&#8230;to, like, rap with the kids while earning some bread.&#8221; <\/em>The kids doubtlessly liked <em>Mister So-and-So<\/em> who more than likely had an unpronounceable name so he insisted on being called by his first name. He didn&#8217;t stick to the lesson plan and smoked half a pack of Luckies during recess. Needless to say, he was not invited back to substitute, and like <em>the Lone Ranger<\/em>, we wondered if we would ever see him again. We missed <em>Mister So-and-So<\/em> who didn&#8217;t make us do anything. He didn&#8217;t judge. He didn&#8217;t make us read. He didn&#8217;t do anything beyond taking attendance.<\/p>\n<p><em>Only a hundred sixty-seven days to go until summer vacation.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cool Substitute Teacher circa 1974 is an illustration that fell together as I was playing with shapes in the superlative vector art program Affinity Designer. I was hoping to come up with another monster for my collection of Halloween &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2024\/01\/21\/school-days-the-cool-substitute-teacher\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42373,"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":[7,4,5790],"tags":[233,331,3465,17,27,43,3661,5,727,5791,5792,480,1034],"class_list":["post-42370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-illustration","category-news","category-vector-illustration","tag-1970s","tag-331","tag-affinity-designer","tag-cartoon","tag-digital-illustration","tag-humor","tag-illustration","tag-joe-williams","tag-school","tag-school-days","tag-substitute","tag-usa","tag-vector"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/cool-substitute-teacher-det.jpg?fit=1000%2C718&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-b1o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":42355,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2024\/01\/24\/school-days-the-angry-librarian\/","url_meta":{"origin":42370,"position":0},"title":"School Days &#8211; The Angry Librarian","author":"Joe","date":"January 24, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"The angry librarian insisted on absolute, tomb-like silence as if Karl Wallenda was traversing a tightrope above a Bengal tiger trap in the middle of the library and absolute concentration was vital to the aerialist's survival.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Illustration&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Illustration","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/illustration\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/shadow-angry-librarian.jpg?fit=800%2C517&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/shadow-angry-librarian.jpg?fit=800%2C517&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/shadow-angry-librarian.jpg?fit=800%2C517&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/shadow-angry-librarian.jpg?fit=800%2C517&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":21182,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2016\/10\/14\/i-count-on-affinity-designer\/","url_meta":{"origin":42370,"position":1},"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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A couple of mornings before sunrise fiddling with shapes\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Halloween&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Halloween","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/halloween\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"The Count in Affinity Designer","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/7461\/30022386700_6c104c7673_z.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/7461\/30022386700_6c104c7673_z.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/7461\/30022386700_6c104c7673_z.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":42569,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2024\/02\/22\/sci-fi-textures\/","url_meta":{"origin":42370,"position":2},"title":"Sci Fi Textures","author":"Joe","date":"February 22, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"When the blank page or screen is staring at me waiting for me to fill it with something illustrative and I don't really have a solid idea, I doodle digital science fiction textures. 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