{"id":42395,"date":"2024-01-30T07:59:36","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T12:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=42395"},"modified":"2024-01-30T11:38:22","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T16:38:22","slug":"the-green-ghoul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2024\/01\/30\/the-green-ghoul\/","title":{"rendered":"The Green Ghoul"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Recently I’ve been traipsing down memory lane revisiting the people and impressions I had of grade school<\/a> and junior high<\/a> in the form of cartoons. Today I offer some images that I probably doodled in the margins of notebooks when I should have been paying attention in class.<\/p>\n

Once again, I am producing these illustrations in my favorite vector art program Affinity Designer<\/em>. I am approaching these cartoons in the same way I doodle in my little sketchbooks. I start with a blank page and I go where my pencils or, in this case, where the vector shapes and colors take me. \"\"<\/p>\n

I also worked on some variations of The Green Ghoul. I have a feeling I’m not done with this guy. This skull may be adapted into other creatures.<\/p>\n

\"The-SCARLET-SKULL\" <\/a> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Atomic-Warrior-2024\" <\/a> <\/div> <\/div>
\"The-GREEN-GHOUL\" <\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently I’ve been traipsing down memory lane revisiting the people and impressions I had of grade school and junior high in the form of cartoons. Today I offer some images that I probably doodled in the margins of notebooks when … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42396,"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":[7,5790],"tags":[3465,17,9,27,76,3661,5,480,1034,5795],"class_list":["post-42395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-illustration","category-vector-illustration","tag-affinity-designer","tag-cartoon","tag-comics","tag-digital-illustration","tag-horror","tag-illustration","tag-joe-williams","tag-usa","tag-vector","tag-vector-art"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-b1N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":44976,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2025\/04\/23\/the-diplomat-from-grorfleplotz\/","url_meta":{"origin":42395,"position":0},"title":"The Diplomat from Grorfleplotz","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"April 23, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Once again I am ricocheting back and forth between analog and digital illustration. 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