{"id":42704,"date":"2024-03-19T07:23:11","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T11:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=42704"},"modified":"2024-03-19T07:23:11","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T11:23:11","slug":"tuesday-digital-doodle-automaton-powers-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2024\/03\/19\/tuesday-digital-doodle-automaton-powers-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Digital Doodle \u2022 Automaton Powers On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"silver robot-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/53583501332\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53583501332_89caaa6e6f_c.jpg?resize=640%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"silver robot-3\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>This is another vector doodle I did in <em>Affinity Designer<\/em>. In preparation for the occasional science fiction book cover I illustrate, I will play with metallic tones and mechanical shapes. I am figuring out how I may approach that starship or robotic marauder that may feature in a future novel, novella or short story. That is how this automaton above came about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is another vector doodle I did in Affinity Designer. In preparation for the occasional science fiction book cover I illustrate, I will play with metallic tones and mechanical shapes. I am figuring out how I may approach that starship &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2024\/03\/19\/tuesday-digital-doodle-automaton-powers-on\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42714,"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":[4953,7,49,26,5790],"tags":[3465,17,27,5815,3661,5,5539,1696,5814,178,195,1034,5795],"class_list":["post-42704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-doodle-tuesday","category-illustration","category-it-came-from-the-sketchbook","category-stuff-joe-likes","category-vector-illustration","tag-affinity-designer","tag-cartoon","tag-digital-illustration","tag-drafting","tag-illustration","tag-joe-williams","tag-mechanical","tag-metal","tag-metallic","tag-robot","tag-science-fiction","tag-vector","tag-vector-art"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Automaton.jpg?fit=800%2C800&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-b6M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21200,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2016\/10\/18\/mechanical-menace-in-affinity-designer\/","url_meta":{"origin":42704,"position":0},"title":"Mechanical Menace in Affinity Designer","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"October 18, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's another doodle similar to The Count which I cooked up over the course of a couple of early mornings using the vector art program extraordinaire Affinity Designer. 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