{"id":42716,"date":"2024-03-13T09:58:53","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T13:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=42716"},"modified":"2024-03-13T10:01:04","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T14:01:04","slug":"available-for-birthdays-and-bar-mitzvahs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2024\/03\/13\/available-for-birthdays-and-bar-mitzvahs-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Available for Birthdays and Bar Mitzvahs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Scary Clown Variation\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/53584013270\/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\/53584013270_30f1358190_c.jpg?resize=640%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Scary Clown Variation\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>This is a variation of the <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2019\/11\/04\/available-for-birthdays-and-bar-mitzvahs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">frightening clown<\/a> I produced in <em>Affinity Designer<\/em> back in 2019. I was on a streak back then making a number of vector <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/albums\/72157691131568290\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Halloween heads<\/em><\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/affinity.serif.com\/en-us\/designer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Serif&#8217;s<\/a> superlative software, and my basement dwelling <em>Bozo<\/em> was one of them. I was poking around one of the many hard drives I have cluttering the place and found this earlier version of the illustration. I&#8217;m not sure why I didn&#8217;t just stop here, but I pressed on and I was happy with the results I ultimately achieved. On second look, this wasn&#8217;t bad, so I blew the virtual dust from it and am putting it up here.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_42719\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42719\" data-attachment-id=\"42719\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2024\/03\/13\/available-for-birthdays-and-bar-mitzvahs-2\/arent-we-a-pair\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/arent-we-a-pair.jpg?fit=800%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"800,400\" 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=\"arent-we-a-pair\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/arent-we-a-pair.jpg?fit=640%2C320&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-42719 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/arent-we-a-pair.jpg?resize=640%2C320&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"vector clown variations\" width=\"640\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/arent-we-a-pair.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/arent-we-a-pair.jpg?resize=300%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/arent-we-a-pair.jpg?resize=768%2C384&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-42719\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Are we a pair?<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a variation of the frightening clown I produced in Affinity Designer back in 2019. I was on a streak back then making a number of vector Halloween heads in Serif&#8217;s superlative software, and my basement dwelling Bozo was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2024\/03\/13\/available-for-birthdays-and-bar-mitzvahs-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42719,"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":[7,5790],"tags":[981,3799,27,76,43,3661,5,2040,480,1034],"class_list":["post-42716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-illustration","category-vector-illustration","tag-clown","tag-creep","tag-digital-illustration","tag-horror","tag-humor","tag-illustration","tag-joe-williams","tag-scary","tag-usa","tag-vector"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/arent-we-a-pair.jpg?fit=800%2C400&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-b6Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26002,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2019\/11\/04\/available-for-birthdays-and-bar-mitzvahs\/","url_meta":{"origin":42716,"position":0},"title":"There Ought To Be Clowns","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"November 4, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"I was trying to squeak out this Halloween Head for October 31st, but it wasn't to be. 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