{"id":43056,"date":"2024-04-02T07:50:19","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T11:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=43056"},"modified":"2024-04-02T07:50:19","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T11:50:19","slug":"tuesday-digital-doodle-comin-at-ya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2024\/04\/02\/tuesday-digital-doodle-comin-at-ya\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Digital Doodle \u2022 Comin’ At YA!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"
\nToday’s digital doodle was a happy accident I made while playing with Affinity Designer’s<\/em> step-and-repeat feature. I was playing around with a logo I worked up a while back for J.L. Curtis’s<\/em><\/a> series of science fiction books and seeing how duplicating, moving and slightly reducing the type treatment would look. It wound up giving me an interesting 3-dimensional effect that I sort of like.<\/p>\n

I grabbed a few elements I produced for some of Jim’s various books and whipped them together to see if the logo would work. That’s the nice thing about working digitally in that as I go along, I build up a library of assets that I can use and reuse. The effect works for me although I may use it for something else in order to keep a visual continuity among the Rimworld<\/em> series of books. The regular Rimworld<\/em> logo works, and you don’t mess with success!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

\n

The Affinity<\/em> suite was recently purchased by Canva<\/em> which does not bode well. I am going to hold off weighing in on this until it develops further. There have been announcements, controversy and a bit of backpedaling, but I won’t say anything until I know more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s digital doodle was a happy accident I made while playing with Affinity Designer’s step-and-repeat feature. I was playing around with a logo I worked up a while back for J.L. Curtis’s series of science fiction books and seeing how … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43057,"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":[3949,4953,7,49,5790],"tags":[3465,5806,27,3661,5,195,3663,480],"class_list":["post-43056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-design","category-doodle-tuesday","category-illustration","category-it-came-from-the-sketchbook","category-vector-illustration","tag-affinity-designer","tag-digital-doodle","tag-digital-illustration","tag-illustration","tag-joe-williams","tag-science-fiction","tag-sketch","tag-usa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Rimworld-zoom-logo.jpg?fit=1000%2C647&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-bcs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":42704,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2024\/03\/19\/tuesday-digital-doodle-automaton-powers-on\/","url_meta":{"origin":43056,"position":0},"title":"Tuesday Digital Doodle \u2022 Automaton Powers On","author":"Joe","date":"March 19, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"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 or robotic marauder that may feature in a future novel,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Doodle Tuesday"","block_context":{"text":"Doodle Tuesday","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/it-came-from-the-sketchbook\/doodle-tuesday\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Automaton.jpg?fit=800%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Automaton.jpg?fit=800%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Automaton.jpg?fit=800%2C800&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Automaton.jpg?fit=800%2C800&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":42603,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2024\/02\/27\/tuesday-digital-doodle-type-treatments\/","url_meta":{"origin":43056,"position":1},"title":"Tuesday Digital Doodle \u2022 Type Treatments","author":"Joe","date":"February 27, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"I was searching around a few older hard drives when I found this digital doodle I did in Affinity Designer. In the same way that I scribble away in sketchbooks, I will play around with vector shapes, colors and textures on the computer. If I like the results, I will\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Doodle Tuesday"","block_context":{"text":"Doodle Tuesday","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/it-came-from-the-sketchbook\/doodle-tuesday\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Lava-texture.jpg?fit=1000%2C545&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Lava-texture.jpg?fit=1000%2C545&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Lava-texture.jpg?fit=1000%2C545&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Lava-texture.jpg?fit=1000%2C545&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":42659,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2024\/03\/12\/tuesday-digital-doodle-gritty-city\/","url_meta":{"origin":43056,"position":2},"title":"Tuesday Digital Doodle \u2022 Gritty City","author":"Joe","date":"March 12, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Back in the '80s, there were a number of guys in art school playing with grayscale textures created by flicking a toothbrush loaded with ink onto a piece of bristol or illustration board. They would carefully cut frisket masks like a stencil and painstakingly flick an inky toothbrush at the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Doodle Tuesday"","block_context":{"text":"Doodle Tuesday","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/it-came-from-the-sketchbook\/doodle-tuesday\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/texture-city.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\/03\/texture-city.jpg?fit=800%2C517&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/texture-city.jpg?fit=800%2C517&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/texture-city.jpg?fit=800%2C517&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":42625,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2024\/03\/05\/tuesday-digital-doodle-type-of-the-living-dead\/","url_meta":{"origin":43056,"position":3},"title":"Tuesday Digital Doodle \u2022 Type of the Living Dead","author":"Joe","date":"March 5, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Affinity recently updated their whole suite of desktop publishing applications to version 2.4 so I've been trying to catch up with some of the new features of these programs. I've been mostly playing with Affinity Designer which is their vector art program. I have used a number of other vector\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Doodle Tuesday"","block_context":{"text":"Doodle Tuesday","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/it-came-from-the-sketchbook\/doodle-tuesday\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/zombie-type-black-background.jpg?fit=1000%2C360&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/zombie-type-black-background.jpg?fit=1000%2C360&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/zombie-type-black-background.jpg?fit=1000%2C360&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/zombie-type-black-background.jpg?fit=1000%2C360&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":42569,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2024\/02\/22\/sci-fi-textures\/","url_meta":{"origin":43056,"position":4},"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. I play around with colors and shapes until I cobble something together that piques my interest. If\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Illustration"","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\/02\/sci-fi-background-02-21-2024.jpg?fit=700%2C452&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/sci-fi-background-02-21-2024.jpg?fit=700%2C452&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/sci-fi-background-02-21-2024.jpg?fit=700%2C452&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/sci-fi-background-02-21-2024.jpg?fit=700%2C452&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":21831,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2017\/03\/11\/which-one-is-pink\/","url_meta":{"origin":43056,"position":5},"title":"Which One is Pink?","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"March 11, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"This post is sort of an addendum to my earlier post. It's the digital cherry on my analog sundae. This morning I was playing with a hand-drawn doodle featured in Rumble in the Record Store. I always meant to have a logo on my mutant monster's tee-shirt, but I wasn't\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "It Came From the Sketchbook"","block_context":{"text":"It Came From the Sketchbook","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/it-came-from-the-sketchbook\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Affinity-Designer-screenshot-PZ.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Affinity-Designer-screenshot-PZ.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Affinity-Designer-screenshot-PZ.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}