{"id":44976,"date":"2025-04-23T07:02:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T11:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=44976"},"modified":"2025-04-23T07:02:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T11:02:32","slug":"the-diplomat-from-grorfleplotz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2025\/04\/23\/the-diplomat-from-grorfleplotz\/","title":{"rendered":"The Diplomat from Grorfleplotz"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nOnce again I am ricocheting back and forth between analog and digital illustration. Today I am back in the digital domain with my latest Halloween Head<\/em> which I call The Diplomat from Grorfleplotz<\/em>. I’m not sure what the specific honorific would be for this diplomat from the far distant planet of Grofleplotz<\/em>, but once the universal interpreter helmet it is wearing is properly calibrated, I’m sure we will get that sorted out. Hopefully, they’re coming in peace.<\/p>\n

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I illustrated this Halloween Head<\/em><\/a> in the superlative vector art program Affinity Designer<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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The pixel and wireframe vector view of my latest Halloween Head.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Here’s another variation of The Phantom of the Opera<\/em> also done in Affinity Designer<\/em> that I forgot to put in last week’s post. I think I could fiddle with these things until doomsday, but I promise this is it!<\/p>\n

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Once again I am ricocheting back and forth between analog and digital illustration. Today I am back in the digital domain with my latest Halloween Head which I call The Diplomat from Grorfleplotz. 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