{"id":45005,"date":"2025-04-30T00:11:46","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T04:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=45005"},"modified":"2025-04-30T13:53:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T17:53:18","slug":"halloween-heads-the-mummy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2025\/04\/30\/halloween-heads-the-mummy\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween Heads \u2022 The Mummy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"45012\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2025\/04\/30\/halloween-heads-the-mummy\/rats-trim-the-mummy-scanned-mesh-3-work-imac-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/The-Mummy-900x900-1-1.jpg?fit=900%2C900&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"900,900\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Rats Trim The Mummy-scanned mesh-3-work imac&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Rats Trim The Mummy-scanned mesh-3-work imac\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Mummy vector illustration created in Affinity Designer&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/The-Mummy-900x900-1-1.jpg?fit=640%2C640&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45012\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/The-Mummy-900x900-1-1.jpg?resize=640%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/The-Mummy-900x900-1-1.jpg?w=900&amp;ssl=1 900w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/The-Mummy-900x900-1-1.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/The-Mummy-900x900-1-1.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/The-Mummy-900x900-1-1.jpg?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>I know Halloween is 184 days away, but being a dyed-in-the-wool horror movie fan, I always seem to be in the Halloween Spirit!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"I Was a Vector Frankenstein\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/30490631525\/in\/album-72157711550014901\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/5498\/30490631525_1d0fa0f12d_m.jpg?resize=206%2C191&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"I Was a Vector Frankenstein\" width=\"206\" height=\"191\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>I started doing my series of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/albums\/72157711550014901\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>Halloween Head <\/i><\/a>vector illustrations almost 20 years ago with a simplified Frankenstein Monster done in <em>Adobe Illustrator. <\/em>I really started to chase down my vectorized villains and other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/albums\/72157691131568290\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">digital designs<\/a> with the release of the superlative <em>Affinity Designer<\/em> a little over ten years ago. Some of these monsters fall together fairly quickly while others are a bit of a struggle. Such is the case with <em>The Mummy<\/em> of which I have had a number of false starts. My gallery of rogues demanded an ancient Egyptian still alive over the millennia, and I think I may have finally got him.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Most of this illustration has been cobbled together in <em>Affinity Designer<\/em> with a bit of my favorite photo editor <em>Affinity Photo <\/em>for elements in the background.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_45007\" style=\"width: 910px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45007\" data-attachment-id=\"45007\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2025\/04\/30\/halloween-heads-the-mummy\/screenshot-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/The-Mummy-split.jpg?fit=900%2C506&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"900,506\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Screenshot&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Screenshot&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Screenshot\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Screenshot&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/The-Mummy-split.jpg?fit=640%2C360&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-45007\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/The-Mummy-split.jpg?resize=640%2C360&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/The-Mummy-split.jpg?w=900&amp;ssl=1 900w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/The-Mummy-split.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/The-Mummy-split.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-45007\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Split screen view showing a pixel and x-ray view of this vector illustration.<\/p><\/div>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">ADDENDUM<\/span><\/h1>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I guess I just can&#8217;t leave well enough alone. Below is a darker variation on today&#8217;s Mummy illustration. Generally, I work on these things on a small laptop, but when I start to stare at it on a 27-inch screen, I see about a million things I want to change.<\/p>\n<p>So here is the dark variation. The guy is in an underground tomb after all!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Halloween Head \u2022 The Mummy - Dark Variation\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/54487452150\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54487452150_5989372789_c.jpg?resize=640%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Halloween Head \u2022 The Mummy - Dark Variation\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> Now I have to figure out what monster is next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know Halloween is 184 days away, but being a dyed-in-the-wool horror movie fan, I always seem to be in the Halloween Spirit! I started doing my series of Halloween Head vector illustrations almost 20 years ago with a simplified &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2025\/04\/30\/halloween-heads-the-mummy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":45012,"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":[82,7,5790],"tags":[17,27,5952,3668,76,5,5951,5949,3637,5950,5953,3660],"class_list":["post-45005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-halloween","category-illustration","category-vector-illustration","tag-cartoon","tag-digital-illustration","tag-egypt","tag-halloween","tag-horror","tag-joe-williams","tag-karloff","tag-mummy","tag-spooky","tag-the-mummy","tag-undead","tag-willceau"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-bHT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":44976,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2025\/04\/23\/the-diplomat-from-grorfleplotz\/","url_meta":{"origin":45005,"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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I had designed the card with a Halloween notion in mind, and it was a small matter to swap out the 23 with a Jack O' Lantern face. I also swapped out the background for what I\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Halloween&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Halloween","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/halloween\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/sleepy-hollow-split-view.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/sleepy-hollow-split-view.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/sleepy-hollow-split-view.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/sleepy-hollow-split-view.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":21259,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2016\/10\/28\/affinity-designer-after-midnight\/","url_meta":{"origin":45005,"position":3},"title":"Affinity Designer After Midnight","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"October 28, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's another Halloween Horror Head I created in Affinity Designer while I waited for my son's early morning bus. I was trying to do something different, but I wound up with another vampire. This one is based on Lon Chaney's iconic monster. from the silent classic London After Midnight.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Halloween&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Halloween","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/halloween\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"London after Midnight","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c3.staticflickr.com\/6\/5593\/29978168554_051b0c6de3.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":44887,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2025\/04\/10\/phantom-of-the-opera\/","url_meta":{"origin":45005,"position":4},"title":"Phantom of the Opera","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"April 10, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Although Halloween is 204 days away, I have been working on a new Halloween Head in the superlative vector art program Affinity Designer! 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