{"id":45111,"date":"2025-05-14T12:02:35","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T16:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=45111"},"modified":"2025-05-14T12:04:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T16:04:20","slug":"digital-doodles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2025\/05\/14\/digital-doodles\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Doodles"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Of late the internet has proven to be fairly tedious so I fire up Affinity Designer<\/em> on my old laptop and fiddle around with shapes and colors. In the time between my first cup of coffee and when I have to run out the door to work, I have fun playing Spirograph<\/a> <\/em>or a very clean version of spin art<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Stepping and repeating shapes and applying various blending modes result in happy accidents. I stumble across things I find visually pleasing.<\/p>\n

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These designs are in a vector format so they don’t take up very much room on a hard drive. I stow them away to maybe use them later as a background.<\/p>\n

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I do have a project in mind for some of these designs, but it doesn’t matter whether I use these in a project or not. It beats wasting time on the same old websites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Of late the internet has proven to be fairly tedious so I fire up Affinity Designer on my old laptop and fiddle around with shapes and colors. 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