{"id":46763,"date":"2025-12-31T14:02:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T19:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=46763"},"modified":"2025-12-31T14:02:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T19:02:26","slug":"the-last-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2025\/12\/31\/the-last-of-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I figured I would wind up the year with another drawing of the Teenage Beast<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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I’ve been a little lax lately with the drawing as I’ve allowed myself to become sidetracked by my other obsession which is computers. Once I claw my way out of this particular digital rabbit hole, I resolve to dedicate myself to my analog drawing board!<\/p>\n

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Punk Club Chaos drawn with pencil, pen and ink in Pen + Gear Sketch Diary<\/p><\/div>\n

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Smoking Punk drawn in pencil, pen and ink in 6″ x 9″ Pen+Gear Sketchbook<\/p><\/div>\n

HAPPY NEW YEAR!<\/span><\/h1>\n

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I figured I would wind up the year with another drawing of the Teenage Beast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":46761,"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":[7,49,16],"tags":[158,8,312,76,3661,5,23,2143,3663,25,5937,480,3660],"class_list":["post-46763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-illustration","category-it-came-from-the-sketchbook","category-sketch","tag-analog","tag-cartoons","tag-comic","tag-horror","tag-illustration","tag-joe-williams","tag-monster","tag-punk","tag-sketch","tag-sketchbook","tag-teenage-beast","tag-usa","tag-willceau"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/last-of-2025-det.jpg?fit=640%2C300&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-caf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":44965,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2025\/04\/22\/teenage-beast-coming-through\/","url_meta":{"origin":46763,"position":0},"title":"Teenage Beast \u2022 Coming Through!","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"April 22, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"I continue to carve out the Teenage Beast story in my sketchbooks. 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