{"id":588,"date":"2009-10-20T08:14:41","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T13:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=588"},"modified":"2019-11-25T16:04:32","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T21:04:32","slug":"made-for-each-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2009\/10\/20\/made-for-each-other\/","title":{"rendered":"Made for Each Other"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rather than clutter our house with a bunch of junk, Tina and I make cards for each other for birthdays, anniversaries, etc. This is the one I gave to her last night for our 13th wedding anniversary. Being that it’s 13 and October, I wanted to go with a Halloween theme. I was going to go with something with hockey masks, but I abandoned it for being sort of lame and went with classic horror instead.<\/p>\n

I digitally inked a sketchbook drawing and was experimenting with Painter for the colors. I may go back and do a more straight-forward coloring on this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rather than clutter our house with a bunch of junk, Tina and I make cards for each other for birthdays, anniversaries, etc. This is the one I gave to her last night for our 13th wedding anniversary. 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