{"id":91,"date":"2009-08-04T08:19:05","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T13:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=91"},"modified":"2023-09-07T10:38:50","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T14:38:50","slug":"sweaty-eddie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2009\/08\/04\/sweaty-eddie\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweaty Eddie"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’ve been doing variations on this same panicked\/agitated\/junkie-in-need-of-a-fix guy for years. I did a version of him as a first assignment in a Sophomore illustration class. \u00c2\u00a0I did a digital version on a Commodore 64<\/a> using a Wacom-like tablet called the Animation Station back in the early ’80s which I printed out on a Panasonic Dot Matrix printer and sent it in to the Uncle Floyd<\/a> Show. This version appeared last year on postcards<\/a> for a propane company.<\/p>\n

This version was done in Faber-Castell brush marker in a sketchbook; scanned into Photoshop: placed and colored in InDesign and printed in Black and a Pantone 109 on a Heidelburg Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been doing variations on this same panicked\/agitated\/junkie-in-need-of-a-fix guy for years. I did a version of him as a first assignment in a Sophomore illustration class. \u00c2\u00a0I did a digital version on a Commodore 64 using a Wacom-like tablet called … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,16],"tags":[3661,5,66],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illustration","category-sketch","tag-illustration","tag-joe-williams","tag-photoshop"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-1t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23659,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2018\/05\/17\/the-atomic-warrior-the-vector-version\/","url_meta":{"origin":91,"position":0},"title":"The Atomic Warrior – The Vector Version","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"May 17, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Here is a version of my Atomic Warrior character that I produced in Affinity Designer. 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