Dani loves to share her extensive illustration technique knowledge via live streaming videocasts on Ustream, and decided there needed to be a website that brought together all the talented atists out there who do live streaming webcasts on Ustream or other similar sites.

I have a Ustream cartooning & illustration channel, but I am just getting started. The ArtCast website has inspired me to do much more of this, so keep an eye out for future live video stream where you can watch me sketch & draw live in Adobe Photoshop, and work on cartoon-style vector art illustrations in Adobe Illustrator. And all videos will be recorded and saved to my Ustream channel for those of you who aren’t able to watch live.

The ArtCast Network is still in the ‘under construction’ phase right now, but head on over at the link above if you are an artist and want to participate.

ArtCast Network is a post from: Cartooning & Illustration Blog: Coghill Cartooning

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Just posted over at Design Interviews is an interview with yours truly. Jeff Andrews—the mastermind behind not only Design Interviews but also illustrator group sketch blog Sugar Frosted Goodness among others—was kind enough to ask me to answer some questions and provide some artwork to feature me as one of the artists on the site.

Head on over and read up!

Cartoonist/illustrator George Coghill interview at Design Inspiration.

George Coghill Interview at Design Inspiration is a post from: Cartooning & Illustration Blog: Coghill Cartooning

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It’s been a long time since I’ve updated my blog with recent work, I have been (gladly) super busy with client projects, deadlines and upcoming work that I need to make time for now. A lot of really great cartooning projects have been recently wrapped up, with lots more good stuff on the digital drawing board right now.

The image above is a quick teaser showcasing some of the recent work — both finished and in progress — including: a cartoon Marines character for a t-shirt design for a Young Marines troop, a cartoon monster character for a self-published children’s book project I was just awarded, a cartoon ogre mascot for a video game portal website, an “inventor Mom” character with her home made robot, a tough security guard/body guard mascot character for an online data storage company, a puppy dog mascot character, a surfer character for a gyro/souvlaki restaurant, a frog version of the Statue of Liberty for the Ohio Canal Corridor’s annual event t-shirt, more avatar portrait illustrations for the Cleveland, Ohio travel & visitors bureau Positively Cleveland, and a fish mascot character and logo for a niche fishing utility product.

Whew! And that’s just the most recent. There’s lots more on the plate right now that’s upcoming, including novelty product concept & turnaround art, cartoon-style footwear designs for toddler’s shoes, and a space-themed t-shirt design for an upcoming cake design competition.

I’l be posting in-depth posts on all of the above work once things settle back to a less hectic pace. For now, I just wanted to pop my head up from the desk and get a teaser of some of my recent artwork up here. Lots of good stuff coming soon!

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In anticipation of the new tagging structure I switched over to the Simple Tagging Plugin earlier, and an now using Simple Tags which is the 2.3 optimized version. Tags were the big thing I was concerned about in the 2.3 upgrade, but all worked fine.

Also some other weirdness of the Similar Posts plugin (related to technical/code details) resulted in my switching to using the related posts option in Simple Tags, although I prefer the look of Similar Posts and it seemed to do a better job. Also keeps the modifications to the K2 theme to a minimum.

Also switched over to the All In One SEO plugin, consolidating many other plugins doing similar functions. This adds all of those and more.

Modified the K2 theme so it is no longer adding the default WordPress description to the description meta-tag of every page. Meta-tag description plugins were creating duplicates, now the descriptions are page-specific as intended all along.

Also, this post should not appear in the RSS feed if the Feed Control plugin is working properly.

Save for my webhost blocking my IP address (all fixed now), everything went much smoother than anticipated, and future upgrades should be painless.

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Most notably, I now have my Flickr photos (drawings, sketches and vector illustration art, actually) automagically appearing in the RSS feed for this blog (via Feedburner). Also upgraded to the newest version of the K2 theme used as the basis for the blog design. Manually updated most of the plugins used on this blog as well, getting ready to upgrade to WordPress 2.3 as soon as I am comfortable doing so. Need to learn how the new tagging system works, and how things will translate from the Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin I have been using to date. Default thumbnail resizing in WordPress bumped up to 250 pixels since this is an image-intensive blog. Clicking on posts from the main page ‘continue reading…’ link now jump to the top of the post page via the Striptease Wordpress plugin.

If anyone notices anything kooky, unwelcome or unexpected going on, please let me know.

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