Cartoon character mascot & logo design illustration, drawing & sketch blog with tips, tutorials & artist updates: Coghill Cartooning

UStream – now embedded on the blog

Published on February 12, 2010 in news. 0 Comments Tags: drawing, sketch, sketching, tutorial, Ustream, vector, video.

If you head over to the new Ustream page I set up, you can now access my live video drawing, sketching & vector sessions right from the blog! When there’s no live broadcast you’ll get access to the archive of recorded videos. Even cooler, the chat is also embedded.

Stay tuned as I plan to ramp up the live screencasts in the coming weeks.

Blue Goon

Published on February 11, 2010 in cartooning. 2 Comments Tags: Adobe, Adobe Photoshop, art, cartoon, cartooning, character, CS4, drawing, Illustration, Photoshop, sketch, software, Wacom.

Just quick post to show the “blue goon” drawing I did for tonight’s artcast.

Unfortunately I forgot to hit “Record” for the show, so it was a live event only. Next time!

The “blue goon” character was created in Adobe Photoshop CS4 with a Wacom Intuos4 graphics tablet and some store-brand Sudafed to ease my cold & sinus symptoms.

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Gar Trader – Cigar-Chompin’ Tough Guy Cartoon Character

Published on February 10, 2010 in cartooning. 0 Comments Tags: art, cartoon, character, cigar, design, guy, Illustration, logo, man, mascot, smoking.

I recently created this cool cigar-smoking thug character & logo for the cigar aficionado store and message board website Gar Trader. The above artwork and design is actually an alternate version I created for the client, the final was required to be much, much smaller to fit into his website, but he also wanted to be able to offer t-shirts and other merchandise so I created this version (which is my personal fave).

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Live ArtCast this Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010

Published on February 8, 2010 in news. 0 Comments Tags: art, artcast, ArtCast Network, cartooning, drawing, sketching, video game.

I’ll be doing a live drawing “ArtCast” video session this Wednesday February 10th, 2010 at 9 PM EST as part of the ArtCast Network’s weekly featured artcast series.

Stop by and see/hear me draw live via your web browser. There’s also an integrated chat box so I can read your comments and interact. It’s usually a lot of fun, and if you’ve been to one of my live sessions before you know there will be lots of great software tips for drawing digitally.

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Daily Flock – Cartoon Bird Character Mascot & Logo

Published on February 3, 2010 in cartooning. 0 Comments Tags: art, aviator, bird, cartoon, character, design, Illustration, logo, mascot.

I created this cartoon aviator bird mascot character and the website banner seen above for a recent client. The name of the company & website was “Daily Flock” so we knew the mascot was going to be bird-related. The website offers local New York City bargains, so the idea was that the website scoured the city for shopping deals for you. I suggested an aviator bird, and the client loved the idea.