Tag Archive for 'cartoonist'

Private Piles – Soldier Dog Cartoon Character

Published on December 2, 2009 in cartooning. 3 Comments Tags: army, cartoon, cartoon character, cartoon character design, cartooning, cartoonist, dog, Illustration, logo, mascot, military, soldier.

This cartoon character design of a military/soldier dog was created for a dog waste cleanup company, Private Piles. A full logo was also created in addition to the cartoon dog character.

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Acorn Souvenirs

Published on November 25, 2009 in cartooning. 3 Comments Tags: Acorn, animal, cartoon character, cartoon character design, cartooning, cartoonist, Illustration, logo, mascot, squirrel.

Squirrel cartoon character character design and logo for novelty gift company Acorn Souvenirs.

The company sells gag gifts based on the government “ACORN” program. the concept behind the character and logo was to have the squirrel cartoon character trying to chew on the ACORN logo as if it were an actual acorn.

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George Coghill Interview at Design Inspiration

Published on September 4, 2009 in updates. 0 Comments Tags: artist, cartoonist, design inspiration, george coghill, illustrator, inspiration, interview.

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.

Adobe Illustrator Video Tip: Quickly Add Smooth Transition Anchor Points

Published on May 15, 2009 in tips and video. 39 Comments Tags: Adobe Illustrator, art, artist, Bezier, cartoonist, Illustration, illustrator, productivity, screencast, technique, tip, tutorial, vector, video.

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In this video, I am sharing with you a vector path creation technique to speed up the process of creating curved paths by adding intermediate anchor points after your corners have been created. I used to create my anchor points as I was following the curve of the shape I was tracing. Instead, with this technique the anchor points are added to your vector path after your corners have been created, allowing Illustrator to approximate the length of the curve handles for you with much greater accuracy the first time around.

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Twitter: The Creative Collective

Published on December 26, 2008 in misc. 2 Comments Tags: Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, art, Bob Ostrom, cartoon, cartoonist, illustrator, Photoshop, software.

Illustrator & cartoonist Bob Ostrom mentioned me — George Coghill — on his new freelancing podcast Creative Independence in regards to getting help from other creatives on the addictive social networking service Twitter.

Bob was stuck trying to figure out how to accomplish a technique with Adobe Illustrator, and sent out a plea for help. I dropped a line and we hooked up via iChat to work through his issue.

Bob mentions in the podcast how he was instantly sold on Twitter after the experience. Twitter is a great resource if you follow other illustrators and socialize with them – tapping the collective creative community can be a great resource if you are stuck on how to do something with your software.

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