Tag Archive for 'CS4'

Alien Sphinx

Published on February 18, 2010 in cartooning. 0 Comments Tags: alien, art, cartoon, cartooning, character, CS4, drawing, Illustration, Photoshop, robot, sketch, sphinx, Wacom.

Alien Sphinx color sketch, originally uploaded by Coghill Cartooning.

Working color sketch for a personal series of bizarre creatures I work on from time to time.

Wanted to get some of these fleshed out. Scanned the original into Photoshop and cleaned up and did the coloring in Photoshop CS4 using a Wacom Untus4 medium graphics tablet.

this will need some further refinements to the overall drawing – not happy with the uraeus snake on the top (looks like a question mark!) and the tail needs some reworking.

Just wanted to share the progress at this stage.

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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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Cartoon Ogre Mascot Character

Published on June 24, 2009 in cartooning. 4 Comments Tags: Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, art, cartoon, CS4, illustrator, vector, Wacom.

Working color vector art for a mascot character project. The ogre will be used as a mascot for a video game portal website. We needed a prop and I suggested a video game controller, the client wanted to go with an old-school Atari 2600 controller, which I think looks great. it’s such an iconic design it really reads well, which is important for smaller sizes.

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Flattening Transparency Properly When Using Layer Appearances in Adobe Illustrator

Published on April 17, 2009 in tips. 3 Comments Tags: Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, art, CS3, CS4, Illustration, illustrator, software, troubleshooting, vector.

For longer than I can remember, I have been flustered with the Flatten Transparency feature in Adobe Illustrator CS3 and CS4. Very often I use the excellent Layer Targeting feature introduced into recent versions of Adobe Illustrator, however I found that when using the Flatten Transparency feature, it seemed to ignore the attributes of the Targeting, which forced me to find lengthy workarounds to solve this. Turns out there was an approach to solving this that I had overlooked…

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Video: Photoshop CS4 Drag-Resize Brush Keyboard Shortcut

Published on January 14, 2009 in software, tutorials and video. 3 Comments Tags: Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, art, artist, cartoon, Creative Suite, CS4, drawing, how-to, illustrator, keyboard shortcuts, Mac, Photoshop, productivity, screencast, shortcuts, sketch, software, technique, tool, tutorial, upgrade, vector, video, Wacom.

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Another brief video in my series introducing some great new features in Photoshop CS4 for artists, cartoonists, illustrators and anyone else who sketches or draws using Photoshop.

This video features the excellent new keyoard shortcuts that allow you to drag-resize the size of the brushes using the mouse pointer.

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