Tag Archive for 'Portfolio'

CoghillCartooning.com — Launched!

Published on April 23, 2010 in news. 3 Comments Tags: cartoon, cartoon character design, cartoon logo design, cartooning, Illustration, Portfolio, website.

If you haven’t noticed, I’ve done a complete overhaul to my website as well as moving everything over to the CoghillCartooning.com domain. Designed by me, coded by my patient friend John “CJ” Wallace (@vagrantrevival).

A big tip of the hat to: my buddy Greg Newman at 20Seven (@gregnewman) for snazzing up my navigation links and general web Jedi advice, Matheau Dakoske (@matheaud) of Code Line Software for more coding help and general testing, and finally Heather Malarcik (@hkmalarcik) at Malarcik Marketing for proof-reading and spicing up the text content.

In a sense, this new website reflects a milestone for me. More on that later. For now, I want to share some of the background behind the process.

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Commander In Beef

Published on August 25, 2008 in Illustration and cartooning. 0 Comments Tags: Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, art, caricature, cartoon, cartooning, funny, humorous, Illustration, illustrator, parody, Portfolio, satire, sketch, vector, Wacom.

A recent Obama & McCain humorous cartoon illustration I created for Time Out NY for the “Commander In Beef” article regarding what New York City chefs would prepare for the 2008 presidential candidates. The illustration was created for the dining section, and is currently being featured on the front page of the Time Out NY website’s dining section. The featured artwork is a spot illustration companion piece to the full page illustration I created for the print article:

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Monk/Friar With Beer Keg – Cartoon Mascot Illustration

Published on July 24, 2008 in Illustration and cartooning. 0 Comments Tags: Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, art, cartoon, cartoon character, cartoon character design, cartooning, drawing, freelance, how-to, humorous, Illustration, illustrator, mascot, Photoshop, Portfolio, sketch, Tutorials, vector, Wacom.

Cartoon monk mascot with beer (thumbnail) I recently finished up this ‘Theology On Tap’ cartoon character mascot/logo project for a youth ministries client.

The client is a youth ministries minister, and his new program is focused on bringing discussions of theological matters into more casual settings to try and reach additional young people.

The artwork is intended to be used on various advertising and promotional materials, as well as a t-shirt design.

I thought it odd at first, but I suppose there’s nothing really wrong about talking about religious matters in a bar, right? And I suppose a minister knows the deal. My only concern was to create a great illustration for him and his project.

Anyways, read on for an in-depth overview of the process to create this cartoon character mascot/logo from start to finish, including unused sketches created along the way.

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Alphabits: Cool Cartoon Alphabet Woodcarvings

Published on August 26, 2007 in art, cartooning and inspiration. 0 Comments Tags: alphabet, art, artist, cartoon, cartooning, cool, Cool Stuff, humorous, Illustration, monster, Portfolio, web links, woodcarving.

Just stumbled across this awesome Flickr set of cartoon woodcarved panels by ojimbo. Each letter of the alphabet (sadly, only up to N right now) has it’s own panel with excellent juxtapositions of objects that begin with each letter. I totally want these as trading cards. Pictured is A is for Afro.

The best pieces have combos and triple combos, like the “Masked Mermaid with Mohawk” in the letter M.

Be sure to check out the entire set!

Cool Reconfigured Plastic Toy Art

Published on August 25, 2007 in art and inspiration. 0 Comments Tags: art, artist, cartoon, cool, Cool Stuff, creature, cute, fun, gallery, monster, Portfolio, web links.

Plastic toy art insect bug sculpture Cool plastic toy art made from recombined plastic toys by artist Sang Won Sung, a Korean artist living in Brazil. The website is in Flash, and there’s not much info, mostly just images in the Portfolio section. The bugs are especially cool, and there are some other toy designs of funky cartoon type characters (including some superheroes) as well.