Cartooning & Illustration Blog: Coghillustration

A fun post over at Dark Roasted Blend: Ladies & Robots: a collection of 1950’s era photos and illustration of pinup-style girls with sci-fi robots! Great stuff and a must-visit link.

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I love this psychedelic approach for this illustration. The body made up of all the small images is killer.

via FLUORESCENT ADOLESCENT (artist unknown)

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Poster illustration by Michael Hacker.

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Darth Vader/Switzerland promo poster illustration by Alberto Russo

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Yeasayer: illustrative concert poster via ffffound

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I recently completed a concert poster design featuring a fez-wearing cartoon genie mascot character for Nashville, Tennessee roots-rock jam band Vinyl Soup.

I have been working with guitarist Andrew Hooker for some time now with t-shirt designs, a logo redesign, concert posters and other promotional materials for the band.

Recent gig poster design work for Vinyl Soup had started to go down a path of design-only work. Andrew initially contacted me for a t-shirt design for the band, and his initial interest was in my cartooning/illustration work.

Starting out on concepts for this poster, I was again working on a solely design-oriented approach, and before I got too far along I dropped Andrew an email to see if going back to an illustrative style would be cool with him. It most certainly was, so I set about to work up a theme for the poster.

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This cartoon character drawing was created for a friend’s upcoming party, which will also be doubling as a U.S. wedding reception for our friend Setty, who just got married over in India.

Setty is obsessed with the drinking dice game “Left, Right, Center”. He’s also notorious for exclaiming “Shots!” when out drinking, therefore the shot glass.

The friend who requested the art suggested creating it in the Odd Rods/”Big Daddy” Roth style which I am known to emulate from time to time.

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Very soon, Sal Canzonieri of the band Electric Frankenstein will be publishing a massive concert poster/rock art book, and a piece of mine created specifically for the tome will be included. Very cool stuff! Due out fall/winter 2006.

Check out the blurb Dark Horse Books is using to promote (via one of Sal’s posts on GigPosters.com)…

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