Tag Archive for 'vector art'

News Hound

Published on March 8, 2010 in cartooning. 0 Comments Tags: Adobe Illustrator, app, App Store, art, cartoon, cartooning, character, design, dog, drawing, hound, icon, Illustration, iPhone, sketch, vector, vector art.

This cartoon dog news reporter — “News Hound” — was created for an upcoming iPhone news app. The client was pretty specific in what they were looking for: a 1940’s era news reporter, but of course a dog instead of a human.

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St. Practice

Published on March 8, 2010 in cartooning. 0 Comments Tags: Adobe Illustrator, art, beer, cartoon, cartooning, character, drawing, Illustration, monk, sketch, vector, vector art.

This cartoon monk character holding a beer mug was created as a mascot for a St. Patrick’s Day promotion by national chain of Irish-themed sports pubs, Tilted Kilt.

I was approached by the marketing director who found and liked my cartoon illustration of a monk leaning on a beer keg, and wanted something in the same style, but of course their own original character.

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Wissota Woods

Published on March 8, 2010 in cartooning. 0 Comments Tags: Adobe Illustrator, art, bear, cartoon, cartooning, character, design, drawing, Illustration, logo, lumberjack, vector, vector art, web banner.

This cartoon bear as lumberjack character design was created as part of a logo design for hand-crafted wood furniture maker Wissota Woods.

The client approached me on this project wanting a lumberjack character, but also wanting something a bit different. Bears are a fixture in his state of Wisconsin near Lake Wissota, so we ran with that.

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Vector Art Process: Cartoon Dog Initial Color & Shading [video]

Published on December 13, 2009 in cartooning and video. 4 Comments Tags: cartoon, dog, drawing, sketch, Ustream, vector, vector art, video.

Quick video recording from my live Ustream channel. This time, some vector art in porgress. Added the color and initial shading to a cartoon dog character design.

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Disc Sport Icon Design

Published on August 19, 2009 in design. 0 Comments Tags: Adobe Illustrator, design, disc golf, disc sport, dog disc, flying disc, freestyle, frisbee, graphic design, guts, icon, sketch, sports, ultimate, vector art.

A set of flying disc sport icons I created for Flying Disc Magazine. These icons were created as part of the redesign of Flying Disc Magazine (of which I was also the designer). The client wanted to expand the magazine further out from the original focus on disc golf to include additional flying disc sports. We needed to figure out a way to indicate that different magazine articles and columns were associated with the different sports.

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