Humorous illustrator/cartoonist George Coghill specializes in original cartoon character creation & devlopment for mascots, logos, avatars. Become a fan and get updates on my newest cartoons, sketches, drawings, and art.
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- “Liberty Girl” Cartoon Character Pinup Sketch 11:23am Jul 1
- Cartoon Ogre Mascot Character 11:25am Jun 24
- Bodyguard Cartoon Mascot Character Illustration 11:21am Jun 16
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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...


This character was created for a company providing online, off-site file backup solutions. They wanted a character that would embody the idea of safe, secure and encrypted...


Coghill Cartooning Wrapping up a bunch of design work for the Akron Art Museum family adventure guides. They are looking good!


I recently created an in-depth Adobe Illustrator tutorial for the Go Media graphic design and illustration blog GoMediaZine. The tutorial covers the creation of a cartoon character mascot from sketch to final vector art...


Click here to view the embedded video. 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...


Coghill Cartooning Been working like crazy on all sorts of fun cartooning & illustration projects. Love the work, but it can be overwhelming at times.


It’s been a long time since I’ve updated my blog with recent work, I have been (gladly) super busy with client projects, deadlines and upcoming work that I need to make time for now...


WMMS Buzzard mascot cartoon character illustration, created by David Helton. If you grew up in Cleveland in the late 1970’s or early 1980’s, you saw the WMMS Buzzard mascot cartoon character everywhere...


For longer than I can remember, I have been flustered with the Flatten Transparency feature in Adobe Illustrator CS3 and CS4...


For all you Photoshop brush junkies out there, here’s a Mac OS XQuick Look plugin to preview Photoshop Brush Files (.abr) in the Finder...


A handy, exhaustive resource on Greek key border patterns, including a handy online Greek key border pattern generator to create dozens of variations...


Recently I was dealing with a problem in GarageBand, where the application would lock up when I was attempting the change the tempo of a song. For many months I struggled with this until it got to the point where I decided to do some in-depth troubleshooting...


Coghill Cartooning Working on some packaging design for a fishing product I also designed a cartoon mascot & logo for.


Coghill Cartooning Studio is all cleaned up (which it needed badly!) and I'm getting ready for the photojournalism student to stop by for the photoshoot.


iPhone Photo Keysis an interesting iPhone/iPod Touch Photoshop helper application available on the iTunes App Store. Photo Keys turns your iPhone or iPod touch into a Photoshop companion tool by putting the entire Photoshop toolbar, as well as many useful shortcuts right at your fingertips...


Here’s a freebie for all my loyal readers: a free Photoshop action I created myself to eliminate repetitive tasks I (used to) go through each time I scanned in a new sketch for further work in Photoshop. Boost your productivity with this free Photoshop download...


I recently wrote a guest-review over at Mac OS X-based graphic design blog The Graphic Mac for the brand-new font management utility Fontcase. In short, I have found Fontcase to be a very cool new font manager for OS X...


I don’t own a Wacom Cintiq graphics tablet, but I have heard quite a bit of grumbling from Cintiq owners about the way the cursor is displayed: I guess it’s offset a bit with the idea that your hand would obscure the cursor so Wacom has offset it a bit, which takes some getting used to...


I recently finished up the first round of a series of custom avatar illustrations for the Cleveland, Ohio convention and visitor’s bureau Positively Cleveland. The initial set of avatar illustrations were for the “web women” of Positively Cleveland — the main online team for their website...


Here are a few handy keyboard shortcuts in Photoshop for those of you out there like me who spend an inordinate amount of time in the Creative Suite primarily using Illustrator...


It’s happened to all of us digital creatives. The dreaded daywhen you just cannot get one of your Adobe applications to launch. Usually there’s a deadline looming (of course). You’ve restarted your computer (three times) and still you cannot get Photoshop to launch...


Click here to view the embedded video. 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...


Cartoonist and regular MAD Magazine artist Tom Richmond just posted someinsider tips on working for MAD Magazine over at his excellent blog...


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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...


Hold down the Option key when erasing using the Eraser Brush, and you’ll get a marquee that you can drag to erase a perfectly rectangular area...
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