This cartoon astronaut with a cake spaceship was a fun t-shirt design. It was created for the annual Houston, Texas cake trade show & expo “That Takes The Cake!” hosted by Capital Confectioners.
Cake Odyssey
illustration
Belt-Fed Baby
Here’s a wild project I recently completed – Belt-Fed Baby!
The client was the owner of a gun shop, and he always used the pun of referring to himself as a “belt-fed baby” (as opposed to a “bottle-fed baby”), playing on the belt-fed aspect of machine guns.
I loved the juxtaposition of the cute baby and the giant machine gun, although I am sure there are some out there who will be up in arms over the design.
Video: Cartoon Gorilla Color, Shading & Highlights Process
Followup video of the cartoon gorilla character demonstrating the color, shading and highlight additions to the character.
The video showing the creation of the vector line art can be found here.
Check out the final cartoon gorilla character art on my portfolio site.
Video: Cartoon Gorilla Vector Line Art Process
Video from recent Ustream live broadcast featuring initial vector line art creation for a cartoon gorilla character design.
I also briefly discuss Adobe Illustrator template setup and usage at the end of the video clip.
The vector art color, shading & highlighting video can be found here.
Check out the final cartoon gorilla character art on my portfolio site.
Batman head – rough sketch
Batman head, originally uploaded by Coghill Cartooning.
Initial cleanup sketch for a Batman head drawing.
Batman sketch
Big Mouth (sketch)
Cartoon Woman with Big Mouth, originally uploaded by Coghill Cartooning.
Unused rough sketch for a client project, a telephone service iPhone app icon design.
Concept was a cartoon character woman with a telephone headset and a big mouth.
Alien Sphinx
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.
Stubborn Gorilla Sketch
Stubborn gorilla sketch, originally uploaded by Coghill Cartooning.
Rough sketch for a client project. Cartoon gorilla character design.