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COGHILL
George Coghill
Cartoon logo and character artist George Coghill works with two distinct sets of
tools to create cartoon logos—one set for the character art, and one for the design
and type elements. He's able to be even more productive now that his Workspace
presets include Custom Tools panels. Coghill starts cartoon logo creation with the
character art, using the more organic creation tools such as the Pen tool, various
Brushes, the Width tool, and the Shape Builder tool. Once the vector art for the
character is complete, he then designs the full logo using the Type tool and
multiple Shape tools. He includes the Pen and Selection tools in both
environments. The first thing Coghill does is create a new Custom Tools panel by
choosing Window> Tools> New Tools Panel, entering the name “Art Tools” in the
dialog, and clicking OK. One at a time, he click-drags each desired tool from the
default Tools panel onto his new custom panel.
