Just a quick report. Preview night, last night was slamming with tons of folks. Today there were big crowds and lots of amazing art all of the place. At the CAM table we did very well with the Artist-in-Residence Sketch-a-thon. I will write some more when I have the time.
Monthly Archive: July 2007
Jul
27
2007
Jul
25
2007
Off to San Diego Comic-Con 2007
Well…my bags are just about packed and then it’s off to bed. I have to get some sleep before my flight in the morning that will whisk me off to San Diego…a magical land of sun shine, zoo animals, and beautiful girls dressed as wookies. A land where the streets of the Gas Light District are a mixed of military personal dressed in polo shirts standing next to a guy who weights 300 pounds in a spandex. Ah, good times ahead.
My flight will be getting in tomorrow in time for a nice lunch, picking up my badge and a bit of site seeing…leading up to Preview Night. I won’t be working the table (E11) until Thursday Morning. The table is going to be a hoot with lots of big names in comics coming to help raise money for the Cartoon Art Museum.
For me I will be taking the opportunity of being trapped in a room with 200,000 people to work on my Graphic Novel and numerous other projects at the table as well as doing regular and COLOR sketches for donations. So if you want a sketch from me, come by table E11 and if you have time, ask me about my projects. You will be glad you did.
Well back to packing. See you soon.
Jul
24
2007
Wausau paper test with Watercolors
I am trying out a new paper to draw and paint on. It’s Wausau Exact Ice 80lb and it comes highly recommended by a friend of mine. This artist paints on it in both watercolors and acrylics and also does most of his rough and final comic art on it. One of the things that attracted me to it, is that it can be xeroxed on so you can reproduce your line work multiple times in case you mess up coloring and rendering on it. The paper handles the watercolor like a hot press surface (drys fast, shows more texture) and it did buckle a bit when I had a lot of water on it, but it seems like it’s a good material to work on still, plus if you buy it from a store like Kelly Paper it cost about $.10 for a 11″x17″ sheet. Can’t go wrong with that price. Of course you have to by a half ream to start with.
I will be taking the paper down with me to San Diego to do some color sketches and experiments, so I will have some stuff to show next week here on the blog. If you are a fellow artist who is going to SDCC I would be happy share a piece with you if you want to give it a try.
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Jul
24
2007
First Look: Kid Beowulf: Bards Tale teaser trailer
When I taught at the Schulz Museum two weeks ago I was lucky enough to be able to stay nearby with my fellow artist Alexis Fajardo. I had helped Alexis create a trailer for his first graphic novel, and we collaborated together to create one for his upcoming Graphic Novel Kid Beowulf: Bards Tale. It was lots of fun to see how fast we could come up with a sneak peek at the novel.
This was created in two nites using Adobe After Effects and Photoshop.
The player above contains all of the Kid Beowulf work I have done.
Jul
23
2007
Jul
22
2007
Me on CNN Headline News in August
While teaching at the Schulz Museum two weeks ago I was filmed for a segment on Headline News. The segment is to celebrate the 5th Anniversary of the Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa CA. The segment won’t play until August and to find out when you would have to check….http://www.norcalcle.com/ in August. NOTE: I believe it will only play for Northern California stations.
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Jul
22
2007
Visit me at the SDCC 2007
San Diego Comic-Con 2007 is only 3 days away now and I wanted to post where I could be found. I will be at the Cartoon Art Museum booth….E11. If you haven’t gotten your ticket I would do it soon. The 4 day memberships are all ready sold out. The say there might be 200,000 people this year.(Yikes!)NOTE: Saturday is now Sold Out. I wonder if any other days will sell out too.
I will be drawing and selling all weekend, so drop on by.
The Cartoon Art Museum booth will also feature some amazing talent for their artist-in-residence sketch-a-thon. Some of the guests* will be…. (subject to change)
Cartoon Art Museum: Table E-11
Thursday, July 26
2-3pm: Luke Feldman
3-4pm: Keith Knight & Tom Beland
4-5pm: Batton Lash
Friday, July 27
12-1pm: Steve Lieber
1-2pm: Daryl Cagle
2-3pm: Brian Kolm (ME)
3-4pm: Derek Kirk Kim & Shannon O’Leary
4-5pm: Debbie Huey
Saturday, July 28
11am-12pm: Shannon O’Leary
12-1pm: Tom Beland
1-1:30pm: Alison Bechdel
2-3pm: Alan Groening
3-4pm: Derek Kirk Kim & Jesse Hamm
4-5pm: Rick Geary & Eric Powell
* If you are a professional artist and would like to give some time, please contact Andrew Farago at gallery@cartoonart.org. We can do two artist at once, so there are slots open with some of the folks all ready listed.
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Jul
22
2007
More of my art from the July Cartoon Boot Camp
This first piece from the Cartoon Boot Camp at the Cartoon Art Museum was where each student wrote some key words on a sheet of paper (Type of Character, Attitude, Prop) and then they were re-distributed randomly to a different artist who drew from that description. This is the drawing I did.
This drawing comes from our “Weird Wild West” exercises where we created characters who fit the theme including there back story. This is a Indian Warrior who is stuck as a werewolf.
For our final assignment we created a model sheet of a character. This is mine. Marty McFishtask the Walrus. He’s fun loving and travels all the time.
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