Monthly Archive: July 2007

Jul
22
2007

Visit "Cartoon Bay Area" on google maps.

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For the last few month I have been putting together a Google Map aimed at visiting Cartoonist and cartoon fans to the Bay Area. It is far from done, but I think it is ready for prime time. I hope it is a help for my friends who will be visiting San Francisco and the Bay Area after Comic-Con this coming week. There is a link on the left to access it when ever you like.

See the Google Map: Cartoon Bay Area

Color Code:

Yellow = Museums and History
Blue = Art Supplies
Red = Comic Book Stores/Book Stores/Toys/Stuff
Burger and Shake = Food

Some places on the Map I have not been too yet, but I have marked the ones I favor with a DOT in the ICON.

If YOU have any suggestions to add to the map, please let me know.

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Jul
19
2007

Gunless Ravenâ„¢ designs

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click for bigger image ©2007 Brian Kolm

I taught a Character Creation class at the Cartoon Art Museum last month where I created the character above. The Gunless Ravenâ„¢ was an example I created for the class. The Gunless Ravenâ„¢ is a nasty gun slinger is reborn as a living scarecrow who can keeping living as long as he never touches a gun. I would like to do something with this character in the future.

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Jul
19
2007

Schulz Museum 5th Anniversary Sketch-a-Thon

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I will be at the Schulz Museum again on August 11 for the 5th anniversary Artist in Residence Sketch-a_Thon event.

Saturday, August 11
Cartoonist Open House and Sketch-a-Thon
Celebrate our 5th Anniversary with a Cartoonist Open House and Sketch-a-Thon. All cartoonists will draw something for the Museum’s permanent collection.

Featured cartoonists include Joe Wos, (Once Upon a Toon), Jorge Pacheco (CEO Dad), Thomas Yeates (Tarzan), and many more. Also enjoy docent–led tours of the Schulz Museum and property all day long.

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Jul
17
2007

Charlie Brown, Snoopy, 9 kids and me.

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I spent all of last week teaching the Character Creation class at the Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa CA. The class was held everyday from 9 to 12:30 in the education room which was stocked to the gills with drawing tools, books, and a TV playing one of my favorite musical themes from Peanuts. In the 1980′s a Saturday Morning Cartoon version of Charles Schulz famous comic strip appeared and featured this catchy opening song….

Catchy, isn’t it.

The class was great and the kids worked hard (most of the time :) ) at all the assignments I threw their way. The goal was to create an original character and to illustrate said character as a colored and cleaned up piece. Below is the character created by your truly from a description give by the students (3000 year old who looks like a teenager, cyborg by choice (she was harmed by killer fish in the amazon), has a pet turtle and lives in an underwater volcano. The drawing was drawn in blue pencil with a dark clean lead line on top, then xeroxed and hand colored.


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The class ended with the students getting copies of there favorite pieces from the week and putting them together into a book with in the cover I illustrated with many of the characters the students created(seen below).


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I also came up with this character…Iron Broccoli Man!


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It was a lot of fun and I hope I can return in the near future.

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Jul
06
2007

The first missing iPhone?

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I was coming on home on BART tonight when an announcement for station agents to keep an eye open for a missing iPhone came over the pa. I swear that the whole station gasp as a group. Just made me laugh. Some poor person is going to loose sleep over their new toy that cost them a lot of money and a bad wireless contract. :)

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Jul
04
2007

Happy 4th of July

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Happy Independences Day America. While things are less then perfect in our country we can celebrate those Americans who work hard to unselfishly make the USA and the world a better place. When we help with no expectations to get anything in return, we are making the world a better place and are true SUPER HEROES.

Today I will be in Redwood City CA for the largest 4th of July parade in Northern California, dressed a Pirate.

Pictures to follow later this week.

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Jul
02
2007

Wondercon 2007 – Linda Medley drawing demonstration

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This is footage I took with my digital still camera at Wondercon 2007 (in March) of the talented Linda Medley as she did a drawing demonstration with the audience.

Ms. Medley talks about how an illustration is different then fine art based on the fact that there is a story to it. While some fine art does have a story, now that (more then ever) it can be interchanged with fine art, to me this is true a lot of the time. This exercises has the audience helping Ms. Medley to answer the Who, What, Where, How and Why and then doing a drawing based on the answers. I am the one that is shouting out answers and not raising my hand (I am a bad man).

Due to my equipment the sound is not very good so I wrote out what what the questions are below. I also DID NOT get footage of her drawing, so I used still images in a montage at the end to show the work. There is some strange glitch (at least for me) where the first photo in the montage in the end stops the footage. Not sure why it does that.

Enjoy.

A rough transcript of the questions:

Who

Human or Animal? Human
Male or Female? Female
Age?: 107
Shape?: Pleasantly Plump
Height: (Short Medium Tall) Medium
Looks: (Attractive – Repulsive – Average – Homely) Attractive
Personality: (Nerd or Cool) Cool
Weak or Strong: Strong
Good or Evil?: Evil
Intelligence level? Smart
Occupation?: Welder
Rich or Poor?: Poor

What

Activity?: Bike Ridding

Where

Indoors or Outdoors: Indoors
Specific Location: Telegraph Hill/Coit Tower
When: (Past or Future)
Era?:
Time of Day: noon

How

How is the character doing the activity
How do they fill: Scared Board Tired Excited etc.

“Why” is the story….

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