Monthly Archive: March 2009

Mar
29
2009

June 15-19 and 22-26, July 13-17, August 3-7;Cartoon Boot Camp 2009 at the Cartoon Art Museum

Hey all, I will be teaching some of the Cartoon Boot Camp at the Cartoon Art Museum this summer. So if you are an intermediate artist between the ages of 10 and 14 this camp might be right for you. I am teaching all the classes except for the week of July 6-10.

Cartoon Boot Camp
Summer Session 2009

with Brian Kolm and Daniel Salcido

Learn to draw comic strips, cartoon characters, super heroes and more!

For ages 10 to 14 years old:

June 15 through 19
June 22 through 26
July 6 through 10
July 13 through 17

For ages 7 to 14:

August 3 through 7

All sessions run Monday through Friday from 12 noon to 2:00 pm at the Cartoon Art Museum.

$125 per week for non-members / $100 per week for members

To register please call 415-227-8666 x303 or email education@cartoonart.org.

All participants must be pre-paid prior to the first day of each session. Full refunds given with 2 weeks cancellation notice prior to the first day of the session. 50% refund given within 7 to 13 days of the first day of the session. No refunds given within 6 days prior to the first day of the session.

Summer Boot Camp 2009 Curriculum

Intermediate ages 10-14:

June 15-19: Designing Superheroes

Superheroes are a big part of American pop culture with characters as diverse as Batman, Wonder Woman, Mr. Incredible and Diaperman. Students will learn to draw these and their own brightly colored lads and ladies who fight crime. The class will teach the students how to draw humanoid heroes in pose, physique, personality, costume and presentation.

June 22-26: From Storyboard to Animatic

In this class students learn to draw storyboards just like the ones used in movies and television shows. Once the storyboards are created students will develop them into an animated piece. The class will explore drawing, camera moves and lighting, timing and communication, and applying simple animation and camera moves to give a simulation of what a final film would look like.

July 6-11: Rendering Techniques for Comics

(taught by the awsome Daniel Salcido ) This class will focus on illustration techniques including the use of pencil, charcoal, and inking along with cross hatching and other rendering approaches to create shade and shadow and other dramatic effects in cartoon drawings.

July 13-17: Storytelling for Comics

Students will explore the process of creating a story including writing an outline, developing the structure of the story, creating characters, and making rough layouts.

Beginner level ages 7-14:

August 3-7: Cartoon Craft

Young students will participate in a fun week of cartoon and crafts combined, including the creation of projects that explore collage, flipbooks, zoetrope, paper dolls, puppets, and robots.

Mar
29
2009

Follow me on Twitter

My friend Adam convinced me to join Twitter. I am now on Twitter as AtomicBearPress if anyone wants to read my infrequent micro posts there. http://twitter.com/AtomicBearPress

I am mostly going to post ‘tweets’ that are about my artwork and teaching, so nothing too personal will be there.

Mar
27
2009

Telephone Robot

The talented artist Becky Dreistadt AKA PocketOwl, asked on Deviant Art for ideas for drawings. Mine was a 50′s Robot combined with a Telephone. Check it out HERE.

Becky is also the artist on the awesome web comic Tiny Kitten Teeth. Read it on-line NOW. It’s really cool and visually striking.

Mar
18
2009

Artist inspirations on-line.

It seems that this week there have been a lot of really good posts on comics and art on-line and as always I love to share them with you. Of course I am a huge fan of all these artist and highly recommend checking out their sites and blogs.

Craig Thompson (Goodby Chunky Rice, Blankets) Has posted a page from his comic-in-progress Habibi and showed how he used some scanned sketches into PhotoShop to help figure out a page layout. His work is so amazingly beautiful. Check it out HERE: http://blog.dootdootgarden.com/2009/03/17/overexert/

Tony DiTerlizzi has posted his progress of creating the third and final cover for his series Beyond the Spiderwick. I love his work. His creature looks like Ursula’s pet eels sort of. Check it out: http://diterlizzi.com/blog/2009/03/18/wyrm-king-cover/

Ruben Procopio posted some of his cover work of The Phantom. I love his rough sketches as well as the finished work. Here: http://maskedavengerstudios.blogspot.com/2009/03/latest-on-phantom.html

Here Steve Rude has posted a video of him inking a comic cover:
Inking Origin Cover #2

Mar
18
2009

No Wigs and Un-Pluged

I just saw that Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer who were the Mock band in This is Spinal Tap and A Mighty Wind are performing for real in a six week tour. No characters (i.e. no wigs) and playing acoustic only. If you have seen either of the excellent mocumentry’s then you know that these guys are pretty good. I will look forward to hearing how they sound. http://www.unwigged.com

UNWIGGED & UNPLUGGED An Evening with Christopher Guest, Michael McKean & Harry Shearer (March 2, 2009 – Los Angeles) — Actors/Directors/Musicians and Comedy Icons Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer are doing something they have never done before; performing a six week, 30 city multi-media acoustic tour without wigs and electric instruments. UNWIGGED & UNPLUGGED: An Evening with Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer has the legendary musical and comedic trio performing music from heavy metal’s loudest band Spinal Tap along with the folk music from A Mighty Wind, and more. Tickets for the UNWIGGED & UNPLUGGED tour go on sale Friday, March 6th, with the tour starting Friday, April 17th in Vancouver and ending Sunday, May 31st in Milwaukee. UNWIGGED & UNPLUGGED is not about funny costumes and characters, but rather three long time friends and collaborators who make each laugh and love nothing better than to find some excuse to get together and play music. The trio commented, “With this being the 25th Anniversary of the film This is Spinal Tap, we thought this would be a fun and at the same time, a little challenging, as we have never performed as ourselves. Think of the evening as three old friends jamming in your living room. As opposed to OUR living rooms; we won’t be home.” UNWIGGED & UNPLUGGED will feature songs from the original soundtrack This Is Spinal Tap (1984), the studio album Break Like The Wind (1992), and A Mighty Wind (2003) along with some special surprises and rarities thrown in. Guest, McKean, and Shearer have a rich history going back decades. Guest and McKean first met in college where they wrote songs together. As for McKean and Shearer, they have known each other since 1970 when they were both members of satirical group The Credibility Gap on radio, stage and records. In 1979, Guest, McKean and Shearer appeared together for the first time in a Rob Reiner-produced, sketch comedy television pilot called The TV Show. It was here the world got their famous glimpse of Spinal Tap featuring lead singer David St. Hubbins (McKean), guitarist Nigel Tufnel (Guest), and bassist Derek Smalls (Shearer). In 1984, Reiner and the lads devised a way to bring the group back this time in a major motion picture, This Is Spinal Tap, and the rest is history, literally. This Is Spinal Tap was ranked #29 of the “100 Funniest Films of All Time” by The American Film Institute and The Library of Congress added the film to the National Film Registry’s list of 25 American cinematic works selected for historical preservation calling the film a ‘culturally significant’ work. Entertainment Weekly recently awarded TISP eleventh place (of course) in their “cult film” list. And Netflix has ranked This Is Spinal Tap in the Top 1% of all Netflix Titles in terms of total rentals to-date!

Mar
15
2009

My Dad…

My dad just recently passed away and at the service my sister made a really excellent slideshow to highlight his life. She has posted in on YouTube.

Mar
13
2009

Links, Links, Links

Jillian Tamaki has a great post on coming up with ideas (thanks Romi) http://www.jilliantamaki.com/sketchbook/2008/10/idea-generation.html

The Bronze Age Blog has a nice post on Eclipse Comics’ Sabre, the first graphic novel that was sold directly to comic book stores and not to news stands. Of course this was back in 1978 and now in 2009 most graphic novels (the physical paper kind) are sold in book stores more then in comic book stores. It’s an intersting read: http://bronzeageofblogs.blogspot.com/2009/03/sabre.html

I am really enjoying the new webcomic Tiny Kitten Teeth. It’s hand painted in full color and is odd and fun. Here: http://www.tinykittenteeth.com/

Mar
09
2009

Brian Kolm day at WDW

I am very excited to announce that Walt Disney World will be customizing there “what will you celebrate” promotion to…Me. They knew my birthday was coming up and produced this video…

OK, you can be the star of the park by going here, http://www.sun7news.com. Just scroll down to the video and skip the email to friends area. Goofy actually says your name.

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