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Mar 01

VIDEO: Cartooning Workshop time-lapse at the Rohnert Park, CA Library Dec 2013

A time lapse video shot at the Rohnert Park, CA Library Dec 2013 with cartoonist Brian Kolm. To schedule Brian to teach a cartooning lesson for your Library, Museum, School, Private Lesson in the San Francisco/Bay Area and surrounding areas. Rohnert Park, CA Library Time-Lapse w/ Brian Kolm from Brian Kolm on Vimeo. Music: ‘Circus …

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Mar 01

Scheduling Cartooning Workshops and private lessons for Spring and Summer 2014!

I am in the process of filling out my schedule for Spring and Summer cartooning classes. if you are interested in scheduling a workshop for kids, pre-teens, teens (or even adults) I would love to hear from you. Recommended Ages: Anywhere from 7 years to adult. Anyone can draw! Popular Subjects: Superheroes • Fantasy monsters …

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Feb 26

#dailydrawing #animals 9 to 16

Here are Daily Drawings numbers 9 to 16 in my animal sketchbook. To me the notable difference is that I am exaggerating the animals more and giving them a bit more personality that was not in the original photos I referenced. I also have been playing with adding more color and some background textures to …

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Feb 17

#dailydrawing #animals 5 to 8

Time for those Daily Drawing you all love. This week I only have 4 since I had some work obligations as well as a few days of a bad cold. This weeks drawings start off with a big fat squirrel I snapped a photo of at the end of summer (last year) that looks like …

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Feb 10

#dailydrawing #animals 1 to 4

Now that I finished my sketchbook of Pirates (and posted the results on line), it’s time for a new theme…animals. Using photos that I have taken over the last 10 years, my goal is the improve my skills and capture creatures of all sorts. Snazzy cover so I can tell which Sketchbook to grab when …

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Feb 05

Last of the #dailydrawing #pirates (for now) /w Slideshow! Pirates 31-32

My first challenge of Daily Drawings are complete, a sketchbook full of Pirates! My goal was to make each pirate a unique character with a variety of age/gender, something I feel confident I achieved fairly well. So here are the last two drawings in the sketchbook… Knotty No-Eye… Captain Bobby “Blood”… So that makes 32 …

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Feb 03

#dailydrawing s #pirates 25 through 30

Here are the past weeks Daily Drawings for 2014. Once again we continue with the pirate theme with a bunch of interesting folks. It’s been fun to try to imagine what the characters role on the pirate ship is and/or what their quirks are and to show them visually. My hope is that each character …

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Jan 27

#dailydrawing #pirate drawings 18 to 24

Yo ho ho! It’s Daily Drawing Monday, so it’s time for a weeks worth of Pirate drawings (18 to 24). My secondary challenge this week was to use an animal design for each pirate. What I love about this week is that by forcing a pirate “costume” over a (cartoony) animal form forced me to …

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