Brian Kolm
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May 28
Tin Tin and the Lake of Sharks
I just found this on YouTube. It’s a Tin-Tin animated feature from the 1970’s, the Lake of Sharks. I really like a lot of the animation and backgrounds, but I wish the voice where more like the series on HBO from the early 1990. In ENGLISHTintin is sent to guard Professor Calculus, who has invented …
May 25
NEW KidBeowulf.com website! NEW Kid Beowulf publisher!
Alexis Fajardo has a new website for his Graphic Novel series, Kid Beowulf up today and it looks awesome. Besides a handsome, clean design it now sports a RSS feed so you can find out when it’s been updated from your favorite web news reader. The new format also makes it easy to link too …
May 22
The art of Yoshitaka Amano
Yoshitaka Amano is the character designer for classic anime series Battle of the Planets/G-Force, Vampire Hunter D, and many others. Most recently he works in NY and Japan and does paintings, many featuring the characters he created. There is something very sensual and sexy about his work while being both classic and timeless as well …
May 22
Art: Adventure on the High Seas!
click for a bigger image. Pen and Ink drawing with color in PhotoShop. This art includes some work with a brush dipped in ink, something I am far from good at. I find I want to always rest/drag my hand on the art as I work and that is probably not good. Tags: drawing|sketch|painting|art|Brian Kolm|comics|AtomicBearPress|ABP|
May 18
Dancing Superheros
Makes me smile and laugh. This was created with the online site PICTAPS. Ultraman(s) is/are the only superhero(s) who can really get away with dancing I think.
May 15
Sketch: Warlock Fish and Dragon Lantern (at MSAT)
These were drawn during my class at MSAT, yesterday. Each one was based off of a Random Name from my deck of Super Hero Names. The first one is called Dragon Lantern and the second is Warlock Fish. Click for larger images. Tags: drawing|sketch|painting|art|Brian Kolm|comics|Atomic Bear Press|AtomicBearPress|ABP|
May 15
Guarnido’s Blacksad artwork
If you haven’t seen the work of the Spanish artist Juanjo Guarnido has created for Blacksad, it’s worth a look. He has created a cool film noir world of anthropomorphic animals all rendered in watercolor. The work is simple stunning.
May 15
Tools: Random Names from behindthename.com
This site, behindthename.com will take a data-base of real names and randomize it either generally, or with specific ethnic backgrounds. It definitely can be a great way to come up with character names for any type of storytelling. The only down size is that it can only generate one name at a time and you …
