Brian Kolm
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Jul 05
4th of July parade 2006 – Redwood City CA
Yesterday I had the pleasure of being Redwood City, CA for their annual Forth of July Parade. Below are a handful of photos I took while there. Some might be out of order. Before the parade started I checked out a car show with some beautiful machines. Then I got to see the start of …
Jul 02
Birthday heroes
One service I can offer is to provide some entertainment for birthday parties, like this one I did last sunday with a superhero theme. Here are the heroes the boys ( and one girl) created. Here are the birthday kids and me with the birthday boy. And here is the drawing I did for the …
Jul 01
Sketch 6-29-06 Creature with Class
This was drawn after my class had let out and I was eating lunch. I used two piece of reference: a period costume and the creature from the black lagoon. I really like how it came out. Tags: drawing|sketch|painting|art|Brian Kolm|comics|Atomic Bear Press|AtomicBearPress|ABP|
Jul 01
Sketch(es) 6-30-06 Captain Sea-Buckleâ„¢ – character creation
One of the character creation assignments I did in my class this week was to do some brain-storming to come up with a character idea. Since I want to practice what I preach, I created a character too. My key words I finally picked were: Pirate, Magical, and Robot I then thought about reference that …
Jul 01
Cartoon Art Camp – Day #4-5
Well, what a fun/busy week it’s been at the Cartoon Art Museum. Day #4 of Character Creation class was mostly drawing a final piece of art, including inking and color. It was a day of jokes, and I sometimes had to remind them to keep drawing. I was able to xerox their final line art …
Jun 29
Cartoon Art Camp – Day #3
Well half way through the week long Cartoon Art Camp at the Cartoon Art Museum. The kids today jump right in and worked hard to design there characters. We did some work to explore way to find different character possibilities through combining ideas. I was also going to give a lesson on drawing faces, but …
Jun 28
Cartoon Art Camp – Day #2
Well, day #2 of my week long class at the cartoon art museum was excellent. One student left, but another one arrived to take there place. We worked on creating figures using basic shapes and then added costumes based on reference images. Lots of fun. Tag(s): Beyond the Great Chimney|btgc|comics|Brian Kolm|Atomic Bear Press|AtomicBearPress|ABP|
Jun 27
Cartoon Art Camp – Day #1
Today was the first day of my week long class I am teaching at the Cartoon Art Museum. I have a great bunch of kids who seem to be very talented. Today we worked on our shape basics, featuring the the standard 3 head high but with a punk rock twist. Richard Becker, a very …
