Category Archive: Cam-Jam

May
12
2013

Video: Paper Monster Party 2 vs Superheroes – May 11, 2013 follow-up

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NOTE: There are bits of sound here and there, but just in the middle. So be aware so it’s not too shocking!

Paper Monster Party 2 – May 11, 2013 from Brian Kolm on Vimeo.

Yesterday was the 2nd annual Paper Monster Party at the Cartoon Art Museum, a sequel to the event I helped to organize two years ago. The event allowed artists of all levels to customize paper toys into monsters or superheros. The superhero theme came from the opening today of the Superman 75th anniversary exhibit at the Museum. We had both artist who came just for the event as well as the general public who were visiting the museum cut, color and fold paper toys into their own characters.

The blank paper toy templates we used were:

- Fold n Fun by Brian Gubicza @ http://goobeetsa.com/freestuff.html
- P.D. Paper Dude @ http://www.custompapertoys.com
- Anywere DIY Toy by Morgan Gleave @ http://www.nicepapertoys.com/profiles/blog/list?user=00zvnchiqxozs
- and Paper Toy Template 001 by me, Brian Kolm – DOWNLOAD IT HERE

A big thanks to our artist/animators: Julie Davis, Rob P, Imogen, Andrew G, Renee French, Sameer Ajmani, Joss M, Alyla M, Mom M, and Rick Lucey.

The stop-motion video was something new from the previous event and was created with Boinx’s iStopmotion app on an iPad which worked mostly just like the desktop version, with the exception that the images are a bit blurry. I will have to figure out if there is a way to fix that.

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Paper Monster Party 2 2013 video preview image

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Apr
18
2013

2013-05-11 PAPER MONSTER PARTY 2 vs SUPERHEROES 2-5:30 pm

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I have teamed up with our pals at the Cartoon Art Museum for the fist CAM-JAM of 2013. When we did this event two years ago it was a blast and hopefully this year will be even better.
Paper Monster Party 2013

CAM-JAM 2013 – PAPER MONSTER PARTY 2 vs SUPERHEROES!

Location: Cartoon Art Museum Bookstore 655 Mission St. San Francisco, CA
http://www.cartoonart.org/
Who: Artists, Students, Hobbyist
Date: Saturday May 11, 2013
Time: 2 pm to 5:30 pm
Admission: FREE, but we are asking for a donation of $0.25 cents for each printed blank paper toy.

FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE HERE!

The CAM-JAM returns with the 2nd annual Paper Monster Party at to the Cartoon Art Museum bookstore for a day of making DIY Paper Toys! Wether you are a pro or just a hobbyist, the event will provide artistic challenges and a chance to hobnob with fellow artists all-the-while cutting, folding and customizing simple paper shapes into characters. Since the Superman exhibit opens the same day we will have a superhero theme as well as a chance to bring out creations to life through animation!

• Make a DIY Paper Toy! We will have printed blank templates for DIY Paper Toys as well as scissors and tape to construct them. We’ll also have a handful pens, pencils and other goodies to customize your creation.
• Bring your creation to life with Stop-Motion Animation! Make you creation move on video frame by frame with our stop-motion animation station. The video will be posting on-line the following week.
See you there.
CAM-Jam 2011 #2 : Paper Monster Party (sept 11, 2011)

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Jun
30
2012

Video: inkDrinkDraw Comic-Jam at the 3rd Thursday at the Cartoon Art Museum

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This is the first ever video taken of a comic jam for inkDrinkDraw. George Webber took the time-lapse video and photos with his iPhone and I assembled them in Adobe After Effects. I am pretty pleased at how it came out.

What do you think, do you want to see more videos like this one?

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Jun
27
2012

2012-07-14 CAM Comic and Art Fest / BATMANIA at the Cartoon Art Museum SF

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When I go to a convention, one of the things that I enjoy most is the energizing feeling that comes form being in a room filled with other creative folks. So imagine one of the largest conventions in the US, the San Diego Comic-Con with it’s 100′s of thousands of artists, writers, and performers and the energy that bounces around the room so much that sometimes you need to fight your way outside and take a break. Well, this year I am not going down to Comic-Con, but after talking to my artist friends we decided that we still wanted to get together with our peers and get that energizing feeling. So in collaboration with the Cartoon Art Museum Bookstore we quickly set-up the first ever CAM Comic and Art Fest (Sat July 14, 2012). The event is open to everyone who wants to participate: Artist, Fan and everyone else.

We (inkDrinkDraw, which I am a co-founder) have no idea if anyone will even show up, but we are setting up featured special guests, space to make and sell art and lots, lots more. So come on down and join us.
CAM Comic and Art Fest logo

CAM Comic and Art Fest at the Cartoon Art Museum
Saturday July 14, 2012
Twitter mention: #CAMcomicartfest

The Cartoon Art Museum July 14th !
11am to 5pm (655 Mission St. San Francisco)

This weekend lots of artist and fans are down in San Diego for the Comic-Con, but some of us can’t go. So why not get together and celebrate fandom, comics and art. It should be a blast for Fans of all ages and Artists of all skill levels!

AND It’s 2 events in 1 great location!

Event 1: The Bat-Mania in the Cartoon Art Museum Lobby – Admission is FREE.
There will be several artists doing Batman and Batman related character sketches for free, Yes, I said FREE!
Donations to the Museum for these sketches is greatly appreciated but not required.
Also on hand assorted Awesome Batman “The Dark Night Rises”, Movie Posters, T-Shirts, Hats and other promotional goodies! (Quantities are limited).

Event 2: The InkDrinkDraw / CAM COMIC and ART FEST – $7.00 Admission.

Admission is $7.00 Adult (less for Students, Kids & Seniors)
For your $7 bucks you get the following:

(Info for artist who want to participate is at the bottom.)

1. Admission to the Cartoon Art Museum Galleries.
See tons of original comic and cartoon art including “Avengers Assemble” featuring Thor, Hulk, Iron Man and Captain America!

2. A Raffle Ticket for our Hourly Prize Raffle!
Get a chance to open one of our prize eggs, you could win comics, prints, artwork and more.
(You must be present to win prizes)

3. See loads of Live drawing by local artists!

4. Sketch-A-Thon North
Have an artist sketch something you something cool in exchange for a donation to the Museum.

5. ‘Super-Compact Pop-Up Boutique’
Loads of Original Art, Prints, Comics and more for sale!

6. Hourly Art related Demos!
Hourly Guest Artists include:
Brian Kolm (Snownan the Brave), Chloe Dalquist (Jamie the Trickster),
Chuck Whelon (Pewfell), character designer and Illustrator Karen Krajenbrink,
Michael Capozzola (“Surveillance Caricatures”), and George Webber (Pirate Fairies, Tiki Tales).

7. 15% discount at the Cartoon Art Museum Bookstore to anyone in Costume and to Artist who bring in their Portfolio/Sketchbook!

Woo, That’s a lot of stuff for $ 7.00 bucks!

* ARTIST, this is HOW YOU PARTICIPATE

- Sign-in at the Admission Desk and we will direct you to all the creative fun and action!

– Sketch-A-Thon North- We are looking for artists to donate some time ever hour to create drawings for donations that will go 100% to the museum. Paper and some tools will be provided, but artists can bring their favorite tools as well. Artists can sign-up for a time slots at the event.

– Art Table – Artist are welcome to bring their materials, create and display their final work on our movable Art Wall. It can be sold at any price the artist wants, but we require 10% of the sale to go to the museum.

– Super-Compact Pop-Up Boutique: Sell your Comics, Book, and Prints – We will have limited space at our pop-up Boutique Table to sell art and publications that you have created. We will have a volunteers on hand to monitor the table, but we are not responsible for damaged, lost or stolen items. Space is limited and first come, first served.

(All elements are subject to change and available space. schedule coming soon.)

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May
26
2012

Mini-Comic Day 2012 follow-up

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Mini-Comic issue 2012

Today I took part in the Mini-Comic Day challenge (http://www.minicomics.org/) that was held at the Cartoon Art Museum with the museum’s bookstore and inkDrinkDraw (both which I have relationships with). The goal was to write, draw and print a mini-comic by the end of the day.

Mini-Comics (and zines too) have been democratizing publishing since the 1970′s when copy machines were first introduced and all of a sudden we had new ways to cheaply produce a book of our own making. Even with the internet there is a power in a physical object that can be given, traded, and sold by anyone who want’s to make one. Anyone can make a comic and reproduce it for just a few cents to share it in a tangible way.

The challenge is you have all day to make a comic with the length, theme, media, etc up to the creators discretion.  We worked on our comics (including lunch breaks) from 11 am to around 5:30 pm with the standard length for all participants at 8 pages. My comic’s leed character is inspired by Bunraku puppets with their bulky bodies and tiny hands and feet. The title is translated by a web service and the characters loosely represent concepts like calm and relaxation.

Below is my final comic in convenient (flash based) format from issue.com. Notes on the challenge and creation follow below. Click the DIRECT LINK.

In the past week I have been thinking about what I wanted to draw for my comic and was inspired by Bunraku puppets with there bold proportions and personalities. I did some sketches ahead of time so when I did the challenge I could focus on telling a half-way decent tale. I also was inspired by a story I heard while at the Big Wow convention the previous weekend about an artist who did his rough layouts for his comic with a blue highlighter pen and then directly inked over them. I did some tests with the character I was thinking of using and the technique and found it intriguing so I decided to give it a try. About 2/3 of the comic was done this way.

testing drawing over blue highlighter pen

I got into the city and swung by Copy Central to copy some templates for the challenge today and then headed to the museum to set-up. By 11am artist were showing up and we started fairly right away with most artist using a template that was pre-printed. (note: we will have a PDF available on-line with the templates in the following weeks). Some artist worked with the smaller ‘pocket’ zine size while others did a quarter sized layout that broke a double sided 8.5″ x 11″ page, both ended up with 8 pages.

I knew that I was only going to get a fairly gag oriented story, so I started with a simple premise; the hero is trying to meditate and he gets attacked by the minions of an evil wizard. The layouts are drawn in either color-erase light blue or blue highlighter pen with most details being added with the pens I was using. The pages were drawn out of order for reading, but appropriate for when they would be cut and folded together.

Fun-fact: The design of the big-baddy creature at the end of the comic was inspired by a person dressed like a Carrot mascot outside while we were creating our comics.

That is all the info for now, but more will be on the way in the following weeks, so stay tuned for more.

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Apr
29
2012

2012-5-26 Mini-Comic day at the Cartoon Art Museum – Saturday May 26

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I am helping to organize a special inkDrinkDraw San Francisco event on Saturday May 26, 2012, Mini-Comic Day. The event is FREE and open to anyone interested in joining us.

WHEN: Saturday May 26, 2012 – 11am to 5:30pm
WHERE: The Cartoon Art Museum Bookstore
655 Mission St. San Francisco, CA 94105
(between 3rd street and New Montgomery St., two blocks from Montgomery St. BART) (415) CAR-TOON – http://www.cartoonart.org

COST: FREE!

DETAILS: Mini-Comic Day at the Cartoon Art Museum Bookstore
For the May inkDrinkDraw we will return to the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco for
Mini-Comic Day. Come join us and take the challenge to create and publish your own Mini-Comic with your fellow artists in a day or less. Paper, pens, pencils, and long neck stapler will be provided as well as printed templates to help make your book and there are two copy shops in walking
distance to make copies to trade and share with your fellow creators. (Sorry, you will have to pay for your own copies.)

From the official
site http://www.minicomics.org :
“On Mini-Comics Day, participating cartoonists from around the world will write, draw, and print copies of a mini-comic, completing the entire process from start to finish in a day or less. Anyone in the world can participate. Mini-comics have been democratizing the art of
making comic books since the 70?s or earlier… with the popularization of photocopiers, it became apparent that anyone with an inclination and some spare change could print a little comic book. Wildly varying in both form and content, mini-comics are a wonderful synthesis of cartooning and hand-made art objects.

Guidelines: To participate, create a mini-comic from start to finish on May 26th, 2012 (including writing, drawing and printing it). You can make your mini-comic by yourself or with other artists.
…” (visit the official site for more guidelines for the event)

So, come on down, grab a seat and make a comic. And don’t be shy about bringing down your mini-comics you have all ready made too!

The Two Copy Shops nearby are:

Copy Central 22 3rd street, San Francisco, CA 0.1 mi W (415) 882-7377 ? · copycentral.com - 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM

Fed-Ex Kinkos – need to verify location do to wonky web listings.

 

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Nov
23
2011

2011-12-03 Holiday CAM-Jam and Cartoonist Boutique at the Cartoon Art Museum – Dec 3rd

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Hey all, here it is the last of the CAM-JAM 2011 events I am organizing with the Bookstore at the Cartoon Art Museum and inkDrinkDraw San Francisco. The events this year have really been quite fantastic with the final results being Animation and Paper Toy Monsters! But for this one we will be using the inspiration of the new Wizard of Oz Comic exhibit at the museum to draw our version of the iconic characters as well as having a Cartoonist Boutique! The Cartoonist Boutique will allow museum guests to buy work directly from the artists as well as get customized Holiday Cards and Mini-Buttons. (more info below the poster image)

Holiday CAM-Jam 2011 and Cartoonist Art Boutique Dec 3rd

WHEN: Saturday December 3rd. 2011 12 noon to 5pm
WERE: Cartoon Art Museum – 655 Mission St. San Francisco CA
COST: FREE with admission to the museum

Brought to you by inkdrinkdraw.weebly.com

On Saturday December 3rd, 2011 the Bookstore at the Cartoon Art Museum and InkDrinkDraw San Francisco will present the Holiday Cam-Jam and Cartoonist Art Boutique. The Cam-Jams are a series of artist collaborative events that happen a few times of year, but this December a new element is added…our Art Boutique.

Guests visiting the museum will have the chance to watch artist creating work inspired both by the winter holidays as well as the new Wizard of Oz comic exhibit. A selection of great holiday gifts will be for sale directly from their creators including:

- The premier of the first anthology from InkDrinkDraw SF
- One-of-a-kind Holiday Cards and buttons made while you wait
- Personalized comic books, prints, cards and more!

Another bonus is the artist-in-residence Kraig Rasmussen (www.monkeygong.com) will be located in the museum’s lobby signing his books and demonstrating how he creates his work from 1pm to 3pm.

So come on down between 12 noon and 5:00 pm and check out the current exhibits (Archie 70th and Wizard of Oz) while meeting some very talented artists and celebrate the season cartoon-style.

 

ARTIST:
Artist wishing to participate in the CAM-Jam can sign-up by contacting me at the links below or showing up at the day of the event. Participating artist get free admission into the museum.

Artist wishing to sell some of their home grown items need to contact me by December 2nd, 2011.

We will be making custom cards and buttons to sell to guests, but a donation for materials will be required with a sale.

Contact info: staff (AT) atomicbearpress.com or DM at https://twitter.com/#!/AtomicBearPress

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Sep
09
2011

CAM-JAM 2011 #2 this Sunday Sept 11, 2011 at the Cartoon Art Museum 11:30-5:00

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Once again I am helping organized another CAM-Jam with InkDrinkDraw San Francisco and the Bookstore at the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco CA. Were calling it our Spectacular Super Sonic Paper Monster Party X. The theme will be making Paper Toy Monsters from basic shape constructed of card stock and decorated to add details the models do not have. See below for all the details or visit

CAMJAM 2011 #2 Paper Monster Party

 

Where we meet next:
InkDrinkDraw presents:
Spectacular Super Sonic PAPER MONSTER PARTY X

Location: Cartoon Art Museum
655 Mission St. San Francisco, CA http://www.cartoonart.org
Date: Sunday September 11, 2011
Time: 11:30am to 5:00 pm
Being an artist can be a solitary job, so we want to find a way to meet more like minded artists who are interested in Comics, Animation, Illustration, Video Games and more! After all what’s better than to meet, talk and network with people who “get” what you do as a creative!

For our September InkDrinkDraw SF Meet we have teamed up with the Bookstore at the Cartoon Art Museum for another of their CAM-JAM events aimed at artists of all levels.
In the past we done everything from create animation to draw full mini-comics and even designed a tarot deck, but this session we will be having
a Spectacular Super Sonic PAPER MONSTER PARTY X.

In last few years some new type of art forms have appeared, making customized toys with artistic flair. For us we will be cutting, folding and customizing simple paper shapes into characters, embracing the limitations and letting our imaginations go wild.

Participating artist can sign in at the front desk and then you will be able to come in and have some fun with us. Planning on coming, why not RSVP to us or to the Museum’s Bookstore at bookstore@cartoonart.org.

Note:
We are asking for a $2 donation from participating artists to help pay for the
materials (as well as some treats and surprises) The museums full admission is required for anyone who is not participating.

“Paper Monster/character creation”
Come Cut, Fold and customize characters of paper and… maybe even with other materials. We will have plenty of blank, pre-printed shapes to use and will have some coloring tools too, but feel free to bring your own materials if you like and even your own customization projects.

“Share and Tell”
Bring your current projects, copies of your comics and art prints and share with us and even visiting guests to the museum.

“More monsters and open projects”
Come and just sit with us and draw and create all sorts of monsters and creatures or even just work on your own projects.

(While It’s not “required” to participate in any of these particular activities, we’ll have them on hand if you wish too.)

“Open Projects”
As always “Open Projects” is working on whatever project you brough with you, want to try or are currently working on.
Please feel free to discuss your projects with the group! We love hearing about what people are working on and will gladly give feedback!

To stay in touch you can:
On Twitter Follow:
@inkDrinkDraw or @NoCashComics & @AtomicBearPress

Read the inkDrinkDraw
Blog at inkDrinkDraw.weebly.com

Hope to see you there!

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