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These critters are drawn on blank Sketch Cards at the Image Comic Expo this past March 2012. I think they may lead to something else, but I am not sure what.
Category Archive: Cartoon
May
22
2012
New Art! Critter sketch cards drawn at the Image Comic Expo 2012
May
10
2012
New Art! Tribute to Mobius
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I have been a big fan of the master French comic artist Mobius (aka Jean Giraud) since my college days where I was inspired by his style, technique and color use. With his recent passing I thought I would, like so many around the world, draw a tribute to the master.
My piece is based on Mobius 1985 “Starwatcher II” which many have been doing their version of in the last few years. To read more I would recommend the Tumbler Blog ‘Quenched Consciousness’ which has been my favorite place to follow the work of Mobius.
Visit the official Mobius website http://www.moebius.fr/
May
09
2012
Cartoon Boot Camp – Comic Book Creation
Promotional illustration for my Cartoon Boot Camp class at the Cartoon Art Museum: Comic Book Creation.
The class runs the week of July 9 to 13, 2012.
Sign up at: cartoonart.org/2012/04/cartoon-boot-camp-summer-2012/
May
09
2012
Cartoon Boot Camp 2012 – into to Stop-Motion Animation artwork
Promotional illustration for my Cartoon Boot Camp class at the Cartoon Art Museum- Intro to Stop-Motion Animation.
The class runs the week of June 11 to 15, 2012.
Sign up at: cartoonart.org/2012/04/cartoon-boot-camp-summer-2012
May
09
2012
Cartoon Boot Camp 2012 – Character Creation: Superheroes promo illustration
Promotional illustration for my Cartoon Boot Camp class at the Cartoon Art Museum – Character Creation: Superheroes.
The class runs the week of June 4 to 8, 2012.
Sign up at: cartoonart.org/2012/04/cartoon-boot-camp-summer-2012/
Apr
21
2012
Motion Comic Magic- the Blue Dog
A post on re-purposing comics and illustration into animation
Time for a little “Practice-what-I-preach.” I have been posting examples of re-purpose artwork (comics, illustrations, photos) for animation for a while, but I have not posted much in the ways of my own animation. I do cartoons and illustrations, but also do some work with motion graphics and animation as well. In fact I am teaching a motion-graphics/animation workshop at a youth center in San Francisco currently.
My latests project was a promo for my workshop starting a Blue Dog I drew while teaching a cartooning workshop the youth center I work at. Here is a sample of the final animation…
Blue Dog test animation from Brian Kolm on Vimeo.
The animation above is a mixture of different techniques in Adobe After Effects (I am using CS4).
- Puppet Tool
- Liquefier
- Parented Objects
- Nested Compositions
- gg_puppet tools script to help automate coding the null layers to control the puppet pins on the figure.
And here is the original art…
I would be happy to post more description on how I achieved it if anyone is interested. Just let me know.
Apr
21
2012
NEW ART! People based on animals.
Pencil drawings of human characters mostly based on animals.
Apr
21
2012
NEW ART! Blue and gold superhero.
Brush and ink drawing with digital coloring.
