Category Archive: Cartoon

May
22
2012

New Art! Critter sketch cards drawn at the Image Comic Expo 2012

Image Expo 2012 critters
Click for a bigger image at Flickr.com

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.

May
10
2012

New Art! Tribute to Mobius

 mobius tributeClick here to see a bigger image at Flickr.com

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

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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

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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

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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…
3-2012 blue dog (link to animation too)

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.

3-2012 people that look like animals

Pencil drawings of human characters mostly based on animals.

Apr
21
2012

NEW ART! Blue and gold superhero.

3-10-2012 Superhero

Brush and ink drawing with digital coloring.

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