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NEW ART – Celebrating the Year of the Dragon.

Hope everyone is having a wondrous Lunar New Year!

NEW ART! – McRabbit

This is a drawing I did in one of my cartooning classes that I teach where I was showing the kids how I inked a drawing over blue pencil lines. For the inking I used both a brush pen and some sharpies of different widths. I also liked the art enough to give is some …

A special holiday greeting from me to you

A very Merry Christmas and a Happy Holiday to everyone no matter how/what/where you celebrate. Every year I have illustrated an original Christmas card for my family to send to family and friends. The earliest Christmas cards we would make were silk screened and my father took my art and cut it by hand into …

Happy Halloween everyone! Boo!

Hope everyone has a great Halloween!

‘Brian Kolm: Portfolio 2007-2011′ now avalible through Blurb.com

I wanted to find a unique way to show samples of my artwork that would stand out, so I decided to create a hard-cover book that I could use at conventions and professional meetings. The book features samples of my artwork from 2007-2011 including illustrations and personal work. The books are Print On Demand through …

2011/6/20 Chabot College Kids on Campus summer classes

I will be returning to Chabot College for this years Kids on Campus in Hayward Ca. I will be teaching… June 20-24: Cartooning: Monsters & Critters June 27-July 1: Cartooning: Star Wars Art

2011/5/22 Announcing: CAM-JAM 2011 – Sun May 22, 2011 at the Cartoon Art Museum/

I will be representing the Cartoonist Conspiracy San Francisco in organizing a third year of CAM-JAM events with the Cartoon Art Museum Bookstore. The event is on Sunday May 22, 2011 from 11am to 5pm and the theme will be ANIMATION. Yes, you heard that right! Our challenge will be to produce 30 seconds of …

New Art-’Cartooning: Monsters & Critters’ at Chabot College Kids on Campus 2011

I will be teaching again this Summer at Chabot College in Hayward CA for the Kids on Campus summer program. Cartooning: Monsters & Critters Whether it’s a graceful unicorn, a slithering dragon or a more modern beast, we have been telling stories of fanciful creatures of all sorts since the beginning of time. This class …

New Art-’Star Wars art (and beyond)’ at Chabot College Kids on Campus 2011

I will be teaching again this Summer at Chabot College in Hayward CA for the Kids on Campus summer program. Cartooning: Star Wars Art (and beyond) This class helps you to create your own Space characters by learning to first draw characters from the Star Wars universe. The class will teach skills like constructing figures …

Cartoon Boot Camp 2011 this Summer at the Cartoon Art Museum

I will be teaching Cartoon Boot Camp for the 5th year in a row at the Cartoon Art Museum June 6-10, June 13-17, and June 20-24. More details coming very soon.

NEW art! Dancing Devil

Click above for a bigger image at Flickr.com A watercolor painting with digital color and editing of a dancing devil.

New Art! Robot Detective Kenji

Click for a larger image on Flickr.com I guess posting 6 images of rabbits 6 days in a row is enough and it’s time for something a little different. I love the ‘silly’ yet so retro cool Japanese Metal Hero Robot Detective K from a 1973 TV show. How many robots can wear a bright …

3d Animation Experiments

I have been playing with Blender 3D, the open source (i.e. FREE) software. I mostly have been playing with techniques that could be used with 2D animation or Motion Comics. So here we go… This was based on a tutorial I found where a 3d ground surface was made to roll like the waves and …

New Art: Captain Marvel! Shazam!

A quick Ink and Brush drawing drawn at the Cartoonist Conspiracy SF Comic Jam on 1-13-2011 and digitally colored on 1-15-11. The Captain is 70 this year and Newsarama is doing a series of articles on his past, present and future. www.newsarama.com/topic/an-oral-history-of-captain-marvel (you can click below for a bigger image at Flickr)

New Art — Oh Christmas Tree

New Art: Even Santa needs a bit of help…

I have not posted in a while and thought it was high-time to do, especially with the Christmas Holiday upon us later this week and the very end of the year a week later. I always do a bunch of Christmas Card designs every year and this year was no different and I was thinking …

New Art> Punk Santa!

Happy Holidays.

new art> Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope that everyone has an enjoyable day today!

new art> Batman!

Move to Trash Just a quick brush and ink drawing of Batman done last month (October 2010) with some color in the ol’ Photoshop. Batman ©DC comics

Watercolor to Digital color studies.

In one of my teaching gig’s I get to do some art myself and have been doing some small watercolor landscapes (here and here) that could be color studies for a bigger future project. After scanning them in to the computer, I thought I would see if I could do a super simple digital version …