Category Archive: Digital Coloring

Apr
13
2011

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 with 3D shapes, facial expressions, costumes, action poses, and how to take the knowledge and use it to create characters that are all your own.”

Kids on Campus – Summer Camp 2011
Weeks of June 20-24 and June 27-July 1

Sign-up at: www.chabotcollege.edu/comed/kidsoncampus/kidsoncampus2010/

Drawing Star Wars and Beyond at Chabot College Kids on Campus 2011

Mar
04
2011

Cartoon Boot Camp 2011 this Summer at the Cartoon Art Museum

Cartoon Boot Camp 2011

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.

Feb
27
2011

NEW art! Dancing Devil

devil 2-2011
Click above for a bigger image at Flickr.com

A watercolor painting with digital color and editing of a dancing devil.

Feb
16
2011

New Art! Robot Detective Kenji

Robot Detective Kenji  2011

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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 red blazer and yellow cap with so much style.

I have drawn Robot Detective Kenji before, but just realized that the images posted here had gotten lost when the website was upgraded a few years ago since the drawings are from 2008. Here they are.

robot-detective 2008Click for a larger image on Flickr.com


robot-detective-painting 2008Click for a larger image on Flickr.com

Feb
12
2011

3d Animation Experiments

a post on Motion Comic Magic

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 a simple boat model travels over the surface as it distorts. Kind of long and boring I know, but it was a good learning experience. The sky was added in after the fact in after effects.

The next tests were from a tutorial as well where I made a simple tree and added leaves that were simple 2D images. It looks pretty good, even close-up due too distorting the flat images of leaves to be curved and bent.

This time it’s just one tree on a hill…

Here is a simulation of shapes that act like they are silk streamers…

And last, but not least a simple snow scene where the buildings are simple shapes with digital artwork for the details.

Jan
16
2011

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

Shazam/captain Marvel 1-13-2011

(you can click below for a bigger image at Flickr)

Dec
23
2010

New Art — Oh Christmas Tree

Merry Christmas 2010

Dec
20
2010

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 it would be fun to post some of them as we lead up to the start of the New Year. So come back every day and see whats been posted.

So we’ll start with some humor and whimsy…

Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year from Brian Kolm and Atomic Bear Press

pen and ink drawing with digital color

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