Category Archive: Drawing

Nov
13
2011

New Art – Spooky Pirate, Super Spooks

Some Halloween drawings from last month. Watercolor, pencil, sharpie pen.

Ghost Pirate sketch 10-2011

Super Spook sketches 10-2011

Oct
31
2011

Happy Halloween everyone! Boo!

pumpkins 2011

Hope everyone has a great Halloween!

Aug
25
2011

New watercolor: Wood Nymph

wood Nymph 8-2011

Watercolor on off-white card stock.

Aug
24
2011

New Watercolor: Troll Baseball?

troll Baseball 8-2011

Watercolor painting of a Troll in a baseball pose.

Aug
24
2011

InkDrinkDraw August re-cap – Face drawing challengs

The other night we had the second InkDrinkDraw event in San Francisco. The events are the brain child of George Webber (No Cash Comics) and myself and are monthly artist events that encourage creativity and comradery.

To find out more, visit the InkDrinkDraw page!

For this month’s meeting our theme was drawing faces. As artist it can be easy to end up drawing similar characters over and over again. These exercises were designed for us to work outside our comfort zone and try new things.

We started with a warm-up exercises where we drew a page of shapes and then passed them around and had others make them into faces/heads.

Here is the sheet that I got back after everyone had drawn on it:

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Then we did a handout that George found through Deviant-Art called 25 expressions which is a popular meem. DOWNLOAD IT HERE There are other versions of the sheet on-line, but with facial expressions in more Manga (Japaneses Comics) vibe.

Here is an old west prospector characters that I drew based on the head-shape sketch by Jeff Plotkin.

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Next we changed gears and did an exercises of evolving/devolving a character based on a photo. This was something I saw in How to draw comic book heroes and villains by Christopher Hart , but the samples were actually drawn by the late great comic artist Gray Morrow. See more of Gray’s work HERE.

My first attempt was using a photo of classic actor ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle which I sketched on my paper and then worked to modify it till there was still a hint of the character, but maybe not obvious unless someone was looking for similarity. I like the result, even though the drawings are kind of rough and lopsided.

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Here are a few more I did…

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Last I did a few more drawings based on the Shape Heads that were drawn on my sheet at the start.

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These ones below were drawn riding BART home from the city.

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Want to give the exercises a try? Here is what we did.

1) Shape-Heads: Each artist participating drew some basic shapes on a sheet of paper. Hearts, stars, rectangles, squares, circles, ovals, wedges, etc. Pass around the sheets of paper and have different artists make the shapes into faces. For ours artist did more then one per sheet sometimes and the artist who drew the shapes also added a few as needed.

2) 25 Facial Expressions: Next we picked a Shape-Head from (1) or had someone else pick one for us. We then filled in a pre-printed handout that was labeled with all the expressions to draw. It’s OK to draw hands and bodies in the shot too. DOWNLOAD HANDOUT HERE.

3) Face Evolution/Devolution: Take a sheet of paper and some photo reference and draw on the Left side one of the faces, trying to capture a decent likeness of the person. Moving to the Right take the head you just drew as reference and modify it into a new character by changing some details. Then draw one or more heads just using the second drawing you did and trying to make it into something new.

4) Take your Shape-Heads and try to draw them again with a body, different expression, etc.

Aug
09
2011

SDCC 2011 part 4: My artwork I created

As you know from my previous posts, I participated in the Cartoon Art Museum’s Sketch-A-Thon at the SDCC2011.

Most of the time we created original art for a donation to the Museum for an individual, but sometimes we did drawings that were just examples while waiting for a customer. A few of mine that did not sell I was able to borrow from the Cartoon Art Museum to Scan and return.

YOU can buy a drawing if it’s still available for a donation of $10+ (plus shipping and handling if needed) and all proceeds go to the Cartoon Art Museum.

All characters are © there respective owners and these are only done as fan tributes and not for reproduction.

I did a few drawings that were “Kick Butt” version of Disney Princesses. This one is Princess Tiana from the “Princess and the Frog” who I saw as a warrior with voodoo powers. (below) To see my version of Belle from “Beauty and the Beast” visit my previous post.

sdcc2011 - kick butt princess "Tiana"

Another Disney character I drew is the mysterious Hat Box Ghost which was a character in the famous Haunted Mansion attraction at Disneyland. The character did not last long in the ride and was removed shortly after it opened making it a mystery that the fans love. Me too.

sdcc2011 - Hat Box Ghost

The last piece of art is my version of DC Comics Superman as a steam punk hero.
sdcc2011 - Steam Punk Superman

Jul
16
2011

follow-up: Schulz Museum – Cartooning 101 – July 11-15, 2011

Sample arts and photos from the class I taught this last week at the Schulz Museum July 11-15, 2011. Click for a larger image.

Cartooning 101 - Schulz Museum, Santa Rosa CA - student work

Here are my drawings I did while teaching as well.

Cartooning 101 - Schulz Museum, Santa Rosa CA - art by Brian Kolm

Jun
03
2011

Warrior gal sketch

A rough exercises on designing and rendering a drawing with out line work (if possible). Inspired by the work of the super talented Chris Samnee http://www.chrissamnee.com/. Rendered in black watercolor over blue pencils.

warrior gal

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