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Tag: art

Sep 12

The Totoro Forest Project at the Cartoon Art Museum

The Cartoon Art Museum has a multi-faceted art exhibit coming up starting on September 20th. The show will actually appear in segments with the fist one opening in a week. So by December the show will encompass 1/3 to 1/2 of the museum. The art work was created as part of a fund raiser for …

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Sep 04

Silicon 2008 Color WIP images

Here are some of the WIP color images I am doing for Silicon 2008. What do you guys think. art ©2008 Silicon

Sep 03

Update: the end of summer.

Labor day weekend has come and gone which, for many, signals the end of the Summer season. Of late my blogging has gotten more sparse, so I have lots of catch up with news of my projects and cartooning classes (instead of just posting random art and interesting links). I know that folks like to …

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Aug 22

Recent artwork 8-22-08

OK folks, here is some new art I have done. These were done in watercolor, then photoshoped for cleanup and color. I have been trying to work more graphically, inspired by the work of Michael Cho. He does his inks as shading, but not outlines per-say and then uses flat color to help shape the …

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Aug 13

Recent paintings

Hey all, here are some recent paintings I did. Enjoy. The first one was inspired by the work of this artist, though it might not look like it. I started with a sketch in orange and then I did the lines on top. This watercolor painting is from the Southwest Airline magazine I got on …

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Jul 19

Zine Fest this weekend (July 19-20, 2008)

I will be at the Zine Fest this afternoon. Last night I saw a special tie-in event at the Cartoon Art Museum where the artist read there comics aloud to projected art. What a great way to get ready for a comic show of unique voices. I will probably be hanging around with the talented …

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Jun 29

Congratulations to Boot-Campers from week 1 and 2

This is just a shout out to my students from the first two weeks of Cartoon Boot Camp at the Cartoon Art Museum. As you might have seen here at the blog, the first week’s Character Creation Camp yielded many fantastic characters. Congratulations to: Joey, Len, Rachel, Clare, Decklan, Turo, Olin, Adam, Johnny, and Keevan. …

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Jun 09

Captain Scurvy

My friend Richard Becker gave me this awesome picture for my birthday in April. I just got the chance to scan the art and place it on-line. Captain Scurvy appears in fully painted comic strips in Pirate Magazine. art ©2008 Richard Becker