Warm-up daily sketches
Drawn with a Pentell Brush Pen
I am going to be selling some of these at Wondercon on April 1-3, 2011
or contact me to buy one of them now. There small 4″x5.5″
Tag Archive: Cartoon
Mar
04
2011
Dec
06
2010
Tomorrow cartoonist holiday boutique Tue Dec 7 and Dec 14, 2010 at the Cartoon Art Museum 4pm to 7pm
I will be in the Cartoon Art Museum tomorrow Tuesday December 6th as well as a week later on Tuesday December 14th from 4pm to 7pm while the bookstore is open later for holiday shopping. I will be joined by artists Kraig Rasmussen, George Webber and Michael Capozzola. We will have all sorts of cool stuff for gift giving for sale so come on down an say HI. The bookstore is also open till 7pm so you can get some of the most unique gifts imaginable.
The Cartoon Art Museum is at 655 Mission St. in San Francisco CA. LINK
Sep
08
2010
Meet me at the Schulz Museum this upcoming Saturday Sept 11, 2010 from 1-3 and other stuff happening
Hey all, just a reminder I will be at the Sketch-A-Thon at the Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa CA this Saturday Sept 11, 2010 from 1-3. I will be doing sketches and chatting with anyone who comes on by.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 ? 1–3pm
Cartoonist Sketch-A-Thon Celebrates 60 Years!
Celebrate 60 years of Peanuts with Bizarro creator Dan Piraro and over a dozen other guest cartoonists. From 1–3pm visitors can meet, watch, and talk to a variety of guest cartoonists including Dan Piraro, All Over Coffee creator Paul Madonna, digital caricaturist Rhoda Draws, animator Mike Gray, and more. Cartoonists will speak with visitors, share and demonstrate their work and sketch something for the Schulz Museum’s collection.
At 3:30pm, Dan Piraro will give a presentation and speak about his work. Piraro recently won the Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year.
Sketch-A-Thon cartoonists include:
Brent Anderson
Michael Capozzola
Rhoda Draws
Alexis Fajardo
Brian Fies
Shaenon Garrity
Mike Gray
Debbie Huey
Greg Knight
Jonathan Lemon
Paul Madonna
Brian Narelle
Thien Pham
Lark Pien
Dan Piraro
Frank Roberson
Brian Kolm
also…mark your calendars…
September 9: Cartoonist Conspiracy SF comic jam at the Borderland Cafe on Valencia St. 6:30 to about 9. All artists are welcome.
September 19: In gallery demo and activity at the Cartoon Art Museum (more info coming up)
September 23: Cartoonist Conspiracy SF comic jam at the Borderland Cafe on Valencia St. 6:30 to about 9. All artists are welcome.
October 2-3: 24 Hour Comic Book Day in San Francisco. I will be participating, will you?
October 10: Tarot Art Jam at the Cartoon Art Museum (more info coming up)
October 14: Cartoonist Conspiracy SF comic jam at the Borderland Cafe on Valencia St. 6:30 to about 9. All artists are welcome.
October 23: Family Day at the Cartoon Art Museum. I will be demoing and and supervising art activities. (more info coming up)
October 28: Cartoonist Conspiracy SF comic jam at the Borderland Cafe on Valencia St. 6:30 to about 9. All artists are welcome.
Jun
25
2010
Cartoon Boot Camp 2010 (week 2) Drawing Mythical Beasts
Well, what a week it’s been. I can’t believe how great Cartoon Boot Camp at the Cartoon Art Museum is this year. Lots of new things happening and lots of new faces too. I am amazed at the skill that these young folks have.
This week was drawings Mystical Mythical Magical Beasts and it was a big challenge since we were drawing more realistic style animals.
A big shout out has to go to my support: Chris Conroy, Benjy Wachter and Nomi Kane as well as the director of the museums educational program and the staff.
I decided that the best way to show off the work of the students is a video slide show. The 11 kids did so much work and this was the best way to show it off.
I also got to create an animated intro for the slide show too, which was done with Chris Conroy. I did the 3D model, animation and compositing and Chris did a series of pencil drawings that I used as texture maps and 2D ‘cut-outs.’ The 3D work was done in Blender 3D, using the export plug-in to bring it into After Effects where the other elements were added. I am really pleased at how it came out.
The music is by Kevin MacLeod who licenses’ it for free through the Creative Commons. by http://incompetech.com/
The examples on the slide-show feature drawing exercises and challenges as well as the students final drawing of creature they invented themselves.
as a bonus here is a better version of the intro animation I produced for the slide show.
Mystical Mythical Magical Beasties opening animation from Brian Kolm on Vimeo.
Mar
23
2010
The Road to Wondercon 2010 part 1
We’ll folks, Wondercon 2010 will be upon us in 11 days and I can’t wait. That is, I am excited and also nervous. Nervous because I will be working on some new items and ideas for the convention and excited for pretty much the same reasons. Of course I am excited too for all the awesome friends I will see, the cool new products, the colorful costumes and all the fun and energy the convention provides.
First off, you should know that I can be found in Artist Alley at table AA 48. To help you I have made this spiffy map (below).
hint: click for a bigger image.
This year I will be focusing on art and art prints with the classic comics for sale as well. (all info is subject to change)
- A set of mystery color prints that will feature some new watercolor paintings.
- The last of the limited edition sketchbook from 2008 which features a role playing game theme and included a custom “black and blue” sketch.
- The 25 Penguin prints in both color and the color it yourself print editions.
- Commissioned monochrome and color wash art. Full size, in your sketchbook or on a sketchcard. It’s all good and all one-of-a-kind.
- A new free postcard when you visit the table.
- Classic Comics
- get a sneak peek at some new comic projects in progress as well.
- FREE Easter Treats on Easter Sunday!
All for now, but more info will be on the way–Stay Tooned!
Sep
12
2009
September 19, 2009 Talk Like a Pirate Day
I will be a guest artist at the Cartoon Art Museum Bookstore for Talk Like a Pirate Day on Saturday September 19, 2009. I will be on hand drawing pirates for the 100 pirate challenge as well as selling my books and chatting with guests. Plus I might be in costume too. The event is Free (does not included admission to the museum) so come and join us.
The bookstore will be giving a 10% discount for anyone in costume!
I will be on hand from 11am to 12am and from 3:15pm to 5:30pm.
BTW: the artwork for the event is by me as well. ©2009 Brian Kolm
Jul
12
2009
Taste of Tooning at the Schulz Museum report
I just want to give a shout out to all the students who made my class, a Taste of Tooning (July 6-10,2009) at the Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa CA a great time. I will look forward to returning next spring and/or summer.
Thanks to thanks museum staff Jeff, Jessica, Cherie for making the class go so smoothly.
Thanks to Sean Simons who is teaching the upcoming animation classes at the museum and who helped on Stop-Motion day. Check out his work at: http://www.bigseansimons.com/
Thanks to artist Peter Swehla who helped me teach on Friday and drew the characters from his comic Steam Soldiers. www.comicbookchallenge.com/pitch.php?id=2838
Click to view the images below bigger.
Jun
26
2009
Cartoon Boot Camp: Story Board to Animatic follow up.
Today was the last day of Cartoon Boot Camp: Storyboard to Animatic at the Cartoon Art Museum. I had a class of 10 kids who all work hard to create storyboard drawings which I then made into an animatic. An animatic (or Lycra Reel or Pre-Visualization) is a technique that was first used by animation studios like Disney to create a simulation of what a finished film would look like before spending time and money to produced finished footage. Now most productions do storyboards and animatics too so they can get an idea of what their production will look like. Some even go so far as to do simple computer animations in 3D to figure out complex action scenes.
You can see all the museums videos on YOUTUBE here.
Enjoy.
