Tag Archive: challenge

Apr
29
2012

2012-5-26 Mini-Comic day at the Cartoon Art Museum – Saturday May 26

I am helping to organize a special inkDrinkDraw San Francisco event on Saturday May 26, 2012, Mini-Comic Day. The event is FREE and open to anyone interested in joining us.

WHEN: Saturday May 26, 2012 – 11am to 5:30pm
WHERE: The Cartoon Art Museum Bookstore
655 Mission St. San Francisco, CA 94105
(between 3rd street and New Montgomery St., two blocks from Montgomery St. BART) (415) CAR-TOON – http://www.cartoonart.org

COST: FREE!

DETAILS: Mini-Comic Day at the Cartoon Art Museum Bookstore
For the May inkDrinkDraw we will return to the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco for
Mini-Comic Day. Come join us and take the challenge to create and publish your own Mini-Comic with your fellow artists in a day or less. Paper, pens, pencils, and long neck stapler will be provided as well as printed templates to help make your book and there are two copy shops in walking
distance to make copies to trade and share with your fellow creators. (Sorry, you will have to pay for your own copies.)

From the official
site http://www.minicomics.org :
“On Mini-Comics Day, participating cartoonists from around the world will write, draw, and print copies of a mini-comic, completing the entire process from start to finish in a day or less. Anyone in the world can participate. Mini-comics have been democratizing the art of
making comic books since the 70?s or earlier… with the popularization of photocopiers, it became apparent that anyone with an inclination and some spare change could print a little comic book. Wildly varying in both form and content, mini-comics are a wonderful synthesis of cartooning and hand-made art objects.

Guidelines: To participate, create a mini-comic from start to finish on May 26th, 2012 (including writing, drawing and printing it). You can make your mini-comic by yourself or with other artists.
…” (visit the official site for more guidelines for the event)

So, come on down, grab a seat and make a comic. And don’t be shy about bringing down your mini-comics you have all ready made too!

The Two Copy Shops nearby are:

Copy Central 22 3rd street, San Francisco, CA 0.1 mi W (415) 882-7377 ? · copycentral.com - 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM

Fed-Ex Kinkos – need to verify location do to wonky web listings.

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Jan
25
2009

12×6 Comic Challenge -session 1 results

by Brian

Well from 10:30 am to 10:30 pm today I did my first attempt at my 12×6 Comic Challenge. The idea is to do a 12 comic pages in 12 hours jam six times (giving a 72 page graphic novella). So today I tried to do 12 pages in 12 hours that will be part of a final 72 pages that will be done at the end of June.

The story starts with the diminutive circus strong man, Ollie being rescued by his sister, Tess who has been looking for him for many years. At the small train station they catch a train along with a short older women and well dress gentleman. Things start to get odd when the old women goes to the back of the train and rings a bell. This leads to the train stopping with a large man standing in the tracks….

I will post final art when it’s ready. Encouragement is always appreciated.

The result: I did not get as much done as I would have liked. When I did the 2008 24HCBD challenge I really did well I feel, but today the results were hardly finished. This might have been for a few reasons…

- I have been thinking up ideas for the comic all week, all the while trying not to plan in my head the comic too much. Trying to live up to what was in my head is possibly a problem.

- Take the time to design the characters in some detail before you draw the character. It was hard to jump into inking with confidence when your drawings of characters very in look and proportion.

- If you really want to get it done in time: less characters, simple setting. I had 6 characters.

- Try hard not to be a perfectionist.

- I added 4 additional pages to make the story work.

- Some materials were hard to find since I did not get organized ahead of time. In my case a small brush.

- I had a week of sickness, a friends memorial service, and a parent in the hospital.

What did work:

- If your stuck, work on something else. When I found that I was too worried about the inking to do a good job I switch to drawings the panel boarders.

- Rough out at least the start and end of the story and work on those first, then fill in the gaps. This worked well, though I did add some pages (16 in all).

- Avoiding realism.

- Have templates made ahead of time.

- Remember that it’s only the first part of a bigger project and there’s time to learn and to catch up.

Final result: Basic character designs. Chapter 1 (16 pages) fully plotted, penciled, panel boarders drawn, and inking started. I plan to work on it more in the coming weeks.

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Jan
20
2009

My 12×6 comic challenge

by Brian

I have a project I plan to do this year staring next weekend (Sun Jan 25, 2009)…the 12×5 Comic Challenge. I really want to create more artwork and do more projects this year and I figured one way to do that would be to make a challenge for myself.

I really liked the results of my 24HCBD comic (see it here: http://atomicbearpress.com/2008/11/11/team-sonic-x-page-1-and-2/) and wanted to take what I learned and keep moving forward.

The idea is that I will do a 12 comic pages in TWELVE hour jam SIX times. I.E. 12×6=72 pages. That will give me a graphic novella that will be drawn by the San Diego Comic-Con.

My rules are:

- Do draw the comic at some other location away from home if possible. Less distractions make is easier to do.

- Do the first 12 page jam as a stand alone story.

- After the first 12×6 challenge you can work on the project in-between, but you still have to do all 6 challenges. The idea is to do more projects and more art after all.

- Like 24HCBD, don’t write the story ahead of time or make big plans. But do plan themes and gernÃ©s ahead of time and think up general ideas.

- Production work can be done after/in-between the 12hr jams. The important thing is to produce 12 pages of art on each jam.

- Do post the art on-line.

- Do invite other artist to join in the fun.

- Do dedicate the story to someone that matters to you if possible.

- Do reschedule if you can not do the jam when planned.

The only issue I have now is to find a place to do the jam and get figure out how big to create the art. Since my father is having some serious health problems, I might need to do the challenge at home.

I all ready know what ideas and concepts I want to use, but I will not state them encase I decided to change them.

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Aug
01
2008

50 Pirates challenges

by Brian

OK, I am on vacation following my swell time at the SDCC08. I have been taking advantage of some free time to do some drawing exercises. This one involved drawing the heads of 50 pirates.

I will replace with a scans when I arrive home.