Tag Archive: illustration

Aug
13
2011

2011/8/22 SF Artist meet-up: InkDrinkDraw Mon August 22, 2011

My buddy George Webber (No Cash Comics) and I are planning another InkDrinkDraw artist get together for Monday August 22, 2011 at the Church St. Cafe, starting at 6:30pm. This is a chance for Bay Area/San Francisco artist who are interesting in Cartooning, Comics, Illustration, Animation and similar art forms to meet up, hang out, network, work and create. The last meet-up two months ago at Hooters San Francisco was a blast, and this location is easier to get too as well.

The cafe is an old favorite being a former location for the Cartoonist Conspiracy SF to meet and is lively and fun.

Below is the press release from the official blog:

LOCATION UPDATE !

Hello Everyone,

From George Webber / NoCashComics & Brian Kolm of AtomicBearPress !

OK, so here’s the FINAL inkDrinkDraw Meet-up UPDATE !!!

SF Pizzeria could not accommodate our meeting this time around, SO .. New Location ….

LOCATION:
Church St Cafe (260 Church St – between 15th St & Market St – San Francisco, CA94114 (Neighborhood: Castro)

http://www.yelp.com/biz/church-street-cafe-san-francisco

DATE:
August 22nd

TIME:
6:30 to Whenever (10 / 10:30 most likely)

HERE’S WHAT WILL BE HAPPENING:
Being an artist can be a solitary job, so we want to find a way to meet more like minded artists who are interested in Comics, Animation, Illustration, Video Games and more! After all what’s better than to meet, talk and network with people who “get” what you do as a creative!

(While It’s not “required” to participate in any of these particular activities, we’ll have them on hand if you wish too.)

“Meet & Greet with a Nosh”
Come on by and hang out with other artists, talk shop, share what your working on and have some food and drinks too !
The Church St Cafe has nice sandwiches, cookies & coffee, but you might want to have dinner before hand and have desert at Church St Cafe as they don’t have big dinner type meals.

“Working with Faces”
It seems that one of the major challenges with many artists is being able to draw a unique cast of characters without drawing the same character over and over again with just minor differences, so we came up with a few different challenges having to do with drawing faces.

There is NO simple smiley face drawings in these challenges (try one or all of them):
1. “25 Character Expressions” challenge.
2. “Book of Faces” challenge.
3. “iPhone Face Off” challenge for those with nerves of steel.

ALSO feel free to bring some photos of faces that you would like to share with the group as we work to increase our mental database.

“Working with Copic Markers Demos”
George Webber be geared up to do his Copic Demo for anyone that wants to learn about these markers and he’ll have some extra markers on hand for people to try them out a little.

“Open Projects”
As always “Open Projects” is working on whatever project you brought with you, want to try or are currently working on.
Please feel free to discuss your projects with the group! We love hearing about what people are working on and will gladly give feedback!

To stay in touch you can:
On Twitter Follow @inkDrinkDraw or @NoCashComics & @AtomicBearPress
Read the inkDrinkDraw Blog at inkDrinkDraw.weebly.com for updates.

Make sure we have your email so we can keep you up dated !
P.S. please let me know if you got this email, it’s a new list and need to make sure it’s working.

thanks
gWebber & Brian Kolm

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Apr
22
2011

New Art! Evil Peter Pan

Brush and Ink drawing. 11″x17″

Evil Peter Pan

click above for larger image at flickr.com

Nov
03
2010

videos: Motion Illustration and Motion Comics pt 1

As some of you might know, I am very interested in not only animation and comics, but combining them together into Motion Illustration and Motion Comics. Motion Comics and Motion Illustration are where artwork used for different medium or format (usually an analog one) is adapted to tell a story with motion and sound. Some of these trailers and shorts use new material that was created specifically for the video that goes beyond just touching up some images in Photoshop, but they are included here as part of the same “family.”

Just a bit of disclosure is that I have made some videos like these myself. In fact I just posted some work two weeks ago that I did with comic creator Alexis E. Farjardo for a trailer for Kid Beowulf and the Song of Roland.

This is part 1 or 2 with these videos having more charm, humor, fantasy and whimsy.

First up we have Chris Ware’s poem, Falling. This goes to show how it does not take a lot of bells and whistles to add life to a video version of a comic. One thing that seems to run through all of these is having the right music though.

Luis Grane’s contribution to the Totoro Forest Project (www.totoroforestproject.org)

Some nice simple animation that works with the music to really give you a little treat.

Tim Sievert’s ‘That Salty Air’ Trailer (Top Shelf)

Here the folks at Top Shelf have actually created new animation based on the comic for this moody piece.

Jeffrey Brown’s INCREDIBLE CHANGE-BOTS (Top Shelf)

Lost Colony Trailer (FirstSecond books)

Diana Thung’s Captain Long Ears

Suzy Lee’s Wave (Chronicle books)

This is another nice simply done piece from a childrens book.

It’s A Book by Lane Smith (Macmillan)

This is just funny and charming and really well done.

Zits: Drive Her Crazy (Jantze Studio)

Not sure if Mike and his crew did new art or used art from the actual comic strip, but it’s really fun and well done. I am guessing we will see more of these coming in the near future.

Look for part 2 on Friday Nov 5 for a little Action and Adventure!

Oct
12
2008

Sunday thoughts – 10-12-08

- Tomorrow is the Hayward Super Con. I will stop by to see my cousin who is selling some of his comic collection.

- I am home from the CAM fundraiser at PIXAR and it was a fantastic evening. So much creative in one place.

- Earlier this week the Cartoonist Conspiracy’s Comic Jam was one a great one with some real great drawings and paintings. Well have some comic online in the next few weeks I hope.

- Last weekend I was at Silicon which was a lot of fun. I was on a couple of panels and met some nice folks.

- Neil Gaiman reads his book The Graveyard Book by way of video. Looks like the whole book is there and Mr. Gaiman really reads his books well. A fun story about a graveyard of ghost who raise a orphaned baby.

- My friend Joe Borelli has a new blog to review Horror movies. Joe is one heck of a writer and is really passionate about the spooky stuff.

- Again with the Comics blog has posted CC Beck’s (creator of Captain Marvel) Fat Man. A charming and cleaver comic that was a failure, but it is hear to read on-line. He makes the hefty hero charming, heroic and fun. The big bone heroes are usually are used as comic relief, but I like Fat Man a lot.

- Alex Schumacher has some good tips for Cartoonist.

- Comic Book covers from Indonesia: Komik Indonesia.

- Swedish illustrator Mattias Adolfsson paints flying buildings. Fantastic work…check them out.

- the art of comic artist Alec Severin. His classic style drawings of horses are so full of life and his heroic art is both fantasy and reality.

-in NY an exhibit of Italian Masters of Comic Art. Cool paintings and drawings.

Sep
22
2008

Recent Artwork

monkey-barkeep001

Sketches from last Saturday kids class at the Cartoon Art Museum. There was a Totoro theme.

This is a current project/exerciese to create sketch cards of orignal art. The superhero images were drawn from convention costume photos.

Sep
15
2008

ILRCSF Vote! postcard

Everyone needs to get out to vote

I just did my second illustration commision with the ILRCSF (Independent Living Resource Center San Francisco) for there election postcard. It’s important that everyone gets out to vote. Pen and Ink with Watercolor.

Everyone needs to get out to vote

©2008 ILRCSF

About the ILRCSF:

OUR MISSION is to ensure that people with disabilities are full social and economic partners,
both within their families and in a fully accessible community.

OUR CORE VALUES include choice,
consumer leadership, full access to and inclusion
in the community for all people with disabilities, universal usability of housing and consumer products, and that persons with disabilities are experts on their own disabilities. We achieve our goals through Service, Education, & Advocacy.

May
23
2008

Jason Peck’s Adventure of the Brush

Jason Peck's Explorers

A new favorite blog of mine features the work of artist and painter Jason Peck. He practices classic painting techniques like oils and watercolors to create cool fantasy and adventure themed illustrations and art. He has a fully painted graphic novel comic out, the Explorers, that looks fantastic. So check out his work HERE. To celebrate the release of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Crystal Skull, check out Jason’s Indy artwork…HERE.

Jason Peck\'s Explorers

artwork ©2008 Jason Peck and used with out permission.

Mar
11
2008

The Wizards of Ur

The Wizards of Ur is a new artist blog that features artists James V. West, A.P. Furtado, Nate Piekos and Chuck Whelon. I will be looking forward to seeing what new stuff these gents produce.

The work below is by Chuck Whelon.

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