These were drawn during my class at MSAT, yesterday. Each one was based off of a Random Name from my deck of Super Hero Names. The first one is called Dragon Lantern and the second is Warlock Fish. Click for larger images. Tags: drawing|sketch|painting|art|Brian Kolm|comics|Atomic Bear Press|AtomicBearPress|ABP|
May 15
Guarnido’s Blacksad artwork
If you haven’t seen the work of the Spanish artist Juanjo Guarnido has created for Blacksad, it’s worth a look. He has created a cool film noir world of anthropomorphic animals all rendered in watercolor. The work is simple stunning.
May 15
Tools: Random Names from behindthename.com
This site, behindthename.com will take a data-base of real names and randomize it either generally, or with specific ethnic backgrounds. It definitely can be a great way to come up with character names for any type of storytelling. The only down size is that it can only generate one name at a time and you …
May 15
826 Valencia Field Trip artwork
Here is my latest from 826 Valencia. I created it last week. Check out this LINK to see all the 826 Valencia books I have illustrated.
May 12
Tezuka: The Marvel of Manga
The youtube video below is to promote the new exhibit at the SF Asian Art Museum: Tezuka: The Marvel of Manga (marvelofmanga.org). Looks to be a pretty awesome exhibit.
May 09
Thomas Kuebler’s life-like sculptures
site screen grab from http://www.tskuebler.com/ (via MAKE: blog) Thomas Kuebler creates life like, life size figures that will blow you away. Boy it would be cool to see what he could come up with for Halloween. Check out the Witches and Wisemen: LINK also this awesome Superman figure on the news page: LINK tags: sculpture|
May 07
My favorite pens (Zebra)
click for bigger image I have inked most of my comics books with an excellent pen from Japan with the brand name Zebra. It’s the silver one in the photo above. The pen in fantastic since it has a brush tip and the ink can take washes of paint on top. I just bought a …
May 04
Theme Park Appreciation: Stich AA at WDW
The video has a short clip of the Stich AA at Walt Disney World. It’s amazingly fluid. It even looks like it’s walking around. tags: disney|themepark|
