For those of us who do comics, there is a science to how dialog can be displayed for the reader. My sister sent me an interesting link to the Evolution of Speechballoons. It’s really fascinating. Check it out. tags: comics|
Sep 01
Convention appearances in September/October coming up!!
Atomic Bear Press/Brian Kolm will be at: September 9-10, 2006 – San Francisco Zine-Fest (Lexpress table) September 16, 2006 – The Expo for the Artist & Musician – San Francisco CA October 6-8, 2006 – Silicon – San Jose CA To find out more click on the events date or visit the Appearance section of …
Sep 01
Read my article about art at Silicon 2005 in ImagineFx’s October issue.
I was recently contacted by ImagineFX, a magazine about Digital Fantasy and Sci-Fi artwork. They had read on my blog about when I was at Silicon and wanted a review of it for their Event/Convention section. tags: silicon|imaginefx|convention|digitalart|kolm|
Sep 01
Day 4/5 – Cartoon Art Camp: Character Creation
I know this post is late coming. I was trying to get my handouts avalible in downloadable PDF form, but got distracted by other things. For Day 4 we focused on developing our own characters. The students had to make a choice to what they wanted to draw for the next two days (Thursday and …
Sep 01
Cartoon Skeletons in Korea
The Arario Gallery in Korea is displaying some realistic skeletons of cartoon characters. Visit this link to see the bone structure of the Road Runner, Bugs Bunny, Wile E Coyote, Felix the Cat, and Mickey Mouse. It’s just disturbing and cool all at the same time. tags: cartoon|skeleton|Korea|
Aug 27
AW Blog Chain: College Food and Beyond
Well, it’s time to for another AW Blog Chain (#5). Over at the Even in a little thing blog, Gillian Polack writes about her view on the classic English dishes that she knows being modified and changed as time progresses. I like food. Even with my tubby tummy, I am still glad that at a …
Aug 24
Day 3 – Cartoon Art Camp: Character Creation
Today’s class began with a warm up of gesture drawing of the human form. Each of the kids took turns drawing a quick gesture on the newsprint pad from the pose of one of the other students. We then sat down and I passed out a handout of photos of Live Action Superheroes. I demonstrated …
Aug 22
Day 2 – Cartoon Art Camp: Character Creation
Day two went as great as day one. We started the day with a warm-up focusing on the skills we learned the day before: making a character from spheres and cilenders/tubes. The rest of the day we spent learning to draw the classic heroic male from a front view. Images coming soon. Tags: drawing|sketch|painting|art|Brian Kolm|comics|Atomic …
