Alexis Fajardo at the Lexpress Production Log has posted some step-by-step pages from Kid Beowulf and the Song of Roland. It’s really cool to see how an artist works and this is no exception. Alexis’ work has come a long way since his first Kid Beowulf work in 2003 and he has developed his own …
Jul 06
CARTOON ART CAMP: Making Mini-Comics – August 7th – 11th
I am happy to announce my second Cartoon Art Camp class at the Cartoon Art Museum is official – Making Mini Comics. The last one in June was really fun. Thanks to modern reproduction techniques we can easily make our own books featuring our own art. These are great for gifts or to sell. Where …
Jul 05
Patriotic Pirates Party
What could be more American then a merry band of pirate from centuries ago. I was invited to a party hosted by a member of the Tales of the Seven Sea’s group for the forth of July. So yesterday I headed to Redwood city, first to see the cities parade and then to go the …
Jul 05
4th of July parade 2006 – Redwood City CA
Yesterday I had the pleasure of being Redwood City, CA for their annual Forth of July Parade. Below are a handful of photos I took while there. Some might be out of order. Before the parade started I checked out a car show with some beautiful machines. Then I got to see the start of …
Jul 02
Birthday heroes
One service I can offer is to provide some entertainment for birthday parties, like this one I did last sunday with a superhero theme. Here are the heroes the boys ( and one girl) created. Here are the birthday kids and me with the birthday boy. And here is the drawing I did for the …
Jul 01
Sketch 6-29-06 Creature with Class
This was drawn after my class had let out and I was eating lunch. I used two piece of reference: a period costume and the creature from the black lagoon. I really like how it came out. Tags: drawing|sketch|painting|art|Brian Kolm|comics|Atomic Bear Press|AtomicBearPress|ABP|
Jul 01
Sketch(es) 6-30-06 Captain Sea-Buckleâ„¢ – character creation
One of the character creation assignments I did in my class this week was to do some brain-storming to come up with a character idea. Since I want to practice what I preach, I created a character too. My key words I finally picked were: Pirate, Magical, and Robot I then thought about reference that …
Jul 01
Cartoon Art Camp – Day #4-5
Well, what a fun/busy week it’s been at the Cartoon Art Museum. Day #4 of Character Creation class was mostly drawing a final piece of art, including inking and color. It was a day of jokes, and I sometimes had to remind them to keep drawing. I was able to xerox their final line art …
