On July 14 2012 ComicCon weekend lots of artist and fans are
down in San Diego for the Comic-Con, but some of us couldn't go. So we got
together to celebrate fandom, comics and art and created
our own two
part event !! The CAM Comic and Art Fest & Bat-Mania (at the Cartoon Art
Museum San Francisco).
The Bat-Mania was held
in the Cartoon Art Museum's Lobby and Admission was FREE.
We had several
artists doing Batman and Batman related character sketches for free, Yes, I said
FREE! Donations to the Museum for these sketches is greatly appreciated but not
required. Plus out friends at the local Promo company were giving away assorted
Batman
“The Dark Night Rises” Movie Posters, T-Shirts, Hats and other
promotional goodies!
Here is a cool video
Michael Capazzola shot of our event, YouTube or at Vimeo
https://vimeo.com/45813060 Part two was the InkDrinkDraw / CAM COMIC and ART FEST - $7.00 Admission (less for Students, Kids & Seniors)
(More Photos Below)
For your $7 bucks you got:
ARTIST:
Vincent Kukua - Matt Harding - Lloyd Hoshide - Michael Capozzola - Helen
Bayly - Robin Edgar - Ben Collision - Brian Kolm - George Webber - Edward
Edgerson - Larry Luna - Karl Dotter - Guiuem Ruiz - Joy Zu - Ben Jecker - Monico
Chavez - Alphonso Cornelius - Alyssa Lee - Gary Amaro - Maria Leung - Michael
Capozzola (Artist at the event included (hope I spell the names right and don't forget
anyone)
1. Admission to the Cartoon Art Museum Galleries to see tons of original comic and
cartoon art including “Avengers Assemble” featuring Thor, Hulk, Iron Man and
Captain America!
2. A Raffle Ticket for our Hourly Prize Raffle!
3. Watch loads of Live Drawing by local artists!
4. Sketch-A-Thon North Have an artist do a custom sketch for you (in exchange for a donation to the Museum).
5. Super Deals at the ‘Super-Compact Pop-Up Boutique’, Loads of Original Art, Prints, Comics and more!
6. Hourly Art related Demos! By Artist like: Brian Kolm (Snownan the Brave), Chloe Dalquist (Jamie the Trickster), Chuck Whelon (Pewfell), character designer and Illustrator Karen Krajenbrink, Michael Capozzola (“Surveillance Caricatures”), and George Webber (Pirate Fairies, Tiki Tales).
7. A 15% discount at the Cartoon Art Museum Bookstore to anyone in Costume and to Artist who bring in their Portfolio/Sketchbook!
Woo, That was a lot of stuff for $ 7.00 bucks!
Vincent Kukua & Brian Kolm are wild for Batzarro !
HARLEY QUINN !!!!!
And this was when it was slow!
Danielle sqweeled like a little girl with delight getting her Catwoman
Another fan in costume !
Ivy aces Batman
Just a few of the artist on hand at the event
These guys got one of my Zatanna Prints as a Raffle Prize .. SCORE!
Looks like Batman and a killer Killer Croc getting worked on
The idea for Octobers "Comic Makeover" inkDrinkDraw seemed like a simple one, but some file errors nearly got the better of us. Fortunatly we had several stories so it worked out fine in the end.
So here's how a Comic Makeover works:
Step One:
Find an old comic book (look online too) with a short story with 2 to 4 characters (two main characters and X number of side characters works great) that's about 3 or 4 pages long. The tackier the story the better, Romance Stories work great for this.
Step Two:
Next convert all the art EXCEPT the boarders, word balloons and text to blue line art (see example below).
Step Three:
Once you have your Blueline sheets, print a bunch of those out keeping the blue fairly light (lighter than this sample), Two or three artist can work on a single story or if there is time everyone can do a full story on their own.
Now comes the fun part ...
Step Four:
Don't tell anyone what the story is or what it's about!
Just tell them they need to design some characters (character's theme can be anything, cats, robots, monsters, whatever) as long as they are simple enough to do a four page story in the time you have. If you have lots of artist, one person can design the characters, one can do the pencils and one can do the final inking so it's a fun colaboration.
Step Five:
Now that they have characters it's time to give them the story sheets and let them workout how thier characters are going to play out within the layouts of the blueline sheets (backgrounds can be altered to fit in with characters better if you want).
The Finished Project:
Below is and example of how Brian, Jeff and I came up with some characters for the story above and then shared pencil and inking duties, Enjoy!
(Clicking images will enlarge them for easier reading)
While we only had a small group for the very FIRST inkDrinkDraw gathering everyone had a good time. The meet was at HOOTERS SF near pier 39 so there was food drinks and the Hooters girls made for built-in models.
We started off with George (Webber) doing a live Demo on using Copic Markers and talked about the advantages of Copics over many other brands of Markers.
After that we did an assortment of Hooters related Open Projects, Brian work on quick Gesture sketchs of the fast moving Hooters girls, George was doing cartoon characters of the girls and Mike & Jeff did an assortment of cartoons and sketches.
All in all a pretty good night andthe Hooters girls made out like bandits.
Tracy & gWebber - Hooters SF
Brittany & gWebber - Hooters SF
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