December meeting and party

Our next MCS session will be downriver at the River's Edge Gallery in Wyandotte this Sunday (the 18th) starting at 3:30 in the afternoon and going to whenever. We are starting a bit earlier than usual because the gallery will be open and walk ins can come and and check us out. So, this will be like any other meeting, but will also be our Holiday party, so if you want to bring a snack or drinks you are more than welcome.

Here is the address:

River's Edge Gallery
3024 Biddle Ave.
Wyandotte, MI 48192

See you there!

October Meeting

Our next MCS session will be at Tracey's Corner Cafe on Friday, October 21st from 6:30 to 10:00pm. As usual, we will be meeting in the basement of the cafe (turn right as you come in the front door), so bring whatever you want to work on, network, or just plain hang out with some cool cats. The usual banter about comic books, movies and general nerdery will be provided. You are welcome to bring your own.

29200 Hoover Road
Warren, MI 48093
586-576-0317

Ashleigh Popplewell, Scott & Michelle Schommer and Sara Pulkovski

MCS did great at Detroit Fanfare this past weekend! We raised $194.26... I think I can scrounge up some change in the Pulkovski couch and round that up to $200 to cff.org for Cystic Fibrosis research. Big thanks to Michelle Lucas Schommer and Scott Schommer for manning the table and bringing in the dough! Also thanks to the talented artists for volunteering their time and services and to Tony Miello and Detroit Fanfare for their hospitality!

Star Wars Sketch Jam!

Here is a preview of 1 of 4 sketch "Jams" that were produced at an MCS meet. They will be raffled off at the Motor City Sketch table at Detroit Fanfare for charity.

1. Official Star Wars Jam

2. Unofficial Star Wars Jam

3. X-men

4. Batman

Come enter to win!

Unofficial Star Wars Jam shown

September Meet

We are psyched to announce that Motor City Sketch joins Detroit Fanfare to host Shots for Sketches at Andiamo in the beautiful Renaissance Center in downtown Detroit!

Shots for Sketches will be a drink and draw event to benefit the Hero Initiative. You can come out and commission some of the hottest artists for a sketch by simply buying them a drink.

MCS and Shot for Sketches will follow the Shel Dorf awards and reception at 10:00 pm on Saturday, September 24th.

Andiamo Detroit Riverfront

400 Renaissance CenterSuite A-403

Detroit, MI 48243

Detroit Fanfare

Come see Motor City Sketch at Detroit Fanfare!

We will have a table where you can enter to win one of several Sketch Jams (more info to follow) and an artist will be on deck doing $5 sketches all to raise money for charity. All proceeds will go to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Please come out and support us, support a great local comic con, support the local talent and support CF research!

Meet Tony Miello!

Motor City Sketch would like to introduce Tony Miello. Tony joins Bill Pulkovski, Jay Shimko and Bruce Gerlach as managing members of MCS. Tony will be helping us expand our reach to the west side of the Metro Detroit area.

Tony got his start inking for independent publishers before launching his webcomic, Gapo the Clown which has now exceeded over 500 strips. He also works on the comic of the TV show, Wolfman Mac’s Chiller Drive Inand for the pop punk band, Bowling for Soup.

Meet August 19, 2011

Meet August 19, 2011

Our next meet will be back at Tracey's Corner Cafe in Warren on the 19th of August. We have a special announcement and could use a good turnout for some special projects! Come out and play people!

Tracey's Corner Cafe

29200 Hoover Rd

Warren, MI 48092

July Meet Up

Our next gathering of MCS will be at the Rainy Day Art Supply store on Friday, July 8 from 6:00 to 10:00pm. We've never had a meeting here before, so it should make for a great time! Remember to bring your own refreshments, if you so desire them.

Rainy Day Art Supply
20507 Mack Avenue
Grosse Pointe Woods, MI

Next Meet

Friday, May 27 · 6:30pm - 9:30pm
Location	Tracey's Corner Cafe 29200 Hoover Rd. Warren,Michigan
Created By	Motor City Sketch, Bruce Gerlach, Jay Shimko, Bill Pulkovski
More Info	Next meet is at Tracy's Corner Cafe in Warren.

Meet April 29, 2010

Our next meet will be back at Tracey's Corner Cafe in Warren on the 29th of April. Come out and play people!

Tracey's Corner Cafe

29200 Hoover Rd.

OU Article

Here's a link to a nice article!

http://www.ounewsbureau.com/?p=645

Motor City Sketch will be at The Detroit Fanfare at Cobo Hall in September! We will be raising some money for some charities that are close to our hearts. (Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, The Belle Isle Aquarium and Lymphoma)

For the rest of our meets leading up to Fanfare, we will be doing Sketch Jams to be auctioned off at Fanfare. A Sketch jam is a single piece of artwork that is created by several different artists on a single subject. Please take a moment and take a look in the left bar and vote for what you'd like us to sketch!

The Next Motor City Sketch is at Wonderwold Comics in Taylor. We have a ton of fine creatives that come to our little social network and they hail from all over the metro area, so we plan on moving MCS around to accomidate everyone and keep it fresh.

March we are heading west to Taylor where Wonderworld Comics will open their doors to our shenanigans! What a perfect way to get inspired, than to sit around in an awesome comic shop surrounded by wall to wall colorful comic books. As we are not in an establishment that serve food or beverage, please feel free to bring your own.

If anyone out there has any recommendations for futures meets, please let us know. Thanks everyone for keeping this puppy rolling and growing it bigger than we ever thought!

JBB

Motor City Sketch members and fans, come on out to the River's Edge Gallery in Wyandotte to see a new exhibit on comic book/ pop culture art featuring several local artists in the industry like Katie Cook, Jay Fosgitt and MCS regulars Bill Pulkovski, Tony Miello, Bruce Gerlach and Jay Shimko. Come on out the 25th of February to meet the artists, watch live demos, food, wine, storm troopers and good times.

February 25th- March 12th

Opening February 25th, starting at 6 PM

THE ART OF THE COMIC: A COMIC BOOK ART SHOW

featuring Tony Miello, Katie Cooke, Bill Pulkovski, Bruce Gerlach, Jay Shimko and Jay Fosgitt and invited guests. These niche artists are well known for their incredible detail as they create some of the most imaginative fantasy images. As part of the meet the artists night live storm troopers areexpected as well as nerdy fans.

www.artattheedge.com/index.php

February Event Friday, February 18 · 6:30pm - 10:00pm

The fine folks at Progressive had to cancel so we will NOT be meeting there, that means no demos or pizza :(

But no biggie, we will head to Tracy's Corner Cafe in Warren, MI. We Love Tracy and her coffees, teas and homemade sodas and sandwiches.

We will meet in the Bat Cave as there is live entertainment upstairs (bonus). Please come on out and inspire and be inspired!

Tracy's Corner Cafe

29200 Hoover Rd

February Event Friday, February 18 · 6:30pm - 10:00pm MOVED!

WE ARE NOT MEETING HERE!

Motor City Sketch is going to be held at Progressive Art & Framing in Clawson this month. This is a little different for us, but we are pleased to have them as a sponsor this month. They heard about us and dug what we do enough to invite us into there place, bring in some Pizza (yum) and show us some of their work and demo some of their machinery for us. This months event will be a BYOB event. (Yes you can bring Liquor in moderation of course and if you are of age)

Progressive Art & Frame Design

1511 Livernois

Clawson, MI 48017

We really want to thanks Jason Burns and Scott Kozaruk for coming up with this great idea.

More info will be posted on our facebook page:

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_149717611742447

Please follow our Blog and Facebook!

COPIC Rocks!

I've always been a huge fan of Copic. I love there products and create allot of work with them. I am often asked to compare Copic markers to Prismacolr and I always have the same response: They are both great and can give you the same results. Although much pricier, Copic is a little smoother and will get you to your destination with less "elbow grease."

Along with many other companies, we contacted both Copic and Prismacolor to see if they had interest in sponsoring what we do in our art community and Copic were super excited to do so. They did an awesome write-up in there blog about us and sent over a ton of free pit pens and markers to give out along with stickers and literature about their products. On top of that, they sent over a Black Ink Pro Wallet to gift out to a lucky guest.

COPIC ROCKS!!!

By the way, we are still waiting to hear back from Prismacolor.

WINNER!

Some pit pen fun courtesy of Copic and our lucky winner!