Tuesday, March 1, 2011

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

Saturday, February 19, 2011

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.


Tuesday, February 8, 2011

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

Saturday, February 5, 2011

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.
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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!