Rich Barrett » Children’s Art http://www.richbarrett.com Rich Barrett - Web Design | Online Marketing | Web Comics Fri, 16 Jul 2010 02:20:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 The Union County Library Con http://www.richbarrett.com/2010/06/26/the-union-county-library-con/ http://www.richbarrett.com/2010/06/26/the-union-county-library-con/#comments Sat, 26 Jun 2010 16:25:45 +0000 Rich http://www.richbarrett.com/?p=288 Yesterday I had the pleasure of appearing as a guest at the Union County Library Mini-Con in Indian Trail, NC. This is the second year that John Tompkins of  the Union County Library has organized such an event and my first time attending. Among some of my friends from Sketch Charlotte were other local cartoonists like Dave McDonald and Dennis The Menace cartoonist Marcus Hamilton.

I was frankly a little unsure at first why I had been invited to attend. My creepy, 9/11 comic was not something that I could show to kids so I expected to be sitting there doing nothing for 6 hours. I couldn’t have been more wrong. From the moment the convention started I had a line of kids at my table waiting for me to draw them sketches of whatever they wanted. At one point I had to tell them to wait for me while I went into the back room and ate lunch. There was literally no break until I left at 5:30. I was probably busier that afternoon than I was the whole 3 days at HeroesCon.

The kids were all great and really receptive and interested in seeing me draw. I asked just about each one if they read comic books and of course the answer was almost always no. But they knew characters like Iron Man and Spider-man from the movies and cartoons so that’s what they wanted drawings of. The cool thing was that there were a couple of kids that were interested in the aspect of drawing themselves and said they liked to draw at home. So hopefully it was encouraging and inspiring to them to see a roomful of artists doing this.

I took photos of most but not all of my sketches with my iPhone and already posted a number of them as I was doing them but here’s the rest, a little cleaned up.

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]]> http://www.richbarrett.com/2010/06/26/the-union-county-library-con/feed/ 0 Elmo FTW! http://www.richbarrett.com/2010/01/19/elmo-ftw/ http://www.richbarrett.com/2010/01/19/elmo-ftw/#comments Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:04:37 +0000 Rich http://www.richbarrett.com/?p=208 This is the illustration I did for the invite for my daughter’s upcoming 2nd birthday party. Someone is a little Elmo-obsessed. The blank area at the bottom is where the event information would go – didn’t seem right to post here. I’m actually not all that happy with the caricature of my daughter though. I [...]]]> elmo_invite

This is the illustration I did for the invite for my daughter’s upcoming 2nd birthday party. Someone is a little Elmo-obsessed. The blank area at the bottom is where the event information would go – didn’t seem right to post here. I’m actually not all that happy with the caricature of my daughter though. I did a much better job on last year’s invite which you can see here.

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]]> http://www.richbarrett.com/2010/01/19/elmo-ftw/feed/ 0 Sloth http://www.richbarrett.com/2009/05/06/sloth/ http://www.richbarrett.com/2009/05/06/sloth/#comments Thu, 07 May 2009 01:08:06 +0000 Rich http://www.richbarrett.com/?p=88 Rummaging through my archives I thought I’d pull out these illustrations I once did for a children’s book that never quite got off the ground. Fittingly, it was about a sloth. Click below to see some more. Share on Facebook Tweet This]]> sloth_sleeping

Rummaging through my archives I thought I’d pull out these illustrations I once did for a children’s book that never quite got off the ground. Fittingly, it was about a sloth. Click below to see some more.

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]]> http://www.richbarrett.com/2009/05/06/sloth/feed/ 0 Robots on the moon! http://www.richbarrett.com/2009/03/30/robots-on-the-moon/ http://www.richbarrett.com/2009/03/30/robots-on-the-moon/#comments Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:27:09 +0000 Rich http://www.richbarrett.com/?p=75 This is a painting I just finished as a gift for a friend to put up in his 3 year old son’s room. I have other kid’s room paintings that I’ve done and will be adding them to this section soon. In the meantime, enjoy some Robots on the moon! Share on Facebook Tweet This]]> robots_sm

This is a painting I just finished as a gift for a friend to put up in his 3 year old son’s room. I have other kid’s room paintings that I’ve done and will be adding them to this section soon. In the meantime, enjoy some Robots on the moon!

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]]> http://www.richbarrett.com/2009/03/30/robots-on-the-moon/feed/ 1 Evan Samantha http://www.richbarrett.com/2009/02/19/evan-samantha/ http://www.richbarrett.com/2009/02/19/evan-samantha/#comments Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:45:12 +0000 Rich http://www.richbarrett.com/2009/02/19/evan-samantha/ This is my first ever drawing of my daughter, Evan Samantha. I did this little illustration for the invite for her first birthday party. Share on Facebook Tweet This]]> evie-drawing

This is my first ever drawing of my daughter, Evan Samantha. I did this little illustration for the invite for her first birthday party.

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