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Rueben Award Winner | 2x Eisner nominated Writer-cartoonist of comics & painter of things. Currently working on sequel to award-winning debut graphic novel Kodi

Pittsburgh, PA

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Jared Cullum

2 years

SO EXCITED to finally talk about this! It’s official… I signed on and have the greenlight. We’re back, friends, with a new adventure in a second Kodi book. I can’t wait to share concept art, sketches and process as the book comes together.❤️🙍🏼‍♀️🐻 @topshelfcomix @IDWPublishing

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3 years

Variant cover painted for Usagi Yojimbo

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3 months

Demo for my watercolor in the sketchbook class

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2 months

Demos from my Gouache: finding the extraordinary in the ordinary workshop tonight!

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Couple recent #usagi 🐇 watercolors ⚔️

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7 months

Gouache demo for my class tonight. The assignment for the week is to sketch a corner of a room in your house.

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1 year

TMNT commission. Gearing up for SPX! Hope to see you there Saturday. (K4)

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1 year

Big 🐇 commission- a Usagi Yojimbo complete sketchbook I did in an art-trade with someone. I can’t share the whole thing until it’s received. I do sell these and individual pages- which I’m going to be doing a sale on for con season. Will share the whole thing soon!

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6 months

Cut out sketchbook page of Popeye

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3 months

Another Usagi Yojimbo “what if” set in 1984 instead of Edo era Japan for fun with the VW ‘rabbit.’ These have been so fun to draw! 🐇 ⚔️ #usagiyojimbo #comicsart

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10 months

Chrono Trigger request WIP

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2 years

Some more process work which I don’t share often. Color pencil and watercolor in a 🐝 sketchbook #tmnt

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2 years

These ol’ boys again 🍕 🐢 gouache and watercolor #tmnt

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11 months

🐢 boys

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3 months

Drawing Mega man characters with my son.

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27 days

My two paintings “Petroglyphs on Kodiak Island” and “boots” were invited to the Pittsburgh Watercolor Society’s international Aqueous Open. That’s fun!

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10 months

Mikey-copter 🐢 ⚔️ WIP TMNT request!

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3 years

On the drafting table.. fun little project with these characters. I miss drawing/painting them- it’s been a real joy to play around in this sandbox again ❤️🐻🙍🏼‍♀️

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2 years

⛈ ☔️ Even when it rains- Never give up! :) sketching up a storm ⛈ in a storm.

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5 months

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9 months

Requested tribute to Donald Duck comics

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3 years

Commissioned family portrait in my story style.

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6 months

Happy MAR10 day! Mario watercolor

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4 years

I have drawn/painted my wife at least a thousand times in our 12 years together. She gets more and more beautiful every day. She’s my hero and my best friend. This painting of her and my daughter is in an online exhibition right now on

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2 years

@TWRPband and the floating islands @DoctorSungTWRP @LordPhobosTWRP @CommanderMeouch

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3 months

‘Slash’ commission for Heroes Con in a couple weeks.

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4 years

He was 1 when I wrote it. 2 when it pitched. At 3 he wanted to help so I made a table next to mine to paint together. He’s 5 now & it fills my heart to hear him laughing at the jokes and referring to it with pride as “our book,” available tomorrow @topshelfcomix @IDWPublishing

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1 month

Some custom Usagi blanks 🐇 🗡️

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2 years

Check out what came in the mail! My Usagi cover is up this month. 🐇 ⚔️ @IDWPublishing

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3 months

Just a little 🐇 fun. I was painting and sketched this car. It’s a 1984 which was the same year Usagi y published and it got me daydreaming about a world where Usagi took place in 84 instead of Edo Japan so I did some sketches and this painting. Bonus if you know the type of car

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2 years

🐇 1 request and 2 sketchbook improvisations of Usagi Yojimbo

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21 days

Demos from my gouache found still life class tonight

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2 years

Embattled Sasuké & Usagi 🦊 🐰 ⚔️

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13 days

Tonight I taught a class on techniques and tips for painting skies with watercolor. Here are my demos:

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2 years

🐢 A couple cut out and sold pages from my sketchbook

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3 months

🥫🍃

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9 months

Heroes & Villains ⚔️ 🐢

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4 years

Family commission in my story style for a friend and cartoonist pal @katiecandraw

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2 years

Figure warm up with Usagi colored pencil and watercolor Bee Sketchbook🐇 🗡

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2 years

Took apart an old briefcase I found and rebuilt it as a watercolor travel pochade box. It can haul all of my supplies and paper for large (12x18) or small.

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1 year

Some super exciting news, friends.. I heard it was announced at SDCC so I’ll mention it here.. 1. The variant cover series I did for Usagi Yojimbo is coming out soon! (Ice & snow 2-5) 2. I’m working with the wonderful Sakais on a watercolor ‘Art of Usagi Yojimbo’ book soon!🐇🗡️

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4 months

🐇 🐢 ⚔️

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7 months

Working 🎨 #kidlitart

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2 years

No sword, no problem 🐇 🗡

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5 months

Gouache and watercolor side by side demo for the Northwest Watercolor Society. What a fun group! It was an honor to demo with them and chat about painting.

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1 year

Final demo for my ‘Storytelling with Watercolor’ class I taught tonight. Great group! This was a fun one. :) 🐷 🚲 #comicsart #kidlitart

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2 years

18”x24” Watercolor. That van was my favorite toy as a child. 🐢 ⚔️

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3 years

Ever since I began to draw, it's been a long-shot starry-eyed dream to one day eventually be considered for the Eisner Awards. I am overwhelmed with thankfulness for these two nominations for Kodi. #eisnerawards @topshelfcomix @IDWPublishing @Comic_Con

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11 months

2 pages of Kodi 2 prepping for varnish as to not smear the scanner. I’m using a mix of impasto gouache and soft pastels to bring back light, atmosphere and color character for this book. @topshelfcomix #comicsart #kidlitart #yabooks

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5 months

Day 2 of River Towns Plein air Competition. Getting in some rocks- fun subject plus I need the practice.

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2 months

Petroglyphs, 15”x22” watercolor | Kodiak, Alaska

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1 year

Complete customized Usagi Yojimbo sketchbook commission made for an art-trade. Currently taking sketchbook page commissions for Con season. Spots are limited though #watercolor #art #usagiyojimbo

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5 years

KODI by Jared Cullum | YA Graphic Novel (Extended) Book Trailer! @topshelfcomix | #comics #graphicnovel #trailer #comicsart #watercolor

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5 years

📖 My book. My 4 year painting-marathon. It’s been a long journey and here it is. I’ve always been jealous of artists who post their finished stack of pages. Finally. Here’s mine :) 170 hand painted pages. Not including paste-overs- edits and failed pages. Hits stores in June!

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2 months

Painting on some blanks

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2 years

In the sketchbook 🤖 🐢⚔️🍕 #tmnt

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3 months

I painted a cover for the new Power Rangers-Usagi Yojimbo cross-over. Coming soon:

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4 years

Hello! My name is Jared and I'm a Writer-Cartoonist and painter of things. My new middle-grade GN (Kodi) releases Aug. 25 | more about me here: Book: site: insa: jaredcullum Traditional Painting demos:

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1 year

Good news, everyone! Excited to finally share.. I’m painting a series of covers for Usagi Yojimbo! This is a WIP for one. Also have some other huge unrelated art-news… but I can’t talk about that yet. 🤫 but soon!

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3 years

Rainy day in Lawrenceville, PA. One of my favorite spots in Pittsburgh @RowHouseCinema 20x16 watercolor

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2 years

Appropriate inspiration for Michelangelo #tmnt 🐢 🍕 🛹

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10 months

🐢 prepped for paint

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4 years

Comics process post: I paint my panels by first building value based on 2 compliments to make a harmonious gray. (Yellow/lavender | blue/orange) I try to forget what I’m painting and focus on the planes and “sculpt” focused on the light. A ship is the same as a shoe box.

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2 years

Modified my feather-light travel “Gurney-Easel” (apologies to James Gurney for idea/design) to fit my @ArtToolkit 🎨 also had gouache insert

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1 year

Every time I get a chance to work with this character 🐇 - not only am I just full of gratitude but I don’t know what’s more fun to draw/paint- the expressive character or the fabrics.

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4 months

☕️ 🍩

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2 years

🐇 🗡

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3 months

One last painted up “what if” image board from my sketches of a re-imagined Usagi Yojimbo set in 1984. Wanted to do at least one with a villain. So here is the infamous Jei with defiant Miyamoto in the made up Usagi-1984 world. 🙂 🐇 ⚔️

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3 years

Happy Holidays! (11x17 watercolor gouache holiday card for IDW Publishing: original available)

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3 years

If you stopped me as a kid– you would have found a sketchbook packed w Usagi Yojimbo & a Usagi TMNT action figure. Imagine my shock recently when I received an email from the creator, having seen my book, inquiring if I would be interested in working on a variant cover for Usagi

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9 months

Last watercolor pass on these pages before soft pastel and varnish - the main character carries the @littlebrassbox I’m using to paint this book :)

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2 years

🐰 Companion Request of Usagi Yojimbo. 12x16 Gouache and Watercolor

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2 years

20”x 9” Gouache sketch of a Monstera and albo monsters plant 🪴

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3 years

Quick study of a bream (from photo so he could safely return to share his alien abduction story) from a fishing trip with the kids today

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2 years

🦛 I have a regular collector who, for the past couple years, has been commissioning me to paint well-known paintings from art-history but with hippos/animals. It is one of the most fun things I get to draw from time to time :) this is Washington crossing the Delaware.

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6 years

Working on comics

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2 months

Less than a week left to sign up for my gouache found still life workshop! One night, $50, ($10 off previous students or patrons) July 3 6-9pm est. more info in link tree in bio.

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11 months

Working on Kodi 2. When I painted Kodi, I was learning watercolor &struggled to get the tools to do what I wanted. After hundreds of pages and plein air studies- i still feel I’m barely scratching the surface but I have a couple party tricks to light the scenes as I want to.

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2 years

A fun ‘family portrait’ commission in my story-style

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2 months

WIP panel from Kodi 2

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2 years

🐇 🐢 in the sketchbook

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4 years

Because of my usual kids-work I don’t often get requests for super-folks. Here’s a commission I had for the spectrum of Lanterns. #dccomics #greenlantern

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2 years

🐇 sketchbook study. Still doing an end of year sale on these character sketchbook pages or whole sketchbooks (12 pages cold-press). This is a commissioned complete character sketchbook.

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2 years

Gouache sketch of the desk next to my workspace.

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3 months

Color Demo from tonight’s watercolor in a sketchbook class

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2 years

My son is obsessed with Zelda BOTW so I stitched a bokoblin mask for him as a gift.

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2 years

🐇 🐢 ⚔️ 🏙 parkour!

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2 years

These ol’ boys again. Commissioned watercolor of Gen and Usagi 🦏 🐇 🗡 🇯🇵

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2 years

Commissioned family portrait in my story-style I paint my books in.

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5 years

Here's my scanned and collected Hourlys for Hourly Comic Day 2020 | Wowza, that was fun. I miss journal-comics. I could this forever. #hourlycomicday #hourlycomicday2020

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2 years

Couple cut out sketchbook pages some folks recently bought. 💚🐢⚔️ Watercolor on cartridge

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6 months

Warm-up prep-sketches in the sketchbook for a job I’m working on. I can’t talk about it yet but I will say it is for this little known karate troupe one might describe as both Mighty and morphin’. More about it soon! 🥋 🎨 🤫

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2 years

Took my watercolor tank out today plein air painting at the Pittsburgh Observatory Hill. The Yellowstone standard from Alla Prima Pochade - I can pack all my heavy watercolor gear in one box.

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7 years

Sketch of an old farm house my wife and I fell in love with in Pittsburgh... so much so, we put an offer on it and they accepted! 🏠❤️

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3 years

16x20 watercolor of Natrona Heights, PA

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3 years

Without live events I have not gotten many character requests but here is a couple fun ones I did recently of Mrs Brisby and Mowgli #watercolor #kidlitart

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