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Showing posts with label Photoshop. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Photoshop. Show all posts
Sora the Explora'
Just 4 days left until Wizard World 2013! Where I'll have prints like the one above available for your purchasing needs!
WHO
Thanks to all the peoples that stopped at my lil' shared table space at NYCC 2011! I hope everyone who got a sketch or a Chibi came away satisfied. I plan on having an artist alley table all to myself next year.
Above is a sketch I did for a sketch club I've joined with my buddy Jd and his buddy Zachary Trover. Each week we pick a random character/ subject and go to town. This past week was "Dr.Who". I picked the Tom Baker ver. (the best Who ever IMO).
Being in a sketch club will be good for me, seeing as how I'm horrible about keeping this place updated.
Stay tuned!
Monkey King NARUTO Super Saiyan
Some rainy day painting practice. I'm learning to paint without the aid of having black line work around everything.
ANNUNCIO
Above is a poster I designed for the short film 'ANNUNCIO'. This was my first real time doing a portraiture painting so I was worried that I might not be able to pull it off. But surprisingly it wasn't as difficult as I thought it would be. The real challenge turned out to be the leather glove. Drawing hands has never been one of my stronger points ;)
Be sure to check out the trailer at the 'ANNUNCIO' website here.
AVN!
If you follow my blog with the ofteness I've been working with the good people of Geekadelphia.com designing posters for their monthly movie screenings. Last time it was for an incredible screening of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. This time around it's for an awesome lil' film called Alien vs. Ninja. Yes, you heard me....ALIEN vs. Ninja! I was really hoping for a 'Ewoks vs. Ninja' or a 'Yeti vs. Ninja' adaption but with the cult success of AVN my dreams may yet come true. If you live in or around the Philadelphia region be sure to come out April 2nd for all the Midnight Madness! There'll be pony rides for the kids and a dog show during the intermission...oh wait, there won't be any of that. However, you will see plenny of Aliens battling Ninjas! ( hey how many times in life does one get to say that?!)
As for the poster I was trying to capture that 'Grindhouse' feel while being inspired by old wrestling posters from the 70's and 80's. Lots of cheesy slogans and catch phrases. Limited color scheme to boot. Prints will be available at the show!
For more info on the Trocadero theater click here.
Hope to see you there :)
Insert snazzy blog entry title here
It's late, but, for some reason I'm full of creative POWWEERRRR! Wish this was the case 99% of the time :(
Merii Kurisumasuu!
To all my followers and friends a very Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year!
Ben Vs. the Dry-Erase Board
I recently had the pleasure of providing the promotional art for Geekadelphia.com 's upcoming screening of 'Scott Pilgrim vs. the World' at the Trocadero Theater here in Philly. The original concept for the above piece started out as a crappy dry-erase marker drawing I did for my joe-job. They wanted the final art to look exactly like the original. So I took what pics I had of the board (now erased into history) into Photoshop and did a trace up then went to inks. I did a lot of little tweaks to almost everything to correct mistakes and add detail. The color was fun to play around with. I notice some artists these days use the gradient tool to get some nice fade effects going. This technique came in handy with the clouds and fire in the b/g.
For more info on the event click here and scroll down to November 15th. Hope to see some of you there.
Tone Deaf
So I'm playing around with screen tones in Photoshop getting mixed results and snags. Why use Photoshop for tone work? Well, it's the program I'm most familiar with. There are methods that I'd read up on that show you that toning is possible with Photoshop. I've used Manga Studio before but found it to be a lot like Photoshop only there were annoying little things that made it a lot not like Photoshop which turned me off to it. Now, I shouldn't criticize it that much, this was a really early version of the program so by now all those little bugs have probably been squashed. In fact I just watched a video on the Manga Studio homepage where Dave Gibbons (of Watchmen fame) gives a run through of how he uses the program to pull off some amazing work. In the end Manga Studio is the better choice for tones, seeing as how it's built from the ground up for comic production. But Photoshop will always be my first love and will probably be open right next to whatever other program I'm using at the moment filling in the gaps other programs leave open.
Telly
Either way, I look forward to doing more of these.
For those in the New York, New York USA area I'll be attending the New York Comic Con/Anime Fest 2010 this coming weekend Friday & Sunday. Be sure to stop by booth # 432 as I'll be hovering around throughout the weekend handing out Stan swag with my buddy/mentor Jamar Nicholas. Hope to see you thaar!
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