Stories from Lost Lands - Work by Ben - Updtd. Today!

[Ben powis]

Hi there,
Welcome to my new sketchbook!
Firstly, here some stuff from the past months as a little introduction:

[July 06 - Oops! Someone forgot to renew his web hosting! All the images not hosted on CA are dead, im popping some of the older stuff in this first post :) Ive done my best to delete all the red Xs! :) thanks!]


Thanks for looking!
~ Ben

[ChaoticKnight]

Hey cool work man! My only dificulties are in comprehending the drawings of the (pilots?). Perhaps a little more clarity of line would make it easier to see...
I love the second landscape and the B+W portrait. Keep it up

[styler]

welcome, that stuff is pretty tight, hope to see more

[Midnight]

The inkwork, despite the top one bending partway up, is head and shoulders above the rest of the work here, IMO, although I like the noir-ish head too. Keep going!

Mid.

btw, what's so great about mid-November?

[willpaxton]

All this is great you have a nice range of material here. Keepem coming i ejoyed lookin at those guys.

[Ben powis]

Hi all,

ChaoticKnight - Thanks man! Id like to work onto those pilot scribbles digitaly sometime and try to improve the clarity, thanks for your comments :)

styler - Thanks :)

Midnight - Thank you :) I enjoy working in pen and ink.

willpaxton - Im glad you enjoy the variety, I certainly do! Thanks :)

Here be a few more-like!

Some more pen & Ink:

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A fashion study from my sketchbook:

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And some very recent sketchbook work:

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Ola!

~ Ben

[Ben powis]

Howdy!
Here's another small update, some colour environment sketches from photoshop, i've been experimenting with custom brushes lately:

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Thanks for looking!
~ Ben

[Hyver]

i *love* the brushwork in this http://www.benpowis.net/images/thetieman1worksmall.jpg

last updaye was sweet ass too.. looks like your good busy, keep it up!

[mull77]

Like the caandle and the chair for some wierd reason (wierd cos i can't but my finger on why).

They look like a cross between an old victorian drawing and a modern comic one (mignola-ish).

Your last abckgrounds are cool as well.

[Kitsu]

Very strong black and white work, and composition. The random elements add a lot of life to these!

[Ben powis]

Ola!

Hyver - Thanks for stopping by the comment man, gota love painter 9!

mull77 - Cheers! I'm doing more work like that, ill pop some up soon!

Kitsu - Thanks! I love my random elements :)

Here are a few sketchbook photos, i've lost the install disk to my scanner - shock horror! :)

This scarecrow likes to fish...

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These are A4, left this one uncropped, I think its sometimes interesting to see these things a little more in context, maybe not :)

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~ Ben

[Midnight]

These are looking really good, you've obviously found a great style here (you bastard!).

I'd like to see some more depth in your traditional works, though - right now, they're pretty much all situated on one plane, and I think they'd look amazing if you get some perspective going on them.

Mid.

[Ben powis]

Cheers for your comments Mid!

Here are a couple of portraits done t'other day:

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Had a loada fun doing these,
Happy holidays everyone, thanks for all your comments,
Tune in next year! :)

~ Ben

[Hazamataz]

Love the last two traditional pieces. Really..really nice colours and painting style.

How did you do the white highlights on top? are these done in watercolour?

Infact I like your muted colours throughout (again I love those trees).

I agree with midnight, it'd be great to see some background, Like the trees put with the traditional charectors.

Keep it up!

[guggemmaneuver]

Love the last two traditional pieces. Really..really nice colours and painting style.

How did you do the white highlights on top? are these done in watercolour?
It appears to me that these are painted digitally, but that's just a guess.
ben: you've got some really good stuff going on here, i've got to say. it seems like there is a lot of mood / introspection / psychology that goes into your drawings and it's really cool to see that imaginative aspect.

crits: in the fishing scarecrow one, it appears that the watercolor may be warping your paper a bit, which definitely detracts from the quality of your scan. i hate it when that happens to me. in the portrait paintings, the one with the blue background has some facial anatomy issues: one eye is plainly bigger than the other. Also these could use just a dash of some of that background color. try to think of the caucasian facial skin as being somewhat translucent ... cheeks are different colors than eye flesh or the forehead.

keep up the great work! my favorites are http://www.benpowis.net/images/aviationsketch.jpg & http://www.benpowis.net/images/fashion1.jpg + those COOL ASS ink chairs... i'm a big ink guy as well :)
:yayca:

joel

[That fat kid]

hey ben, wicked stuff, you've got some eye for creation, try and keep this regular!

tfk

[glikster]

those scarecrows kick ass!!
that second portrait needs some help around the eye. He has no orbital or brow area, and that's killing the whole thing for me.

[Cup of Joe]

Really cool stuff Ben! Great ink work, and I love the scarecrows. You have a lot of creativity. Hope to see more!

[Kitsu]

Everything you posted on the 19th was great! I also like the portraits, but yeah some anatomy issues. Here is my attempt at a paintover on the second one:
http://kitsu.petesdomain.com/images/portrait-markup.jpg

Some of this stuff might just be how this person looks. Areas labeled with '?' are things I'm not sure about. Actually I'm not sure of anything ever, so don't worry if you disagree with some of this.

[Quicksilver]

:drool:

Where are yoouuu??? Your art work is so beautiful. It was such an inspiration to look at your SB in real life (and to meet you, of course! ;)).


Please post more....*puppydog eyes*

Also, will you be attending the next meet? It's this month! So I hope you stop by here beforehand, lol.

[madplanet]

You have a great storybook style that makes for some very interesting visuals. I really like the guy looking out the window (from the Nov. 27th post). The rain seems to be coming down in a paste. Like Guggen says, it makes for a good psychological effect and mood.

[Mika.K]

Awsome inking there.
I wish i could use inks that good. x_x

[lefran]

thanks for stopping by my SB , at the moment none of your images are showing up on mine, but ill repost for you some time tomorrow, hopefully theyll show up then :)my computer does that sometimes hehe

[archipelago]

You have an interesting style man, first off, this one is absolutely lovely http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=4944&stc=1&d=1152571234
Its simple yet complex at the same time :)
Your colours are mostly fixed in the midrange atm though, It flattens them out alot and makes the images seem grey and dull, try bringing some more saturation in there! Im a complete noob when It comes to colour though so you know...

Anyway, just keep it coming, very tasty :D

[Orahlith]

I really like that hut. I want to live there. The way to did it is awsome, paint under pen...it looks like a lot of detail is in the painting the way you did it but mostly it looks like color in the hill and your pen strokes define it. Awsome. What is the effect used in the hill? Something about it makes me think you didn't just use a round brush...

[voraz]

Nice start. I like the way you made those pages in post 23 look like a old print!
Cheers

[madplanet]

I have to say that I really like the feel of these drawings. You may just give Blacky a run in the "quirkiness" department. I may have missed your explanation of the Mulbury Hill project (if you even gave one), but they have a cool children's book look to them. Hope you post more of these.

[madplanet]

Hey, anytime you want to explain your Mulbury Hill project, lay it on us, it sounds and looks interesting. On that last figure, you should finish the face; she looks very incomplete with all the detail in the clothing and such. Still like it, though.

[lefran]

hey thanks for stopping by my SB =]

i love your environments at the top theyre awesome, also this is my favourite sketch of yours http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=4944&stc=1&d=1152571234 i also like the fashiony thing in your last post , its an appealing style to me =] anyways, keep posting id like to see more =]