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Digitally Colour Character Art with Photoshop

by Ben September 25, 2015 in Art Talk 0 comments tags: art, artwork, Ben Krefta, drawing, photoshop, tuition
For future reference, here's my ad for local art tuition in Kent:

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One to One Tuition using Adobe Photoshop to create and colour character artwork by experienced anime and manga style artist and author Ben Krefta.

Ideal for art university students, anyone interested in digital art, video game art, manga, comics and traditional media illustrators. Students are expected to have a minimum basic understanding of computers and Photoshop. Students will also need to have their own computer or laptop with software and a graphic tablet. To practice techniques in their own time.

Location: At his private art studio in the centre of Chatham, Kent (or can travel to student at an additional pence per mile rate).

Cost: Lessons are £60 per 3 hour session. There are 3 sessions to complete the 9 hours worth of demonstrations. Students are expected to take notes during these demos.

For further information, please contact Ben Krefta. You can Google him, to see further examples of his artwork, or visit benkrefta.com

 

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Body of work online

by Ben March 23, 2015 in Blog 0 comments tags: art, Ben Krefta

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Selection of screen shots featuring some of my web things...

'About me' https://about.me/benkrefta also covers most of my web presence.

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Hitachi Manga Girl

by Ben August 21, 2013 in Art 0 comments tags: anime art, Ben Krefta, character art, manga girl

Hitachi Manga Girl

She’s an original character based on the EMIEW Bot.

 

Finished coloring Hitachi Girl in a anime cel style.

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Hitachi Girl Sketch

by Ben July 16, 2013 in Art 0 comments tags: anime, art wip, artwork, Ben Krefta, emiew, hitachi, manga girl, robot

Hitachi Manga GirlAnime Girl based on Hitachi’s EMIEW 2 robot: http://youtu.be/6Jb9oJY0Fe8

This has been a W.I.P for months and no doubt will continue to be for a few months more >_< Can’t wait to get through my to do list and finish these drawings.

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Deathnote Fan Art

by Ben July 13, 2013 in Art 0 comments tags: anime, art wip, artwork, Ben Krefta, character artwork, death note, fan art, manga

Deathnote FanartDeath Note fan art Work in Progress. Still need to ink and then colour. Might tweak a few bits also.

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Cintiq Manga Artwork

by Ben July 03, 2013 in Art 0 comments tags: anime girl, artwork, Ben Krefta, Character Design, cintiq, cintiq 13hd, graphics tablet, manga, photoshop, wacom

 

Wacom girl art

Cintiq Girl finally finished :)

In May I was working at the Wacom stand at the MCM comic expo in London. I created 'Cintiq girl' especially for the event and spent most of my time there demonstrating the new Cintiq 13HD graphics tablet screen combo, which was pretty cool!

On the Friday I tried out Manga Studio 4 (Now known as Clip Studio) to digital ink her. It seemed like an ok program, but not sure I’d use it again and I couldn’t figure out if there’s a way to create anti-aliased lines? I then spent the weekend working on the colours in Photoshop CS6 in between chatting to customers, but still needed a day to finish after I got back.

Also wanted to see how my new laptop handles large Photoshop files. This one is about 1.5GB! (this image is 6% actual size) and it seemed fine for everything other than smudge tool.

Thanks for checking it out!

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Back from Japanorama

by Ben May 06, 2013 in Art Talk 0 comments tags: anime, anime convention, artists, Ben Krefta, comic convention, japanorama, manga

It was my first time attending a convention-like event at the National Space Centre as an artist. I probably wouldn’t have considered it had I not been invited but ‘twas a cool experience and was really nice to meet fellow manga inspired artists and fans alike.

I spent most of my time in the Artists Alley along with talented artists: Chie Kutsuwada, Laura Watton-Davies, Jodie Azhar, Emma Vieceli and Dock, selling postcard prints of some of the character pin-ups I’d worked on and chatting to fans about what I do and art-related things.

I’ll probably attend a few more similar events in the future to get a greater feel for the whole con-going experience and see how they compare :)

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