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Project Updates and Art

by Ben June 26, 2016 in Art, Art Talk 0 comments tags: art, commission, manga, update

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I spent the weekend adding two new projects to Benkrefta.com's Projects page. The Artist's Guide to Drawing Manga, which is my new tutorial book due out in two or three weeks time, as well as my G7 Leaders character art - promotional illustration I worked on for Save the Children. Like all the projects on the site, they're more or less quick overviews or case studies of some of the client work I've completed over my artistic career which I hope visitors will find interesting :)

Both of these took way longer than I expected. Some days consisting of 16+ hour stretches at the computer to get things done before deadline or sleeping over at the studio, so it's a relief to have them all done and dusted. Here's one of the G7 illustrations I produced and given a black and white manga screen-tone overlay:

Political Manga Page

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Tegan Artwork

by Ben October 17, 2014 in Art 0 comments tags: art, artwork, commission, drawing, manga, portrait, sketch

Commission for Tegan.

tegan lolita sketch

Tegan's a fan of Japan, Dragon Ball Z and Card Captor Sakura, so it was cool to get a few references in there with her portrait.
tegan lolita cg
I think this must be one of the few times I draw a seated pose, and I like the colours with this one. Looking back, my only regret is that the shoes should be closed-toe, but like with every picture, you do what you think is right at the time ^_^'

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Jessica Artwork

by Ben October 16, 2014 in Art 0 comments tags: art, comic, commission, drawing, manga, portrait, sketch

Commission for Jessica. Plus initial sketch.Jesisca Bone sketchShe needed to look like she meant business and went with a foreshortend perspective with this. I don't know what the dinosaur bone is about? I'm sure it has some significance.
Jesisca Bone colourIs the style manga? I don't know. I'm not a caricaturist by trade so adapting the art I do to look like someone specific is always a challenge. Is it possible to convert real people's features into a simplified and stylized manga form (i.e. Pokemon, Dragonball) while retaining a likeness?

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