Lost in the Woods | Ben Powis Illustration Blog » Pictures http://www.benpowis.net/lost Blog of Illustrator, self publisher and comic artist, Ben Powis. Tue, 22 Mar 2011 11:05:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 HOOTing New Year http://www.benpowis.net/lost/2011/01/hooting-new-year/ http://www.benpowis.net/lost/2011/01/hooting-new-year/#comments Sun, 09 Jan 2011 14:22:44 +0000 Ben Powis http://www.benpowis.net/lost/?p=661


Happy new year to you all!
The last few months have been doodle packed and extremely busy! There will be much more to share in the coming year, but in the meantime I give you Hoot! in it’s full glory, if you want to pickup a print copy, along with a bunch of other fantastic stories, grab 8: A Kid’s Book Anthology. The guys over at the illopond are hard at work on a second anthology based on Steampunk, the stories are looking very exciting, go take a look!

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Hoot! is a new 8 page story, you can read it today inside 8: A Kid’s Book Anthology. A collaborative project I have taken part in with a bunch of other illustrators and story tellers. The project has been put together over at illopond.com,  the site is now open for anyone to join in the fun. Come along and start a self publishing project of your own, share your work or just peruse everything else on show. Find out more about 8: A Kid’s Book Anthology by clicking here, buy a copy today by clicking here!

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]]> http://www.benpowis.net/lost/2010/10/hoot-2/feed/ 0 Moonlight Serenade http://www.benpowis.net/lost/2010/09/moonlight-serenade/ http://www.benpowis.net/lost/2010/09/moonlight-serenade/#comments Thu, 30 Sep 2010 09:35:47 +0000 Ben Powis http://www.benpowis.net/lost/?p=641




An album cover I completed a few months back, more details on the project to come when it gets released… :)

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Been very busy lately so the blog has been quiet, here is something new for me, a bit of dame development art. I won’t say more than that, but if I ever get the chance to put in more work on this personal project it may see the light of day! :)

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]]> http://www.benpowis.net/lost/2010/09/whats-inside-the-mansion/feed/ 1 Slugs, snails and puppy dog tails… http://www.benpowis.net/lost/2010/07/slugs-snails-and-puppy-dog-tails/ http://www.benpowis.net/lost/2010/07/slugs-snails-and-puppy-dog-tails/#comments Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:07:30 +0000 Ben Powis http://www.benpowis.net/lost/?p=619


Hello everyone!
Here are some recent pictures created for a storybook proposal. These were completed on a short deadline, it was great fun to jump right into idea generation, create the character, then draw him interacting with different objects. Click each image for a bigger view!

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The paper moose patrols the borders of sketchbookland, beware his smokey snort, guard against the rattle of his crusty paper-antlers.

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]]> http://www.benpowis.net/lost/2010/07/paper-moose/feed/ 1 More from ‘The Waste Land’ http://www.benpowis.net/lost/2010/07/more-from-the-waste-land/ http://www.benpowis.net/lost/2010/07/more-from-the-waste-land/#comments Tue, 06 Jul 2010 13:07:49 +0000 Ben Powis http://www.benpowis.net/lost/?p=610


I have lately been keeping myself very busy, although I have nothing new that I am able to show for a while, so I am going to put up another page from my graphical interpretation of the Burial Of The Dead by T.S. Elliot, I give you fear, in a handful of dust.

My graphic interpretation of ‘The Burial Of The Dead‘, the first quarter of ‘The Waste Land‘ by T.S. Elliot which is featured in issue 22.1 of the Gulf Coast Literary Journal. You can check out the whole thing by picking up a copy of the magazine.

Also, to mix things up a bit and show a little bit of my process here on the blog, here is one of my rough pages from when I was working on The Waste Land project. This page looks very similar to the final, which isn’t always the case, we were happy with the atmosphere captured in this sketch and wanted to maintain that in the final artwork. My roughs are messy.

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]]> http://www.benpowis.net/lost/2010/07/more-from-the-waste-land/feed/ 0 The Butcher, Baker & Candlestick Maker http://www.benpowis.net/lost/2010/05/the-butcher-baker-candlestick-maker/ http://www.benpowis.net/lost/2010/05/the-butcher-baker-candlestick-maker/#comments Wed, 05 May 2010 09:53:05 +0000 Ben Powis http://www.benpowis.net/lost/?p=603


professioncardsDenny Nuts the local butcher, Hilly Bunn the friendly baker and Arthur Wicks the candlestick maker. Click for a bigger view!

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id-camp

I don’t often work in greyscale, so I worked up these little drawings just to remind myself how much fun I can have with it. They are: Adventurer’s Tent, Forest Dungeon Entrance and Woodland Campfire. These three pieces are available on illodeli.com under a single use license, if you are into that kinda thing!

id-dungeonentranceid-campfire

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Happy Easter everyone!
Today we have been decorating eggs to get into the spirit of things, here is my little illustrated egg. It features a house with it’s own letter box, a rope bridge, a wishing well, a large tree, a holiday cottage on stilts complete with washing line and a fishing pool (below the bridge), everything you need for an adventure!

Egg World


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