Lost in the Woods | Ben Powis Illustration Blog http://www.benpowis.net/lost Blog of Illustrator, self publisher and comic artist, Ben Powis. Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:07:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 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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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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afarsitepic

I have just launched a brand new World of Afar site at www.benpowis.net/afar!

Turtle Guitar is online and free to read for all, it will be followed over the coming weeks by Where Grows the Bitter Herb as the story is released over the coming weeks, a new piece of the story every Monday! Visit the World of Afar today and check back for regular updates, including some sneak peaks into the mysterious story number three…

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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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Explore the World of Afar in this interactive choose your own adventure game!
Your loved one has been captured by the evil Whild Tribe, do you have what it takes to track them down and rescue her? Run out of energy and you will surely fail, some roads lead to certain doom, but if you make the right decisions you might just be in time to save the day!

You can also play this game on Newgrounds.com.

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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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Subterranean Sml
The world beneath the wishing well, a bit of experimenting in this piece, a couple of new things learned on the road to better work :)

Click for a bigger view!

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Propogate“An ambitious farmer explores ways to feed the villagers of Afar by propagated farming.“

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