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bentonsblog bentonsblog wednesday july 08 2015 the gulegodt a tale of real monsters i had all but abandoned this blog but i wanted to make an announcement san diego comic con is starting tomorrow please drop by and pick up a copy of my mini comic the gulegodt the gulegodt is the story of a young boy and his older sister who live in colonial new england their little community is terrorized by a legendary creature that lives out in the woods the young boy and the village elder are set on protecting the village from evil that lurks outside come by my artist alley table dd 23 and pick up a copy for a mere 10 00 and tell me what you think the story was inspired by current events like the rise of isis and religious zealotry in our own country thegulegodt sdcc2015 posted by benton jew 2 04 am 1 comments sunday april 29 2012 the rise and fall of john carter and the monkeys from mars san diego comic con puts out a souvenir book every year and they ask both fans and pros alike to contribute artwork to commemorate an anniversary to some comic book character or creator my original plan was to send three pieces of art one for the 100th anniversary of tarzan one for the 50th anniversary of some classic marvel heroes and one for the 30th anniversary of love and rockets due to constraints put upon me by work i found myself with barely enough time to do even one i started on a tarzan piece but it wasn t working for me i started doodling on john carter and surprisingly found it much easier i was familiar with this character mainly from the recent movie and the old marvel comics adaption i also worked briefly on ilm s bid for a john mctiernan directed john carter many many moons ago my original plan was to do a digital painting but i just didn t have the time having had so much fun and artistic success with the recent rocketeer poster i decided to go back to good old pen brush and india ink and at least this way i d have a piece of original art to sell at comic con my original vision was to do john carter fighting off some 4 armed apes in profile on a tower lit in near silhouette with some rim light and a bit of fill but things changed i started with some thumbnails as i continued on with the roughs a picture started to come a bit more into focus i started to play a bit more with the details i decided to bring the camera down a bit to have a greater feeling of height as a danger element it also brought carter and the apes closer together in the composition as i started in with the inking i was having a lot of fun i got more into the rendering of the forms and playing around with the feathering especially on the main ape it kind of brought me back to my youth when my art was a bit more about that that is rendering the volume of muscles and folds than about an overall scheme when it came to the lighting i do admit it was fun getting lost in noodling and doodling after i finished i started to look at the piece a bit more objectively the simplicity and directness that i had learned from toth wasn t there there was no opinion as my old art school teacher barbara bradley would say what was i doing with the lighting and how did it contribute to the composition was the camera angle i eventually chose really the best one to do the job i d have to say no on both counts the piece was fun to render but was not as successful as the rocketeer piece i did last month don t get me wrong i like this piece but it wasn t nearly as good as it could have been perhaps i ll try it again but it better to keep in mind in the future that it ll take more than a lot of pretty rendering to make a picture work posted by benton jew 11 30 am 8 comments saturday march 10 2012 rip jean moebius giraud the art world lost another great one today with the passing of jean moebius giraud at the age of 73 i became familiar with giraud s work through a class on comics i took when i was in junior high school at that time i wasn t familiar with arzach or lt blueberry but soon became a fan of his beautiful work it was amazing to see the breadth of his imagination be it a scene in a wild space fantasy or a scene in the wild west no matter the subject it was always delivered with an easy grace that really underlined his knowledge of drawing and man he could draw anything i was lucky enough to meet him once when he visited ilm he was in the bay area shortly before his video arcade the airtight garage opened at the metreon in san francisco even in his later years he was always trying something new and trying to break through new barriers a really amazing artist posted by benton jew 1 02 pm 3 comments saturday march 03 2012 rip ralph mcquarrie just heard the sad news that legendary concept artist ralph mcquarrie died today at the age of 82 i just happened to be in the bay area this weekend the place i m staying overlooks berkeley where ralph lived i had the honor of meeting with ralph two times the first time was at spengler s one of his favorite restaurants where we had dinner with some friends while i was still working on the phantom menace i was on cloud nine this man had been an inspiration to me and to thousands of illustrators who do what we do sitting right in front of me quietly chowing down on seafood his work amazed me as a kid my brother and i poured over his work in the old art of star wars books and the beautiful portfolios of his work for the first three star wars films the books showed a lot of the work up pencil sketches and roughs he would do before working on the finished paintings i would look at those and kind of thought they might demystify the process of making the beautiful paintings he did if anything it made it even more mysterious as they were so darn perfect in their simplicity yet meticulous in the detail that night i felt like i had met a god someone anyone who ever did or wanted to do concept art for a living measured himself against and aspired to be like the second time i met ralph was at his home i was there with my friend jim we were in his studio looking at some art that he had done for a proposed forbidden planet remake irvin kershner was going to direct i was floored by the lovely simplicity if these little environmental paintings he didn t seem to think much of them but i thought they were great we asked him to join us for lunch at an indian restaurant down the road ralph at that time had a little bit of a skin problem and had some scabs on his forehead and he was a bit hesitant to be seen in public not because he was vain but because he was so embarrassed we persuaded him to join us but it struck me that here is a guy with phenomenal talent who inspired an entire generation of artists but he was still so humble and shy and unassuming that s what i will remember most about ralph we saw him as a monumental talent he saw himself as a simple ordinary guy posted by benton jew 7 20 pm 6 comments thursday march 01 2012 rocketeer and the wolfnazis in color here s the finish or at least close to the finish may have some touch ups posted by benton jew 8 19 am 11 comments monday february 13 2012 work in progress part 2 so here is the black and white inked version it was a pleasure doing something with real india ink again the original will be auctioned away to support the the hairy cell leukemia foundation the cancer that took dave steven s life and caps stay tuned for the colored version posted by benton jew 2 28 pm 6 comments tuesday january 31 2012 work in progress part 1 just thought i d show you some stuff i m working on i m doing an original piece of art celebrating the 30th anniversary of the rocketeer cartoon art professionals society is auctioning off original artwork to benefit the hairy cell leukemia foundation and caps activities this will be the first time i ve done a finished piece of art with real not digital ink in a couple of years i started off with a few quick doodles to get the basic idea i did a few more sketches to refine the poses and gestures of the main figures i finally refine a final rough of the rocketeer and betty here is the next faze moving towards the final pencil drawing i make a photocopy of the pencil drawings and i do a few practice runs on the inking style using my trusty pental brush pen i find it s a good idea to figure out the lighting and brush style in advance next posting i will get into the final inking hopefully i won t screw it up posted by benton jew 9 18 pm 4 comments about me name benton jew location los angeles california united states professional illustrator storyboard artist comic artist living in los angeles ca always had an interest in drawing and film since childhood drew my own comics and made little animated super 8 films with my twin brother growing up in sacramento ca went to the academy of art usf in san francisco started working at george lucas visual effects company industrial light magic around 1988 right out of school stayed there for 13 years doing art for feature films and commercials including ghostbusters 2 the mask the phantom menace men in black the mummy left the bay area for greener pastures and headed for los angeles on that fateful day of 9 11 dragging my girlfriend with me after becoming a freelancer i worked on terminator 3 day after tomorrow chronicles of riddick bolden rush hour 3 the incredible hulk side projects put together a self published comics anthology in 2004 called babes in space did an award winning short horror film called the collector in 2000 that played at several film festivals view my complete profile links randy reynaldo s wcg comics blog alberto ruiz blog angryasianman ronnie del carmen s blog john k s blog illustration art todays inspiration chimera hodeaniespeaks jamie baker s blog crazyasianman pbcstudios invisible ink my brother anson s site my brother anson s blog official alex toth site josh sheppard s site josh sheppard s blog rules of attraction maverix studios les toil s site russian art blog craig mullin s site carlos gimenez site the notorious msg monkeypeaches asian movies aint it cool dave s trailer page crooks and liars huffington post rotten tomatoes marcos mateu s blog strippers guide monkeyking s blog paul rivoche s blog stephen silver s blog chris wahl s blog cheek s blog dominic bugatto s blog chris carman s blog kelsey shannon s blog dan panosian s blog roberto zaghi s blog pierre alary s blog gabriele pennacchioli s blog trevor goring s site paul pope s blog alina chau s blog dave yee s blog eyekap s blog the 24 hour comic s site colin fix s blog randall b s blog fist a cuffs wayne lo s blog warren leonhardt s blog comicsenextincion bibliotecathule bobby pontilla s blog monkeyfeather s blog ted mathot s blog derek thompson s site derek thompson s blog warren drummond s blog mark andrew s blog michael cho s blog caps louie del carmen s blog eric ramsey s blog dave lowery s blog christian alzmann s blog bob mackenzie s blog gia lucs s blog japanese bug fights phil saunder s blog marc brownlow s blog julian allen s blog todd harris blog new denis bodart blog nednih diversions of a groovy kind art of the title storyboard central jeff parker s blog elizabeth breitweiser s page grant bridgestreet bronze age of blogs guns in the gutters ben caldwell s blog yaxin the faun labd con c de arte chiquirritipis entre comics the horror of it all mark kennedy comic historieta ilustradoresehistorietistasespaol deskartes mil john watkiss parka blogs hey oscar wilde it s clobberin time storyboard central storyboardart org conceptart org concept art world concept design workshop william a smith terry beatty s blog four color shadows comic reading library alfonso font filmsketchr mike vosburg art mike vosburg words the alex toth archives previous posts the gulegodt a tale of real monsters the rise and fall of john carter and the monkeys f rip jean moebius giraud rip ralph mcquarrie rocketeer and the wolfnazis in color work in progress part 2 work in progress part 1 it s a christmas miracle al jaffee honored at the annual caps banquet my interview at film sketchr archives may 2006 june 2006 july 2006 august 2006 september 2006 october 2006 december 2006 january 2007 february 2007 april 2007 june 2007 august 2007 september 2007 october 2007 november 2007 january 2008 february 2008 march 2008 april 2008 may 2008 june 2008 july 2008 august 2008 september 2008 october 2008 november 2008 december 2008 january 2009 february 2009 march 2009 april 2009 may 2009 june 2009 august 2009 september 2009 october 2009 december 2009 january 2010 february 2010 march 2010 april 2010 may 2010 june 2010 july 2010 august 2010 october 2010 may 2011 june 2011 july 2011 august 2011 september 2011 october 2011 november 2011 december 2011 january 2012 february 2012 march 2012 april 2012 july 2015