Those misty hills

Typography time

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Tibetan deamon

blowing off some steam with some exotic monsters. More to come.

FMP film

Theif and the Mountain Giant from Ben Tobitt on Vimeo.

I give you my all nighter.

Comming This Summer

What i have so far in my Final major project. I was thinking of makeing a cheezy trailer for my showreal. but that will have to wait. so for now hears some screen grabs of the exported scenes.
I will have the final film or whatever i manege to produce in the meager time i have, uploaded soon.

giants alive!

wanted to put more red tones in this one to convey the pissed off emotion of the giant without giving him a facial expression. I may give him a kind of echoy grinding sound to give him a voice but don't expect lines. "BLAAAARG!!!!"

the mountain king

Character for my fmp. Decided to go for a more samurai jack approach so I'm doin a fair share of the art using the pen tool in photo shop. Interesting to see how this all terns out.

Pastoral Landskapes

My dad will be so pleased.
Background art for my final major project. Used just quink ink for this one
That stuffs amazing. In this painting I was trying to get a sweeping and
mysterious quality to the landscape.

of wolves and men

I was determined not to do the usual left to right comic book transformation. I imagine that having you're bones and muscles shift and change would cause them to heat up considerably and be a rather painful process. So in this drawing I was trying to convey that feeling of animal rage and pain.

I usually don't use digital backgrounds but at the time of makeing this drawing I was unsure as to where the wolf was going to be. Once I decided it was going to be in the snow the rest just sort of fell together. Trying to get the feeling of the wolf towering over you in this piece.

On Werewolves and Lycanthropes

Going for a "last known photo" look in this picture. I like how the light's turned out trying to get the look of a flash camera being used the same time as the gunshot.

Much more experimental in this one. I wanted the wolves to convey a feeling of speed and animal ferocity. Using a brush instead of pen was a big help in this.


Working with shadow and line in this one. Also trying to figure out the proportions I have in mind for them.


My favorite of the wolf pictures Ive done so far. Geting that mix of wolf and simian in the body of the wolf was interesting. Also not making him looking like a skinny bear was a challenge. But he makes a nice shadow.

what the hell am i doing?

I should be animating now.

Laughable

more animal work. I need to do more work on my color theory, but its comin along from not using color at all.

so mysterious and sultry

What was i thinking. Nobody would let me near children's book covers. But that's not gonna stop me from trying.

I see you

a warm up sketch before iNknuckle down to some hard core animation time.

juju

Testing out my new tablet. I got into drawing
animals more often after following
the example of my good friend Grethe.
more to follow.