TEMPLESMITH: ORGINAL ART

Here's a peek at some of the great orginal art I own from artist Ben Templesmith. Ben was the artist for 30 DAYS OF NIGHT and he also works on several other titles for IDW comics.







You can see the progression of pencil sketches of the main character's face (Jenn) and then the basic outline painting, then the finished black and white, and then the final photo-shopped version with the effects added in later. Truly an amazing work. I personally feel that this is the very best example of Ben's artwork I've ever seen. And not just because it's my character.

Below is another original ink drawing from Ben that came along with all of this other great stuff you see here. This one below is an ink original of John Constantine from the book, HELLBLAZER. (It was also a film called CONSTANTINE with Keanu Reeves).



I'll post more orignal art later from Adijin and Frank Miller.

BEN TEMPLESMITH: DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP?

A long time ago, I used to have this crazy idea about starting my own comicbook production company. We called it PlasticAnimalStudios.com (and the link is still active).

Ben Templesmith, God bless him, did an amazing cover for our flagship title, "Digerati" and not only did he not charge me for it, he also mailed me the original art, plus a few other originals, and sent it to me from Australia. For free.

Yeah.

Anyway, the above image is from Ben's website. He was messing around with a cover idea for the book and I think it came out pretty good.

These days he's living off his royalty checks from 30 DAYS OF NIGHT and working on a few original books of his own over at IDW comics.

Nice guy. Great artist. Cool cover.

Here's the DIGERATI cover:





I'll post the originals and more of his work later.