Monday, October 3, 2011

Ben's birds


Here's my collective post for the theme "Birds Birds Birds".  It features Black and White from Tekkonkinkreet, a favorite film of mine. I've wanted to draw these guys for a while now and I haven't drawn a city-scape in ages so I thought I'd try do the both here.

And as always I tried something new here too. I reversed my halftone dots, so instead of using the actual dots themselves I used the area around them. Just thought it would give me a more 'square-er' feel when sorting out the building silhouette.

I had a lot of fun with this one. I kept it B&W for obvious reasons. Since the theme was about birds I tried my best to keep them as much a character as Black and White are in this piece.  I like the idea of the crow resting on blacks club and White playing with the only dove in the whole city.

White's imagination is a great element to play with. In the film about half the things he's interacting with aren't really there and some times he just floats in mid air. I thought I'd have him play with a dove that may or may not actually be there, that's up to you.

I'll blog again soon, laters!

9 comments:

  1. Awesomeness! Ben I forgive you. :P

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  2. I really like the kid on the far left and the birds are excellent. I'm still in the habit of making the wings so uniform, where as these are so much more, loose and organic.

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  3. woah that's really REALLY nice!also awesome film.

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  4. cheers Andrew i enjoyed drawing those birds. Thanks Sophia, its a deadly film!

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  5. great piece Ben, must check out this film as well, it sounds mental. Nice to see some gorram backgrounds!

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  6. Ah man u gotta watch this film its DEADLY! and thanks and yeah it was nice to draw some gorram backgrounds!

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  7. Great piece Ben! Love Tekkonkinkreet!

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