Ben Templesmith

Ben Templesmith is an Austrian comic book artist. His most famous works have been 30 Days of Night and Fell. Templesmith uses pen, ink, acrylic paints, watercolours and Adobe Photoshop to create his work. Using these different mediums allows Templesmith to give his illustrations a frightening horror feel to them, for example his work wormwood (2006).

 

 

Templesmith, Ben. (2006) Wormwood Gentleman Corpse [pen, ink, acrylic paints, watercolours and Adobe Photoshop] Templesmith [online] available at: http://www.templesmith.com/faze3/ (accessed: 14 February 2011)

 

Templesmith use of mix mediums is what attracted me to his work. I find the mixtures of elements creates different focus points on each of his illustration such as the one above which gives the viewer several things to explore. I like how Templesmith has used the background image and brought it to the foreground to interact with the character he has created.

 

 

sources: 

Skinn, D. Comic Art Now (East Sussex: The Ilex press Limited, 2008)

Templesmith, Ben. (2006) Wormwood Gentleman Corpse [pen, ink, acrylic paints, watercolours and Adobe Photoshop] Templesmith [online] available at: http://www.templesmith.com/faze3/ (accessed: 14 February 2011)

‘Ben Templesmith’ (2011) Wikipedia. Available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Templesmith (accessed: 14 February 2011)