Friday, October 05, 2007

He - Pumpkin!



This model sheet of He-Pumpkin is my entry into Taylor White's group Halloween show, "October Shadows 2." The show is a collection of Halloween themed art by some amazing artists and will be on display at the private studio of 6 time Academy Award winner Rick Baker. The show runs from Oct. 13th through November 1st and do to the location, you need to make an appointment to see it if your interested. All the info can be found at Creature Features

The final piece is 15"x20" done in ink and marker on watercolor paper and will be for sale at the show and on the Creature Features website starting at 7:00pm p.s.t. on Oct 13th.

Here's the rough drawings if you want to see them.

28 Comments:

At 4:08 AM, Blogger Dougmian said...

Great expressions!
He is a pumpkin barbarian!
So nice!

 
At 9:13 AM, Blogger Alex Deligiannis said...

Oh man, the drunk one is great!

 
At 9:44 AM, Blogger Jeff Solway said...

these are awesome!!

 
At 10:36 AM, Blogger Todd Oman said...

what a great character Ben, and thanks for putting the rough stuff up as well.

 
At 11:10 AM, Blogger Scott Wright said...

So awesome!....now if only he was a toy!

 
At 3:10 PM, Blogger OV! said...

BB!

these are amazing drawings man

whoa...

>oVi

 
At 5:38 PM, Blogger Dave Dick said...

Really great drawings! Sounds like a cool show.

 
At 6:38 PM, Blogger samacleod said...

These are super cool. Wow. Hey man, I walked past your cube today, visiting the Krall man. Nice penguins. Those yours? I gotta formally meet you one day. Keep up the greatness.

 
At 7:41 PM, Blogger Shawn Escott said...

Dude!! You are too good!!! The pumpkin seed sludge is great! HAHA... Awesome!

 
At 12:14 AM, Blogger Josh 'Hat' Lieberman said...

Damn man, you never seize to amaze and or inspire me.
These are great, I think some poses work a better than others (If i'm being honest (but I'm unemployed and a college dropout so what do i know?), but just incredible work.

I was at Nick the other, and met Ray, big guy, I think he worked with you boarding on Danny Phantom, he was really nice.

Also, I re-worked my Foster's character test, did a second pass, I posted it on my blog if, if you have a sec I'd love to know what you think.

 
At 11:16 AM, Blogger Tapan Gandhi said...

this might be my new favourite piece of work from you.. well, until your next post i guess :)

 
At 12:49 PM, Blogger Ben Balistreri said...

Thanks so much everyone! Your kind comments are always appreciated!

Sam - Yah those were my penguins. I wish you would have stopped in and said hello. Next time your at the studio drop on by.

Josh - Yep, I worked with Ray, and he's a great dude.

 
At 4:10 PM, Blogger Will Finn said...

he's great. nice use of inner pumpkin slop for hair (with seeds even!)

 
At 6:07 PM, Blogger Jason Blower said...

Hey Ben, truly these are inspiring. Where do these great ideas keep coming from?

 
At 8:03 AM, Blogger Unknown said...

Hahaha... your characters are always so dang amusing! Great job Ben

 
At 2:07 PM, Blogger lennard schuurmans said...

wow man, i'm so impressed! nice variation of moves and i like the use of colour.
if you have time please take a look at my blog.
greeting,

lennard

 
At 4:19 PM, Blogger lennard schuurmans said...

thanx a lot for your nice comment, cheers,
lenny

 
At 7:51 PM, Blogger Geek Booteek said...

Holy crap dude! All I can say is WOW!!! Outstanding!!

 
At 12:16 PM, Blogger Luke in Progress said...

Great. Now I'll fear for my life every time I take a carving knife to the big orange.
Looks great though, rad expressions.

 
At 5:45 PM, Blogger Von Kreep said...

Hey Ben,
Wow! I'm so digging the spooky, kooky kreep!

 
At 5:02 AM, Blogger Richard Gaines said...

Wow! What a way to celebrate Halloween!!!! I really love this character. The best pose is the one where he's cocking his "bat"-le axe with his left hand extending forth in full foreshortening.

Gorgeous, I'll tell ya!!

 
At 8:27 AM, Blogger aintshakespeare said...

Man, these are too cool. Awesome job. I love the seeds looking like sweat and the bat axe. All of those expressions and poses... very cool.

 
At 12:13 PM, Blogger Joey Chou said...

these are sooo good. love the way you design his hair!

 
At 9:14 AM, Blogger SHANE PRIGMORE said...

Ha!! These are hilarious and beautiful. I love em. His BAT-tle axe is awsome!!

 
At 10:20 PM, Blogger Howard Shum said...

Fun design!

 
At 5:27 PM, Blogger Marcelo Vignali said...

Bwahahahah! This is too funny. I've gotta show this to my six year old daughter! She'll love it.

 
At 8:16 AM, Blogger Ben Lane said...

I want to make this into a jack-o-lantern next year.

Great Job!

 
At 8:24 AM, Blogger Mark McDonnell said...

Hey man,

I just wanted to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy Holiday season. Thank you very much for the inspiration . . .I really enjoy looking at your work and putting the pieces together. My best to you and your family,

MAC

 

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