Tulips and Chimneys Valentine's Day illustration

At the beginning of this year I began working as a digital painter at an animation and concept development studio in Cape Town called, Tulips and Chimneys. This is an artwork I created as a promotional piece for Valentine's Day. The image directly below is the final piece.

Below is the original line drawing that I scanned into Photoshop to be painted. It consists of various separate line drawings: the central creature on the mound, the border, and the banner. All comped together in Photoshop. Other elements such as the foxes and the birds were added later. 

Below left: The thumbnail sketch. Below right: Pencil sketch.

The line drawings were done using a Uni-ball Pin 0.05 mm pen.

Bottom left colouring in Photoshop on the Cintiq24hd, and the final print on archival paper on the bottom right.

Star Wars variant issue #001

For the launch of Star Wars 001, a number of blank variant copies were sent to a local comic shop here in Cape Town. I managed to get my grubby paws on one and came up with this chap.

June Moleskine Sketches

Some sketches I did over about the course of a week this month. It's been cold okay, and the hearth is an awesome studio.

Some sketchbookin'

I went to Kirstenbosch Gardens the other day in Cape Town to do some drawing with my girlfriend, and a friend of ours, Juliette Bisset (Go check out her photography!). Such a super place, I really must get a Kirstenbosch card so I can go there more often!

(On a side note: Something really awesome that is currently under construction in Kirstenbosch is a canopy walkway designed by Juliette's brother, Christopher Bisset. When it is finally unveiled it should be pretty amazing. Check out pictures of it here.)

And below are some sketches from my sketchbook. I reckon I'm going to colour these first two guys below right.

Transvestisaurus

"Don't judge me. I'm beautiful... To my mommy."

Ugatnom: A Comic by Ben Winfield

This past weekend I went away with my girlfriend to Montagu where we stayed in some really awesome teepees at a place called Healing Holidays. On one of the days we decided to go for a walk through this beautiful valley to see some waterfalls that were apparently somewhere along the route. However, our expedition was cut short due to some rather intimidating baboon sounds ahead of us on the path. Hence, this story was inspired by true events. 

Tell me a story about him...

I got this awesome new sketchbook from my friends Danelle and Ben for my birthday last month, and I used it to bring this little guy to life. Tell me a story about about him in the comments below :)

Lobe Kid in Chains

An advert I did for "Arteechoke Studios" that can be found in the 2nd comic book printing of Cotton Star.

Comic work-in-progress

A comic I am busy working on with my brother, Mat Winfield.

Follow the project here.

Some Sketchbook Doodles