Birds
Bird Doodles done on my Cintiq 21 UX.
posted by Ben Balistreri @ 7:49 AM
Friday, February 17, 2006
Hi! I'm currently a storyboard artist and character designer at Disney TV working on Wander Over Yonder! I just finished a 6 year run as a story artist at DreamWorks were I boarded on How To Train Your Dragon among other movies. I'm an Emmy Award winner for my character designs on "Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends". I've worked as a storyboard artist and character designer at Nickelodeon on Danny Phantom, and a character designer at Disney TV for too many projects to list. I've been nominated for 7 Annie Awards and have recently self published my first graphic novel: "Seaweed, and the Cure for Mildew." All work is is a copyright of me unless it's for some studio I'm working for.
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Previous Posts
- Unleash...THE KRAKEN!
- Page O' Badgers
- Anti-Matter Gal
- Annie Awards
- Seaweed Page Progression
- Title Cards
- Elephant
- Mildew
- Seaweed Roughs and Studies
- Phantom Horses
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22 Comments:
These are fantastic!
I don't think I've posted a comment yet on your blog, Ben, but this one GOT me! These are really beautiful designs, drawings, inks, color- the whole thing! Is this hand inked, then colored in Photoshop? What do you ink with?
Amazing stuff!
Um, you're really good.
MAC
Thanks so much guys!
Tom, I did these solely on my Cintiq 21 UX! No pens or paper at all. I'm using a program called Alais Sketchbook Pro 2. It's similar to Photoshop in that you use layers, but it's much more artist friendly cause you don't need to learn al the keyboard shortcuts to use it efficiently. It's also a much better sketching program as the pencil tool behaves more like a sketchy pencil then the solid paint look of photoshop. I did all the color in Sketchbook as well, again just using the pencil on an under layer. It's a lot of fun to just sit at your computer screen and start drawing away! I can't recomend getting one enough!!!!! If your interested I got mine through digitalgraphicsresources.com (you can find the link at wacom.com if I spelled it wrong.) They were good to buy from. There, that's my sales pitch.
really great birdies! i like the bottom row and the red faced guy on the right. nice variety!
LORD!!!!
Sooo Awesome Ben!!! Your work is incredible.. totally an inspiration to work harder!!!! Keep up the amazing stuff man!
Shane
yup...thats definitely good.
Great attitudes! Birds have always been a challenge for me. Nice job!
Delightful! They're so wonderfully cute I could eat 'em.
Ok, it seems pointless to try to top the other comments but these birds are just wonderful. Lively and unique. Great inspiration!
Awesome Ben.... Just Awesome....
Those are great Ben! My favorite is the yellow one on the right. He just saw Fozzie's poop from the previous post!
Dang, those are beautiful birds,Ben! Each one of them standing out distinctly with attitude and character. Man,you're GOOD!!! O.O
Ben Your birds is marvellous!
These are terrifyingly good! 100% Cintiq? Wow... Maybe mine is broken and I just don't know it!
hey Ben, these birds are fantastic. Like your work man. Anti-Matter Gal looks fun.
AWESOME bird drawings!! Love the expression and personality you give to each bird!!
Masterful!
wow these birds are so nice! i love the yellow one on the right with the big open mouth. I have a cintiq on order.. i can't wait to use it...i'm gonna link you.
Geez, these are awesome!
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