Ben Templesmith (Sydney and Perth)
Ben Templesmith is an Australian commercial artist best known for his work in the American comic book industry - most notably "Fell" with writer Warren Ellis, published by Image Comics, where he helped pioneer a new format for commercial comics, and "30 Days of Night" with writer Steve Niles published by IDW Publishing.
Which is now a film which provoked a bidding war between film studios for the movie rights when the story was pitched a second time with Templesmith's artwork. As well as being nominated for multiple Eisner Awards three years in a row for his comic work, he has also created book covers, movie posters, trading cards, and concept work for film.
Templesmith draws all his art by hand, using various media including ink, pencil sketch, acrylic and watercolour and then scans in the art to computer. He then compiles the various elements in layers via Adobe Photoshop and adds photographic or textural elements from an extensive archive of reference material he's compiled over several years.
All colouring is done at this level, creating completed art, instead of using the general Anglo-American comics system of having separate people drawing, inking and colouring via computer. Unlike most new computer oriented artists, Templesmith still does not actually draw on computer, simply using it as a layering and colouring tool.
Ben looks forward to meeting all his fans at Supanova and will be appearing at both the Sydney and Perth events Saturday and Sunday from 11.00am to 5.00pm.
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