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Ben Dewey has worked his magic on another fantastic piece: The X-Men’s Colossus, fighting The Brood. Colossus was created by Len Wein and Dave Cockrum, and is ©Marvel Comics. We read this and fell in love: Some of the artists here were even compelled to draw their own versions: And Natalie Nourigat: Ben Dewey produced this custom cover painting for the Hero Initiative’s latest benefit and he’s decided to make it count. The image in question features no less than 19 of the Avengers of past and present teams, assembled to help raise money at auction for retired and struggling comics professionals.
Ben started by looking at Wikipedia for the rosters of the Avengers in various incarnations and with the help of other studio members whittled his initially insane list of “every single avenger ever” down to a couple sticky notes filled with a manageable number of names. “It started as a way to challenge myself” Ben said, “I had done a Josie and the Pussycats cover for The Hero initiative before and I wanted to top that image.”  Initial Sketches  blocking in characters  More underpainting It took about 20 hours and in the long run Ben had to yield to a similar pragmatism in the process of painting; “Sometimes you have to stop before something gets over worked. I realized it would be tough to get it totally polished at the scale I was working and that I’d better put down my brush before I went nuts trying to render everything.”  Refined rough with some detail  Refined Rough 2 (cover detail) More of his work can be found the upcoming book BADASS! by Ben Thompson. He’s also illustrating the autobiography of former Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Zakk Wylde, and has a story in a Robert E Howard anthology coming soon from Dark Horse Comics. Ben updates his free web comic, Tales from the White Pony on Monday and Thursday. Ben Dewey found time between his comics and storyboards to draw the cast of The West Wing.
Ben Dewey recently attended the Zoo with his visiting family. Some of the animals held still and some were not as amenable to his sketching. As Ben says “The nice thing about sketching live animals is that you get the chance to work on both capturing information as it presents itself and using the internal modeling tools you need to develop as a comic artist.”
Continuing this week’s showcase of Archie Covers done by Periscope members for the Hero Initiative. The Hero Initiative is a charity providing aid to comics legends who find themselves in need. Today we’ve got Ben Dewey’s over-the-top interpretation of Josie and the Pussycats. Can an Archie cover rock any harder? No. No it cannot. Click to make enormous.
Ben Dewey inking “Blighter”, written by Jeff Parker for Dark Horse Presents. It’s free, go read it.
We’ve been working quite a bit with Ben Dewey, a local artist you probably haven’t heard of yet, but you will. He’s terrific. Besides being a badass cartoonist, Ben’s also a working musician. Here he is playing with Portland country favorites Emily Herring & Henpecked. Ben’s solo starts at around 1:15. |
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