Apprentice. Apprenticeships.

So, as I might have mentioned in an earlier post, I'm apprenticing to a woodblock printer in Ogunquit Maine. His name is Don Gorvett, and he does an outstanding job at most prints. He is a reduction woodcut printer, so each edition is a alone of a kind and can never be reproduced. (A reduction print is the same a suicide print, you have one chance, and one chance only) Each of his prints run from 4 to 9 reductions, which is insane. You should check out his website to see what I'm talking about. 

Anyways, I'm living with him for the next two months, and I'm uploading a few pictures now to show you how the place looks. I'll try my best to update every time I either pull a reduction, or do a major amount of carving. (I need to be in the studio to do this, because his house doesn't have internet)

Well, here we go! (A short tour of what I'm going to be dealing with for the next two months)

Downtown Perkin's Cove,  left of the bridge.

Downtown Perkin's Cover, right of the bridge.

Don's house/Where I am staying. A true cabin in the woods. 

My bedroom, part one.

My bedroom, part two.

I even get my own personal bathroom!

Anyways that's all for now, I'll upload more next time I'm in the studio!

Till next time~

-Ben 

V.V.-Short Comic Preview

Sneak peak at my next short comic, "Victorian Vigilante" based off the song (of the same name) by the band Abney Park. You can listen to the song below.

The Comic~!

It will be up shortly, well, at least photos of the finished drawings will be. My computer is dead, and I am currently having to use the computers in MICA's Illustration department. (Where I am working)

Till next time~!

-Ben

Figure...Drawings?

So in case I forgot to mention this somewhere, I am taking life drawing classes here at MICA over this summer with Laini Nemett, well, morel like ending in a week, but eh, oh well. Here are two things that have come out of it so far. (note: these are two of probably hundreds of drawings I have done in the past month or so, they are the most complete/ my teacher decided to take pictures of to put on her blog?)

Roughly two hours, Graphite and Charcoal. 18"x 24" Model: Lara

Three hours, Charcoal, 29"x 41" Models: Michelle & Niki

(I know both their heads are too small, sorry. I didn't realize it until it was waaaay to late to change anything without having to adjust major portions of the drawing) 

Well, if I get around to taking pictures of anything else, or I get through some pages in the comic which I am drawing for the final (fuck me right? two weeks to do this? No, 6 days. DX) 

Till next time~!

Ben

Mindless things

A quick one day Lino Cut, it's going to be wheat pasted around Bolton Hill. 

till next time~

-Ben

Final Prints And Other Oddities

These are some images that I forgot to upload before the end of the past semester. whoooo hooo!

Half of one of my Intaglio finals. Diptic with "Into The Woods"

Half of one of my Intaglio finals. Diptic with "Into The City"
 

Remember "Path of Life" form way back when? yeah this is how it looks hung.

This was the final display for my comic, it includes all of the steps that went into making it. SO MUCH WORK @__@

Our Elements teacher brought in hand made dough and fresh pizza ingredients to the final crit. So we made amazing delicious pizza while we talked. fun stuff. 

That's all for now, I'll be back soon~

Ta ta!

-Ben

The Disparate Apology

(that ended up being the title of the comic I wrote for Elements/Drawing)

HERE IS THE ENTIRE THING!

 

  

And that's the end of it :D

Till next time~!

Drawing for the first time

at least for the first time since I started this semester. Seriously, I haven't objectively drawn anything since last semester (besides in my sketchbook) 

Here are some things I did in Drawing, clothed figure models in many 20 min poses, then me screwing around until something looks decent.

Figure drawing once again! 5ft tall sheet of paper. Charcoal and Soft Pastel.

Favorite detail of previous drawing.

Another 5ft drawing, it was supposed to have a narrative... yeahhh

See any narrative? I'm don't either. Charcoal and soft Pastel

Pastel dust!!! Prettier than the drawings :D

Like how I was completely wrong about my prediction which I made last post?

Till next time folks~!

-Ben