Ben Toupein

Evan & The Brave

Ben Toupein — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 11:33:23 +0000

A good mate of mine asked me to do the poster for his latest gig. The idea for the logo was something I was thinking about doing for a while.

Was good fun to draw.

Check out their site – they are really good.

http://evanandthebrave.tumblr.com/

Without Walls

Ben Toupein — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 13:12:38 +0000

Had a great time getting involved in the latest Without Walls show.

Was at Ambush Gallery in Waterloo a couple of weeks ago with some really good artists getting involved.

Check out their site here http://with-out-walls.com/

Everyone designed a T-Shirt to sell and also put some works up on the wall.

For the first time I had a go at building my own frames. It turned out pretty good.

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Saturday In The Slips. Dropped Catch.

Ben Toupein — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 06:07:59 +0000

Heres’s my entry for the Cricket Art Prize.

Trying to capture some of what it felt like to sit in the slips for hours and hours on a Saturday afternoon.

The tiredness. The pasty-white sunscreen mixed with the bright red sun burn. The annoyance as a terrible batter hangs around after a catch gets put down.

Wanting to get home so you could meet everyone later at the pub.

Done with pencil, paint and charcoal.

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Doughboy Pizza

Ben Toupein — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 14:49:08 +0000

Here is my entry for the Doughboy Pizza comp.

It started with the shape of a pizza in the bottom section and it went from there.

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Beers and Cake

Ben Toupein — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 05:18:54 +0000

My big sis is getting married soon. How exciting. She asked me do design her invitations for her. The theme for the wedding is a kind of retro carnival thing.

Here are some of the early sketches. I really like the designs of those big chair swing rides. I started out with that but then we decided to do something else entirely. I chucked them up here anyway because I liked the sketches.

Then my sister decided to go with the other idea we had going. Having the bride and the groom depicted on the panels of Circus Caravan. You can see the original sketch and then what it looked like when it was finished.

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Bash some clay

Ben Toupein — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:43:13 +0000

Have been mucking around with clay a bit recently. Started this guy when I obsessed with pictures of boxing. Was pretty fun to do, never really done any sculpture like this before.

Cracked up a little bit after the firing. Will have to sand it down and fill in some cracks. Will eventually try and paint it.

Next attempt will be trying to do some moulds and casting. Maybe not of this one. Its a bit brittle after a framed drawing fell off my wall and smashed it and my head while I was making it.

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Hair guts

Ben Toupein — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:27:14 +0000

Heres some works from the Thirsty Artist show last week. Was really fun.

All done with pen and ink and a bit of brush.

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Sittin on mushrooms

Ben Toupein — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:40:57 +0000

I drew these gnomes for a job a while ago. Kinda forgot about them until I was looking for a receipt for something.

The idea was to turn the little gnome into a kinda modern inner-city gnome.

They are pretty rough as they were just concept sketches.

To see them bigger, give them a click.

Where are the eyeballs?!

Ben Toupein — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 06:46:34 +0000

I love T-Shirts. I have about 900 million.

A friend of mine is starting up a new clothes label and asked me to draw something to put on a shirt.

I’m not really sure whether he is pulling on a shirt or taking it off? Either way he looks pretty creepy.

Just for kicks I included the original pencil drawing that turned into the final inked piece.

Hopefully ill see the finished result soon.

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Punched in the face area

Ben Toupein — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:14:49 +0000

Here is something I did a while ago. It was for a poster show.

The whole was done for fun. I was kinda obsessed with boxers and astronauts at the time, so I decided to pit them against each other. The other 3 pictures are the side attractions that would have run alongside the fight.

The idea was to make everything look those old photographs that have been hand coloured. I used really watered down paint and different kinds of ink and watercolours.

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