 Cover to the 30 Days of Night trade paperback by Ben Templesmith. Ben Templesmith (b. 7 March 1978) 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 provoked a bidding war between film studios for the movie rights when the story was pitched a second time with Templesmith's artwork. He has also created book covers, movie posters, trading cards, and concept work for film. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (648x1012, 417 KB) Cover to the 30 Days of Night trade paperback (November, 2003), by Steve Niles. ...
Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (648x1012, 417 KB) Cover to the 30 Days of Night trade paperback (November, 2003), by Steve Niles. ...
March 7 is the 66th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (67th in leap years). ...
1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ...
Fell is a comic book written by Warren Ellis and illustrated by Ben Templesmith. ...
Warren Ellis (born February 16, 1968) is a British author of comic books and graphic novels, well known for his acerbic personality and sociocultural commentaries, both through his online presence and his writing. ...
Image Comics is the third or fourth largest American comic book publisher. ...
30 Days of Night was a series of horror comics written by Steve Niles, illustrated by Ben Templesmith, originally published by IDW Publishing in 2002. ...
Steve Niles is a comic book author, best known for his 2004 horror hit, 30 Days of Night, set in Barrow, Alaska. ...
IDW Publishing (Idea and Design Works) is an American comic book company, created from the remenants of Dreamwave Productions, which went out of business in late 2004, early 2005. ...
Style
Templesmith is one of a handful of comics artists with an instantly recognizable signature style- in his case, a style uniquely suited to horror-themed subject matter. His style has proven so successful as to be copied frequently and to be one of the modern definitive horror and vampire looks in comics since 30 Days of Night. His style at times can be extremely sketchy in nature, far different from the norm of clean linework in most mainstream comicbooks.[1] Because if the untraditional nature of his work, his art at times instills a "love it or hate it" feeling in the readership. He is an acquired taste, with many older aged comic fans preferring the crisp more static linework of superheroic comics. 30 Days of Night was a series of horror comics written by Steve Niles, illustrated by Ben Templesmith, originally published by IDW Publishing in 2002. ...
However, that is a stylistic choice. In fact, Templesmith's drawings all contain the visual information necessary to succeed in telling the story. Characters (no matter how hideous they may appear) are distinct and clearly identifiable. You can easily understand where they are, what they are doing, and how they feel in any given panel.
His style alone is enough to mark Templesmith as a competent and diverse artist, but what makes him stand out in the field is the way in which he uses exaggerated style to emphasize character traits. In Templesmith's visual world, almost nothing is truly beautiful. However, the "good guys" (and there are a few in each story, but not many) all clearly look like normal human beings, for better or worse. As for the bad guys...
Vampires Templesmith's vampires, which began with 30 Days of Night, represent a fundamentally new way of depicting the traditional horror monster. The Templesmith vampire at rest is more akin to a great white shark stuffed into human skin than the traditional tall man with lupine features and long fangs. Generally, this means a bloated human form drawn on the page combined with what appear to be cut-out holes for eyes, the balls of which are a glistening black without irises- exactly like that of a shark. The mouth is a jagged slit, behind which can be glimpsed row upon row of impossibly long, lamprey-like teeth sticking out at all angles. When the vampire attacks, the jaw distends to impossible proportions, sometimes becoming larger than the head itself. In all cases, the form of the vampire distorts as it becomes more feral. The visual effect is of a being whose very existence violates the physical laws which the human characters are bound to by their normalcy. 30 Days of Night was a series of horror comics written by Steve Niles, illustrated by Ben Templesmith, originally published by IDW Publishing in 2002. ...
Techniques 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 using greyscale. He then compiles the various elements in layers via Adobe Photoshop and adds photographic or texture elements from an extensive archive of reference material he's compiled over several years. All colouring is done at this level, creating complete art, instead of using the general Anglo-American comics system of having a separate person drawing, then inking and then colouring via computer.[2] Unlike most new computer oriented artists, Templesmith still does not actually draw on computer, simply using it as a layering and colouring tool. He also has yet to learn how to use a graphics tablet, instead still using a mouse and a not so up to date Adobe Photoshop 7. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
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Current projects Currently Templesmith is collaborating with well-known British comics writer Warren Ellis on Fell at Image Comics, an experiment defining a new comic book format for the American market. He writes and draws his own semi-regular series,Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse with IDW Publishing and has long been associated with various projects at the publisher such as Tommyrot: The Art of Ben Templesmith, Singularity 7, and Silent Hill. He also provides covers for the Oni Press series Wasteland. Warren Ellis (born February 16, 1968) is a British author of comic books and graphic novels, well known for his acerbic personality and sociocultural commentaries, both through his online presence and his writing. ...
Fell is a comic book written by Warren Ellis and illustrated by Ben Templesmith. ...
Image Comics is the third or fourth largest American comic book publisher. ...
IDW Publishing (Idea and Design Works) is an American comic book company, created from the remenants of Dreamwave Productions, which went out of business in late 2004, early 2005. ...
Silent Hill is the title of a very successful survival horror video game franchise, produced by Konami and developed mostly by Team Silent. ...
Oni Press (founded 1997) is an independent comic book publisher based in Portland, Oregon. ...
Wasteland is a comic written by Antony Johnston, drawn by Christopher Mitten and published by Oni Press. ...
Selected bibliography
Comics The cover art of Hellspawn #1 by Ashley Wood Hellspawn is a relatively avant-garde spin-off comic inspired by Spawn. ...
Image Comics is the third or fourth largest American comic book publisher. ...
30 Days of Night was a series of horror comics written by Steve Niles, illustrated by Ben Templesmith, originally published by IDW Publishing in 2002. ...
IDW Publishing (Idea and Design Works) is an American comic book company, created from the remenants of Dreamwave Productions, which went out of business in late 2004, early 2005. ...
Dark Days is a comic book series created in 2003 by Steve Niles (writer) and Ben Templesmith (artist), and published by IDW Publishing. ...
IDW Publishing (Idea and Design Works) is an American comic book company, created from the remenants of Dreamwave Productions, which went out of business in late 2004, early 2005. ...
Criminal Macabre: A Cal McDonald Mystery is a 5 issues comic-book limited series created in 2003 by Steve Niles (writer) and Ben Templesmith (artist), and published by Dark Horse Comics. ...
A dark horse candidate is one who is nominated unexpectedly, without previously having been discussed or considered as a likely choice. ...
IDW Publishing (Idea and Design Works) is an American comic book company, created from the remenants of Dreamwave Productions, which went out of business in late 2004, early 2005. ...
IDW Publishing (Idea and Design Works) is an American comic book company, created from the remenants of Dreamwave Productions, which went out of business in late 2004, early 2005. ...
IDW Publishing (Idea and Design Works) is an American comic book company, created from the remenants of Dreamwave Productions, which went out of business in late 2004, early 2005. ...
Silent Hill is the title of a very successful survival horror video game franchise, produced by Konami and developed mostly by Team Silent. ...
IDW Publishing (Idea and Design Works) is an American comic book company, created from the remenants of Dreamwave Productions, which went out of business in late 2004, early 2005. ...
Image Comics is the third or fourth largest American comic book publisher. ...
IDW Publishing (Idea and Design Works) is an American comic book company, created from the remenants of Dreamwave Productions, which went out of business in late 2004, early 2005. ...
Fell is a comic book written by Warren Ellis and illustrated by Ben Templesmith. ...
Image Comics is the third or fourth largest American comic book publisher. ...
Game Books White Wolf, Inc. ...
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