Ben Topple's Radical Blog Zone

Cupcake Knight

2011-07-27T14:33:00.003-03:00

Cupcake Knight, fresh out of the oven on a quest for justice.
Commisioned painting, acrylics. When a client tells me to make whatever I want, this is what happens.

-Ben

Webhead 2.0

2011-07-27T14:09:00.003-03:00

Oh hi there. This is my entry for Project Rooftop's Webhead 2.0 contest. Since TJ is always drawing spidermen I finally cracked and decided to make one. Wish us luck in the contest!
-Ben

Curse of the Lizardmen

2011-07-21T19:23:00.004-03:00

Well it took friggin' forever but here we are. Originally I had made this for Teletoon at Night's pilot project, but things didn't work out right with the contest rules so it stands as a non- contest entry. Nevertheless it makes another piece of work to add to my ongoing blog. Hope you enjoy.

Apple Swordsman

2011-05-20T20:20:00.001-03:00

New painting. enjoy!

Acrylic Mayhem

2011-03-08T11:09:00.004-04:00

Brand new flavored fruit drink? Actually, it's a character from my last attempt at the 24 hour comic challenge. I managed to get 24 pages done in pencil during the 24 hour time limit. I later inked it for kicks. Maybe I'll post it at some point.
Enjoy!

-Ben

:D

2011-03-07T16:09:00.002-04:00

I'm finally updating the ol' blogger! Here's a little sketch I made for my girlfriend. She lives in the UK right now, so it's important to send her some sketches!
stay tuned for some ACRYLIC MAYHEM.

~Ben

Demon's Blood

2010-10-26T18:02:00.004-03:00

Scan from a fantasy painting I felt like doing. I've been practicing a lot with acrylics lately to make myself more employable. Hope I don't go homeless.

Fire Wizard

2010-09-16T15:01:00.002-03:00

Sketching a character for a story I'm working on.

Sketches!

2010-09-10T11:01:00.007-03:00

KaBLAMH!

After a long time of not posting anything, I have decided to drop off some silly sketches, hope that's OK with people. It's been a busy year, and blah blah, but one thing's for sure, it feels good to at least post something. I have the tendency to start a whole pile of projects and not finish them fast enough :(

next time expect some colored work, and future acrylics, and some inked goods!

-Ben

Gor Sorgoth's Domain

2010-02-18T19:26:00.005-04:00

Deep in the great and terrifying Magni Marsh lies the foreboding Lair of Gor'Sorgoth, the Magni-Toad Prince. Concept by my brother Dan. Expect more Gor in store. for sure.

-Ben

RaadSk8in'

2010-02-12T16:47:00.001-04:00

From the dark recesses of my mind... I give you this!

Piracy

2010-02-09T21:52:00.003-04:00

YARRRH!!

Funny thing is, I don't really like pirates all that much. I was listening to a lot of 3 Inches of Blood and making fun of the Johhny Depp movies and decided I wanted to do this.

Also I recently have decided that I'm a terrible person to have working at a music store, because I tell people to pirate their albums and just send money to the band. Apparently bands only make like a buck when someone buys their album at a place like, oh I dunno, HMV or something. now THATS piracy.

RYAARGH!

-Ben

Catalogue Comic

2010-02-08T09:02:00.001-04:00

Issue #2

http://cataloguecomic.blogspot.com/2010/02/youre-on-menu.html

my pages: 1, 4, 15

can't wait to start the next one!

http://bentopple2.blogspot.com/

2010-02-05T09:31:00.002-04:00

Just a quick post in between my usual work, I'd like to point out that I have moved several pieces from my main blog to a secondary blog I have created. I've been trimming the blog lately, mainly in an effort to keep things tidy.

The location is:

http://bentopple2.blogspot.com/

More Practice

2009-12-02T20:39:00.002-04:00

Done with the inspiration of Chrono Trigger in mind.

Swamp

2009-11-06T11:07:00.001-04:00

Because I really like working with the wider format, I decided to have some more fun with rough sketching in photoshop and amping it up a bit. I was thinking a lot about Castlevania.

-Ben

Practice Round

2009-11-01T14:56:00.003-04:00

Recently, I've been quite inspired by my college pals and their work, so I've been sketchin' in Photoshop a lot. here's a quick round of sketches!

-Ben

Beastie

2009-10-13T21:03:00.003-03:00

A couple sketches based off of the beast of black flames. Perhaps minion of his.

Vile Beast 2

2009-04-26T09:38:00.003-03:00

Here's the happy little fella, painted in Photoshop.

Vile Beast

2009-04-12T23:32:00.003-03:00

Hi. It's been a long time since I've managed to post anything at all. work sucks :( Thank goodness for cool girlfriends.

Brooke and Friends

2009-03-15T12:02:00.007-03:00

Hi! This is a cartoon picture of my cute girlfriend and her cute friends in Ottawa. She and I worked together on this one. I enjoyed working on this one quite a lot! I went to Ottawa to visit her before, and I'm pretty sure it looked exactly like that. Yes!

-Ben

Invite #1

2009-01-31T00:50:00.008-04:00

Hi. Ever design a wedding invitation for your sister and get totally carried away? ...oh. well I have! take a look! I'm learning painter and discovering what it can do, and really liking it. And yeah, a couple weeks ago I was at my friend's house, and he showed me a colored pencil drawing I'd done in first year of college. It had the sea and clouds, and ridiculous cartoon characters having a battle. A Banana Pirate vs a Chicken Snack Wrap holding a shank to be exact, but that's beside the point. Point is, the sky blew my mind, and it was thanks to the teachings of the wizard of painting himself, Ed Huner. I did my best to remember everything he'd taught me when I made this. So for me, it's kind of a step back through the dark haze in my mind to find forgotten gemstones of memory. delicious ones. I mean hey! the snack wrap was a goddamned force to be reckoned with! So here's to Ed, who's teachings inspired me, and all my college pals to kick some ass.

-Benjamin

Havin' some FUN

2008-12-03T19:44:00.004-04:00

Here is a cartoon of a guy holding a turtle and one of a whale having a birthday. I ask my girlfriend for ideas to draw sometimes and she comes up with a lot of inspiration for me. Isn't she the best? did 'em both up at the corner store, yup ^_^

-Ben

Ride

2008-11-04T11:50:00.002-04:00

It's fun to imagine. enough said.

Ferocious Battle

2008-10-30T19:22:00.004-03:00

My girlfriend likes the old Pokemon games on Gameboy, so I made her a little sketch of us battling! I guess this is what would happen. Right? thats Kanghaskhan and his baby versus Brooke's Arcanine.

Fruity Radness

2008-09-30T21:58:00.003-03:00

^_^ Here we go again! lately I haven't been posting too furiously because all I seem to do is work and sleep these days... but this time I have just a fun little doodle I made for my friend TJ Bragg. Inspiring artist, hard workin' man, and fellow shasta beast, I recommend you check out his stuff, at http://wakemusicalarm.blogspot.com/ . ... so yeah just have some fun. enjoy.

TyrannoGoat Epic

2008-09-04T14:21:00.004-03:00

Hi! This is the color version of the previous sketch, made for the super radical Brooke Cameron. It was a lot of fun wickedsmithing this one. My pal Liam showed up and we bombarded it with filters. yay!

TyrannoGoat

2008-08-24T11:24:00.004-03:00

Hi, This is some line work of a concept I'm working on for a very special lady. That's Brooke, riding the TyrannoGoat, likely bringing doom to a grotesque enemy horde.
I'll be getting to some coloring. Most fun I've had in awhile.
I challenge everyone to make something hybrid too!

Guardian of the Forest, Death to Evil Men

2008-08-10T20:09:00.004-03:00

OK so this one time this really pretty girl tells me a story about a creature who stalks in a certain forest nearby.
To me, it seems this creature is a shape-shifting guardian of the forest, bringing death to those who would pollute or befoul the sanctity of it's home. It carries a grim ward which yields the skulls of it's victims to ward off those that would dare enter the forbidden realm. In this particular rendition, it kind of looks like the ferocious offspring of Chewbacca, an owlbear and a jigglypuff. I raise a pint to his efforts!

I like charcoal

2008-07-24T12:13:00.005-03:00

Here's a festive little diddy I cooked up this mornin'. Inspired by the fabulous land cards of magic the gathering and I want to be like Jack Hamm now. I know, I'm going to eat ham sandwiches until I become him. A man's got to do what a man's got to do. maybe I should get some breakfast.

I'm just having fun!

Demo Reel

2008-07-02T19:28:00.005-03:00

Back again with another upload, this time it's the animation demo reel. I have studied for a few years at NBCC and this is what I have assembled. I'm still working hard and am enthusiastic about making more animations in the future, and getting a job.

Portfolio

2008-07-01T12:13:00.016-03:00

This is a collection of my portfolio pages I made while in school up at NBCC. I decided it would only be right to post them here, especially since my website won't work properly.(cursed server) So yeah, these pages to me are just the beginning of what I can do, as I continue practicing, and hopefully finding some work to boost up my skillz.

Me Make Blog

2008-06-19T14:43:00.000-03:00

School is almost over, so I'm starting a blog. Starting with a picture I made(above) and this text here. I'm not sure what people put on blogs, but I'll update some more images and some animations and stuff later. So... this is it, going to get my website up tonight too.

...

HRUAAAHHH!

-Ben