Musings & Ramblings

A titan in the field of illustration left us on Halloween day of last week.

I have been struggling to find the words on this one since as Greg Hildebrandt and his brother Tim were possibly two of the greatest artistic influences on me growing up, and throughout my art career to date. Beyond that they were also the most genuine and kindhearted ...

So the very first thing that I imagine you are wondering as you open this particular blog entry and double check that posted date is: "Did it really take Ben eleven years to paint this painting?". The simple answer is "No, it did not". It took just over one year, largely because of the day job and life itself making their own ...

Tomorrow marks the year anniversary of this website’s creation and to celebrate, I am making my first “Work in Progress” post. This has been requested more than anything else since the website launched, and while I have been looking forward to doing such a post, the opportunity has not presented itself until recently.

As a working staff and ...

New Year's day has come and gone and we find ourselves days away from closing out the first month in 2013. I like many others made the obligatory New Years resolutions, pondering ways to make life better for myself and those around me. While the ever popular “healthier eating habits” do in fact feature in this list, there is one in particular that ...

I have been contacted recently by a number of individuals wishing to know if I am the same artist responsible for such Magic: The Gathering cards as Chainer's Edict, Bottle Gnomes, and many others. The short answer is “Yes I am”. The longer answer tends to come in response to the question that invariably follows: "Why don't you feature any of ...

A week has gone by and we are faced with the loss of yet another giant in the illustration world. Jean “Moebius” Giraud passed away in Paris this morning at the age of 73.

His work spanned a variety of media and fans of all genres. His artwork would grace comic book page and movie screen alike, the uniqueness of his visions so complete that ...

A Legend left us yesterday. The Internet greeted me last night with the sad news that Ralph McQuarrie had passed away at the age of 82.

Few movies made their mark on my generation in quite the same way that the original Star Wars trilogy did. And while the simple timelessness of the story itself bears much of the responsibility for this, I ...