Benjamin Gallego

Here is the reason why I haven't posted in a while.
Third boy!
Pretty cute reason huh! :)

The Little Prince - Le Petit Prince

Working on an illustration of "The Little Prince" (Le Petit Prince) a classic of French children literature.
If you haven't read it yet, you should, I highly recommend it!

Here is a detail:

Mafioso at the Night Club

Random Sketches

Figure Drawing

I'm rusty!!

Brush Experiment

Hello everybody!

So here it is, I'm finally doing it! After years of using Painter, I've decided to give Photoshop a real try. This piece started as a brush experiment/emulation study using one of Aurelie Neyret's marvelous illustration (Aurelie, tu es fantastique!) and it evolved into a quick illustration.

I'm liking Photoshop so far! Nice textural brushes. I'll keep using it.

Sketching at the Zoo

...using an ink brush

Brothers Forever

A little drawing for my kids with a loose watercolor brush technic I'm experimenting with.

Mariachi-Dachi

A piece of fan art I did for my good friend Kevin Merriman He's making a comic book involving a Mariachi Band that ends up in Japan. Very fun story!

Influence Map

I saw this Influence Map on Kris Anka's blog and I thought: "What a great idea!" So I did mine. Very cool to gather all the artists who influenced me the most in one place! Here it is:

and here is the template if you're interested in doing the same: http://fox-orian.deviantart.com/art/Influence-Map-Template-174550753?

Reading Time

When you get home and you see this, how can you not be happy?! To Tanya, Thomas, Jonathan and Benjamin (he's in the picture too. look closely! :) )

Speed Painting

Friends

One night, I had this dream that my team of concept artists was attacked by an evil red eyed robot. The whole office turned into a gloomy green color. Everybody started crying like babies. Then I woke up.

I told my dream to the guys in the morning. Matt Armstrong drew this a few minutes later. He added a cool end to the story: me destroying the evil robot of doom with my laser saber!



How cool is that!?

Another portrait of me by Matthew, on the shoulder of a huge Robot this time (Matt likes Robots A LOT)



And another quick sketch of me during a meeting by the very talented Jason Kim



I just love the guys I work with

And not only because they draw pictures of me as a super hero! :)

Working with people you love and respect is priceless!

Pépé à la Plage

Gramps at the Beach

Last Cars Post

"Carifying" the World!