The following images are Illustrations created by Benjamin Taylor. Use the scroll bar at the bottom of this page to navigate to the right and view more pictures. If you do not see a selection screen to the left of this text, please click here: IS Portfolio.

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The image to the right is a Self Portrait created in Corel Painter for use in the 2007 Ringling Senior Illustration Show Poster. -

This is a magazine cover I did for the local Pittsburgh service Wheel Deliver. This illustration is currently still in print and in addition to being a cover, it also appeared as a glossy, post-card sized insert in Pittsburgh's City Paper.

It was created using Adobe Photoshop CS3 and Corel Painter X.

This is a T-shirt design I made for the Expresscion design contest. The design had to be black and white and formated at 8.5x11 in. The design went through a lot of changes, but most importantly, I wanted the image to stand alone on the surface of the t-shirt.

 

 

The tools used to create this images were brush and ink, black and white gouache and Adobe Photoshop CS2 (for touch up into digital). -

This is a game poster I made to promote a part of my senior thesis. The game for which this poster was made was a side-scrolling game featuring a witch (Tiv the Thaumaturge) and a series of demons. In addition to this poster, I made a detailed game document and a slew of assets. You can learn more about this particular project by visiting my game assets page.

 

This poster's final size was 24x36 and is available for print on CafePress. Click here for more information.

This picture was made to illustrate my experience at Pennsylvania's Nemacolin Woodlands Resort. My graduate program at Carnegie Mellon requires me to analyze various entertainment experiences and instead of writing another paper, I got away with painting this instead. And if being allowed to go on this trip wasn't good enough, getting to paint this as the final part of the assignment was like the cherry on the cake. All in all, it was a great experience. I'd recommend Nemacolin to anyone.

The picture to the right was created using Corel Painter X. -

This is the splash image for a "Jam-o-Drum" game I made during my first week at Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center. The two characters featured, Flora (top) and Mori (bottom), are the main characters of the game Blossoming Friendship, a game where two friends work together to save their garden from bugs. The image is round because the table on which it is projected is circular and must be viewable from 4 different user interfaces at the table. For more information on this particular game, please visit my game art section.

Created with Corel Painter

These are two paintings I did during undergrad that use the same acrylic technique. I paint a lot, but most of my paintings never reach my website. Honestly, it's very hard for me to make nice digital copies of traditionally created artwork, so nowadays I do everything completely on the computer. If you know some trick or easy technique for scanning/photographing paintings, tell me. Click on the work to see more detail.

These are both acrylic on cold press illustration board.

These are a couple of labels I made for a German soy products company called Sojaline (later renamed Soyaglobe). These labels would be printed on the packaging material and then folded into the bag shape. This was one of my first international projects. I did it during my Junior year of my undergraduate at Ringling.

In addition to Strawberry and Chocolate, I also designed a Pure Soy and Coffee flavor label.

In the Spring of 2008, I spent half a year working on two projects for Sharp Electronics Japan through Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center. I had the pleasure of working from the Asian Trade Center in Osaka, Japan with a team of three other technologists. My role was as an art director working with a team of two other artists based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and one freelance artist based in Tampa, Florida. This is the half sheet from that project.

This promotional print or "halfsheet" is folded so that the bottom half appears on one side, the other half on the opposite.