Monday, February 04, 2008

Welcome to the Batu cave restaurant

Meet Audrey
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The only orangutan at the Batu.
(I might post a bit of process work later)
The Chandelier Ballroom

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Inside the Batu restraurant, there is a very special cave...

(For those of you who have watched planet earth, you know where this is inspired from.)


Batu Restaurant

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Baboons run the show.







This was a series I'm currently working. It's loosely based on the Batu cave temple and its monkey inhabitants. I was planning to upload all of them but its taking me far too long so I'll upload em as they get done.

39 comments:

Cookedart said...

Holy crap dude - that looks awesome!

Lisa Tao said...

D: i knowwww
u got so much better with painting i think.. goood jobbbb teachhh meeeee

orange said...

maestro, just to reaffirm...these look amazing

tuning fork out -

Jonathan Topf said...

Way cool man, I like the bottom one in particular, colors, forms, and design all fantastic

jon

andrew said...

wow.....these are neat

arzu said...

ooh Ben!these colours are so great i want to eat them,Simply fantastic

Lubomir said...

Ben what the hell man, that monkey is too much, amazing stuff.

Unknown said...

Always nice to see something new from you man :D

Brandon James Scott said...

Dude! Sweet!

Daniel Chou said...

Teach me to be a better man Ben. ~_~

Lettie Lo said...

speechless. in a good way.

Shaz Enrico Lym said...

Well Done Benjamin!... Well Done...

Jinny Liang said...

Beautiful colours! I love the atmosphere you create in these~

Andrew Ross said...

Very very nice.

Anonymous said...

hey benn i really like ur stuff! beautiful as always :D

Emmanuel Briand said...

WWWWWOOOOOOWWWWWW... i'm a french drawer works in animation in france at ankama studio .thank you you re doing great work wonderfuls artworks sincerly and with my honnesty , bravo!

Kyri Kyprianou said...

i love your style! great soft colours...

Benjamin said...

Thanks everyone for posting your comments! :) always encouraging to see em.

Marco Bucci said...

real nice work!

Andre Barnwell said...

speechless! i sat here for a minute thinking of how to give you respects on this one but i can't muster up the words except point out how professional these look. i gotta know... how long you worked on these that you've posted?

willie real said...

beautiful. audrey has got some nice edges to her but she still feels soo soft. beautiful.

Sebastien Gallego said...

WOW! Ben you are a genius! Beautiful rendering!

Benjamin Plouffe said...

Glad to see you using the Pen tool to your advantage!!!

Shaz Enrico Lym said...

Wow ben... these are ridiculously good....

Emmanuel Briand said...

im so amazed
... no comment . you're ... so wow

Randy Bantog said...

wow, these look incredible

Hanna S. Abi-Hanna said...

Wonderful looking stuff man! I love your design and i love your color sensibility...

turcios curriculum said...

súper ilustraciones!!!

Pablo Espasandín said...

exellent blog! amigo

Jessie Ilham said...

that's aweeeesome man!

do you know that batu means rock in indonesian? and there's a famous mountain resort with that name?
just thought u'd liek to know.. :P

Kei Acedera said...

these are terrific Ben! lovely lighting and colors! the little guy down below is my favorite :)

Su-Yin -Décorateur said...

hey ben; you do amazing work!
Was just wondering if you were Malaysian too. Not many of us 'Huen's out there; I'm Su Yin Huen. I blog too; about food and pastries to be specific. Have you been to the actual batu cave temple? It's pretty awesome.
Swing by and leave me a message if you like. you could possibly be my long lost relative :P

abeoh! said...

dude, u are the shit.... glad i found ur blog!

Ame said...

Hi great work, i love the characters and colors, cool!

Skid Knee said...

you rule super hard at painting! great stuff, post more!

Joe Bluhm said...

Wow, this is very cool.

Hammy said...

Wow, these are really beautiful!! :) I'm from Malaysia so the name Batu Cave really caught my attention. It's a really beautiful place there alright. Thank you for sharing!

J said...

Awesome blog. Very nice stuff.

Amy Ryan said...

Hey Ben,

LOVE your work and am interested in working with you on book covers. Please email me at amy.ryan@harpercollins.com

Thanks!

Amy