Ben Heine is a Belgian artist known for blending photography and drawing in unique ways. Some of his most famous works include his "Pencil Vs Camera" series, where he combines photos and drawings, and "Digital Circlism," where he creates portraits using only circles. Heine was born in Ivory Coast but has lived in several countries and is fluent in multiple languages. He studied art and journalism formally. Through innovative series like "Flesh and Acrylic," where he integrates models into paintings, Heine has gained a large international following for his creative works.

1. BEN HEINE

3. What do we know about Ben Heine?
• Ben was born in 1983 in
Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Belgiam
where he spent the first
seven years of his life, with
his parents and three sisters.
• His father was a commercial
engineer and his mother a
choreographer and a dance
teacher.
• when Ben was little he liked
sports, music and spent time
with his friends.
• Heine started drawing at 11
year old and quickly
understood that graphic art
was a powerful tool of
communication and
expression.

5. Academic
Background and Love
for Languages, Art
and Music
• Heine has studied in different
countries, including Ivory
Coast, Belgium, the UK and the
Netherlands.
• Ben has a diploma in
Journalism.
• He also studied History of Art,
Painting and Sculpture at
Hastings College of Arts &
Technology in the UK and at
the Académie Royale des Beaux
Arts in Brussels.
• He plays music instruments
(drums and piano) and he
speaks several languages:
French and English, Dutch and
Polish and some bits of Spanish
and Russian.

6. Who is Ben Heine?
• Ben Heine is a Belgian
artist who has produced
through the years a
huge number of
artworks. He is
currently best known
for his original series
"Pencil Vs Camera",
"Digital Circlism" and
"Flesh and Acrylic"

7. PENCIL VS.
CAMERA
• Pencil Vs Camera is an
original visual concept
invented and popularized
by Ben Heine in April 2010.
It is one of the most
creative art concepts of
the 21st century .
• Pencil Vs Camera blends
drawing and photography.
• Ben likes to tell a story
using imagination, illusion,
poetry and surrealism in
his artworks.

8. DIGITAL
CIRCLISM
• This project started in
2010. In this series,
Heine makes portraits of
celebrities (mainly
singers and musicians)
with digital tools by
using only flat circles.
Each portrait requires
between 100 to 180
hours of work to be
completed..

9. FLESH AND ACRYLIC
• This is a project Heine
started in 2011. In this series,
Heine creates abstract acrylic
paintings on large wooden
panels. The artist blends the
model (a living person) with
the background. The
particularity of the project
resides in the fact that a
living person is integrated in
the artwork and is part of the
whole composition. Heine
wants the model to become
almost invisible.

11. A Popular Artist With an International
Mindset
• Hundreds of millions of people have
seen Heine’s creations. He has exhibited
and published his artworks all over the
world since 2006. The artist presented
his pieces of art in fairs and galleries in
Belgium, South Korea, the UK,
Romania, The Netherlands, Italy,
Germany, France, Canada, the US,
Turkey, Brazil, and Spain. His works
have been published in some of the most
famous newspapers and magazines.
• He is one of the most watched artists on
the web today. Ben is an enthusiastic
traveller, he has visited hundreds of
cities and countries, each one of them
being a big source of inspiration for his
creative projects.
• https://plus.google.com/+BenHei
neArtist

12. LET’S WATCH
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mi9yNO
NZslQ

13. Music creation
• Ben loves electronic music,
Heine plays drums and the piano
and started sharing his creative
sounds for the first time in
November 2011.
• His love for music marries well
with his love for graphic art, "It
complements my graphic work
and it helps me to grow as a
graphic artist too"
• In 2014, Ben started to
collaborate with other musicians
and singers.
• https://www.youtube.com/user/
BenHeineChannel

14. My first motivation is to express my
feelings.
Let’s express our feelings with Ben
Heine and his Art.

15. Let’s get inspired by Ben Heine
• Choose a photo from a
magazine.
• Delete or eliminate one
part of the photo.
• Try to draw the missing
part of the photo creating
a picture from your
imagination that connect
with the original photo,
following Ben Heine
model.
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16. Let’s create a circlsm picture
• Ask to your teacher for
your black and white
portrait.
• Create your one
drawing with flat
circles following Ben’s
portraits.
• https://www.google.es/
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17. Flesh and acrylic
• Bring to school a piece
of cardboard 30/30
and a small object from
home.
• Paste the object to the
cardboard surface.
• Paint yout picture as
you want.
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18. Our own creations of art....inspired by
Ben Heine.
• Take a photo of
something that you like,
landscapes, animals,
family, friends..
• Print the photo and
bring it to school.
• Delete one part of the
photo and draw what
you want.....