do you prefer girls or boys?
Anonymous

girls

Drawing monsters

I love drawing monsters, its what I’ve always done, ever since I was 3. They’re what i doodle when I’m bored, I just find them fascinating. I love finding new ways to make them horrible and ugly but with their own elegance and balance.

You can’t just give them HUGE teeth and expect that to work, you have to think, how does it hunt, how does it feed, where does it live, and how do these things shape the way it looks.

There has to be perfect balance in the curves of the body and correct anatomy or I will not be happy. Nature has a golden rule i.e the golden ratio and if you defy it it just looks clumsy and wrong. But if you get it right (which I don’t always) whatever you draw, however outlandish is going to look grounded in reality and therefore more scary and horrible.

Sorry to bore you all with that, its just I’ve been neglecting drawing monsters lately for feeling somehow it lacks “artistic merit” or something. Which is ridiculous and its one of my all time passions.

I MIGHT UPLOAD SOME SKETCHES LATER 

Tagged: #Art  #monster  #creatures  #illustration  #nature  #bensartbin  

ANIMATION TIME
Mockup for a possible opening sequence with the character based on sam.

Here’s a link to the Swf Version with sound

Hope you like it!

Tagged: #animation  #traditional  #goth  #porlthompson  #sam  #bensartbin  #gif  

porlthompson:

this is my friend benjamin and he says he doesnt look like pj harvey but he really does amirite

LIES AND SLANDER

Tagged: #i dont even  #myface  #goth  #deathrock  #porlthompson  

I made an inverted crucifix earring out of rabbit bones I found on a walk.
First I treated them in bleach and attached them with wire to the earring base, it’s incredibly easy.
This is not going to help the suspicions of the fundamentalist christian neighbour, that I’m a satanist…
Oh well ;)

Tagged: #Goth  #death rock  #deathrock  #jewlery  #bones  #occult  #satanist  #satan  #religion  #atheism  #crucifix  #gothic  #dark  

Oooooh cryptic n’ shit

Tagged: #russian roulette  #pen  #bensartbin  #gun  #future  #suicide  #or is it  #ink  #brush and ink  

First animation test using my home made light-box

This is a character for an animation based on Sam -> her Blog

I like to base characters on people I know sometimes it gives them more nuances than if I had made them up.

Idk what she’s doing here I didn’t even really intend for this to be seen.

Tagged: #bensartbin  #animation  #gif  #porlthompson  

Ferret weasel, Freasel

Its awkward when you overlay 2 frames ad it looks like the ferrets are porking eachother

These are sketches for an animation, which is why some of them are weird.

Tagged: #bensartbin  #animation  #ferrets  #weasels  #pets  #morekawaiithanurmum  

Jar o frog. #avocado #frog #bensartbin

Tagged: #avocado  #frog  #bensartbin  

Frogacado #bensartbin #carving #frog

Tagged: #frog  #carving  #bensartbin  
My concentration is officially fucked
Me: do work Ben
Me: No Ben wouldn't it be great if you had loads of unrelated art ideas or went on tumblr for 2 hours or lay down or ate some cheese or... *falls over*

Avocados feel pain too, #skull #avocado #carving #bensartbin

Tagged: #avocado  #skull  #carving  #bensartbin  

Making skulls out of avocado seeds because yes, finished soon. #skull #carving #bensartbin

Tagged: #skull  #carving  #bensartbin  

My Hobby…

Looking at really shit drawings of celebrities on deviant art and laughing. I am an awful human being.

Tagged: #being a dick  #deviant art  #celebrity  #wank  

bensartbin:

The Child Slasher

Original artwork by Ben Cresswell

Another old post

one of my favourites

Tagged: #Illustration  #horror  #child  #knife  #gothic  #bensartbin