I’ve had monsters on the brain lately. I think it’s because a few weeks ago I posted some art from Drew Weing’s great bestiary, 33 Beasties and at about that same time I placed my own Moleskine bestiary for sale in my store. Whatever the case, I decided it’d be fun to draw some monsters. I began just doodling in my sketchbook, but in a rare moment of forward-thinking, I grabbed a piece of bristol board and did the drawing on that, which allowed me to ink the drawing with dip pen (which would have shredded a sketchbook page). I switched from brush to pens relatively recently and although I still don’t think I’ve got the hang of it completely, doing a drawing like this is only going to help me improve.
The original art for this is for sale here.
4 comments
Kyle says:
11/30/2010 at 3:09 pm (UTC -4 )
Great drawing, Ben! What prompted this?
Ben says:
11/30/2010 at 3:13 pm (UTC -4 )
Just thinking about monsters, I guess… and once I start working on something, I have a hard time putting it down.
Eric says:
11/30/2010 at 4:05 pm (UTC -4 )
Excellent work on inking this. Thanks for sharing your process via Twitter!
Ben says:
11/30/2010 at 4:10 pm (UTC -4 )
Thanks for the kind words!