Alienation Magnets

Jonah Complex. This was drawn using a dip-nib-pen and india ink, along with liner pen. Like most of my drawings, it was unplanned; the image emerged as I went along. The title is an afterthought, and barely relevant. Were it not for the fish it might have been called something else.

Italian poet and novelist Cesare Pavese lived at times of turmoil and clash of ideologies. His characters are loners who are detached from their surroundings. There is an air of emptiness around them. Later, we see the same in the movies of Michelangelo Antonioni. Pavese's tragic end came in 1950.

Nutshell || Alice In Chains

Enter, The Microdot Man. This was done in india ink, using a vintage dip-nib pen, on Studioline board. I don't think you can buy Studioline board any more, which is a shame, because it was a nice surface to draw on; it took the ink well, and you could do some scratching out. © Brian Benson 1989.

Innerbeastman. This is a B5 ink drawing on watercolour paper, from about 1996. © Brian Benson 1996

Less Than Jake Athem

Making of the Man, by Brian Benson. This is an approximately B5 ink drawing, in liner pen, which I made in about 1995.

Nothing wrong with being a loner

"Confess!" is an A4 sized india ink drawing, done with a vintage dip-nib pen. © Brian Benson 1994

EXIT MUSIC (RADIOHEAD)

The Hinterland, India ink drawing, A4, done with a dip-nib pen, with some final touches from a liner style india ink pen.

Life's got you down? Make sure everybody else knows.

Anthem Less Than Jake

Diffracted, by Brian Benson. This is an A3 india ink drawing which I made in about 1995. The paper of the original drawing has yellowed somewhat; the darker patch down the left hand side is from a tape backing strip that I added as support. Not a great idea.

Dark Passage, by Brian Benson, ink drawing, B5, c2002.

One of the best albums of all time as a Game cartridge!

Digital drawing of the Danish philospher Søren Kierkegaard

The Catcher in the Rye Alternativ Book Cover

Ink drawing by Brian Benson A4, c1998. Drawn with a vintage dipping nib pen.

Above and Below, by Brian Benson. Ink drawing, made using various liner pens. Started in about 2010, finished 2016.

Hello Rockview

Willis Earl Beal indie

Less Than Jake Anthem

Willis Earl Beal

Not all skeletons can be happy

Turn off the TV, Turn on your Brain

A cityscape in winter with a lonely letterbox. An original digital painting

Sylvia Plath, pseudonym Victoria Lucas, (1932-1963), American poet, novelist, and short story writer. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry. Her works starkly express a sense of alienation by extension, the situation of women in mid-20th-century America. A digitally curated portrait of an unknown photographer. Courtesy Lily Libray. IU.

Willis Earl Beal

Psycho Warrior by Brian Benson. This is an india ink drawing on A4 paper from, I should imagine, about 1998. At some point this picture has been trodden on. and elsewhere the surface of the page is uneven. Does anyone have any opinion as to whether or not I should have cleaned up the white space (I've left the page as it was for art prints, etc)?

y'all know that feel when

Alien is happy

The hardest part.... is an A4 sized india ink drawing by Brian Benson. May-July 2016.

Pierced by Brian Benson, an about A5 size drawing. I used liner type india ink pens for this one. The image evokes an appearing grimacing face that becomes a receding landscape, parts of which_surprise, surprise_ form other twisted faces. A human figure in "magician's mysterious sleeves" (rabbits, dogs and the passing time) is pierced by a blow from the top right hand corner. Some kind of metaphor, no doubt.

Single line minimal drawing of German-speaking Bohemian Jewish novelist - Franz Kafka