India Ink Drawing Pins and Buttons

Original India Ink drawing, digitally modified

Hybrid Beast, india ink drawing by Brian Benson. Done with a dip-nib pen.

Mind Cascade. I started it in 2017, using a brush-like Faber-Castell PITT india ink pen, and I've recently added a few marks with the fineliner-style pen from the same set. I've successfully resisted the temptation to do anything more to it. This is an A4 size drawing on white card. © Brian Benson 2019

Hand drawn illustration of the Ganesha with a mandala in the background

Original drawing measures 8-1/2" x 11". It was drawn with a black ink pen on a sepia colored paper. A little ladybug rests on one of the bamboo branches.

Hand Drawn design using pigment pens and Copic Markers

On Edge, by Brian Benson, india ink drawing, A4, from about 1990.

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.

The Opreation is an A4 dipping nib pen drawing in india from about 1988/9. I recall that at the time I made this drawing a friend was undergoing an operation for a hernia which turned out not to exist. I don't know why I went for the strange composition of the drawing, but this is the way it looks on the page.

"We have come to collect..." India ink drawing, A4-ish. on Studioline paper, c1989. Drawn with a dipping nib-pen. Although it wasn't my original intention, this one reminds me of the end of Kafka's The Trial. © Brian Benson 1989

Watercolor drawing of banana palm

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

This horsey image is based on a drawing I made in 7th grade art class (in 1976!) with india ink. It is the silhouette of the picture on a jigsaw puzzle I had at the time.

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

Two Wolrds. An ink drawing by Brian Benson. I did this with a dip-nib pen and liner pen. 2016

Original India ink drawing, digitally modified

Shiva intervenes the battle between Vishnu and Brahma over who is the superior god.

Enter! The Microdot Man. This is an india ink drawing, done with a dip-nib pen on Studioline board. Studioline board provided an excellent surface for drawing upon; you could even do some scratching out. It's very slightly smaller than A4. © Brian Benson 1990

Original drawing made with India inks of sisters

Dream Chamber by Brian Benson. This is an A4 sized drawing in india ink (dipping nib-pen) and liner pen on paper, from about 1995.

Ink on Paper ;)