Flylashes, pen drawing with digital color
No Reference pages 4-5, pen drawing illustration
No Reference, pages 6-7
No Reference
No Reference zine, pages 9-10
Flylashes, pen drawing with digital colorFlylashes, a pen drawing with digital color by Nathaniel Benjamin, printmaker, artist, muralist in Reno, Nevada. This illustration is part of a handmade zine of detailed pen drawings depicting the human figure in a printmaking, illustrative style. The subject matter is influenced by momento mori, psychedelic experience, body horror, dark dream imagery, psychology, medical anatomical illustrations from historical printmakers, and macabre but bright and vibrant colors. This image shows flies embedded in the skin of a person’s eyelids as if they were the person’s eyelashes. A whole fly is climbing out of the pupil of the person’s eye.
No Reference pages 4-5, pen drawing illustrationTwo pages from the handmade zine of original psychedelic pen drawings by Nathaniel Benjamin, artist, printmaker, and mural painter in Reno, Nevada. The zine or artbook is filled with illustrations of human anatomy stitched together into abstract geometric polygons, including veins, eyes, flesh, parts of the human face, momento mori such as flies, and more. Taking influence from human anatomy illustrations, and psychedelic experiences, these original drawings are in the style of lowbrow, pop surrealism art, colorful and using the technical aesthetic of printmaking such as screen printing and woodcut or linocut relief printing. Abstract space dreamscapes of body horror and psychedelia mixed with medical anatomy line drawings, depictions of the human form in a horrific amalgamation.
No Reference, pages 6-7Illustration from No Reference, a handmade zine by Nathaniel Benjamin, artist, printmaker, mural painter in Reno, Nevada. Original pen drawing with digital color, illustration depicting the human body reconstructed into abstract polygonal shapes floating in space. The illustrations show torn flesh, veins, along with eyes, mouth, nose, facial features from a human body, using the conventional aesthetics of printmaking. Drawing uses hatching, hatchmarks, to depict the human body in three-dimensional space, abstracted influenced by body horror, psychedelic art, lowbrow art, pop surrealism, surrealism, dream imagery, dreamscapes, psychdelic experiences, medical anatomy, anatomical printmaking, woodcut, linocut and relief printmaking, block printmaking, etching.
No ReferenceOriginal artwork, illustration, pen drawing by Nathaniel Benjamin, artist, printmaker, muralist in Reno, Nevada. This illustration is part of a series from the handmade zine, No Reference, hand stitched. Lowbrow, pop surrealist artwork influenced by medical illustration, anatomical illustration, woodcut, linocut, portraiture. The art depicts human features stitched into polygonal shapes that float in space. The violence can be seen in tears in the flesh, cut veins, spilling blood, posing scientific violence against visceral violence. The zine illustrations are influenced by body horror, medical anatomy, historical printmaking conventions, screen printing, block printing, psychedelic experience, psychedelia, psychedelic art, and an interest in medical conventions, medical science, the human body, human anatomy.
No Reference zine, pages 9-10Medical, anatomical illustration, pen drawing, drawings by Nathaniel Benjamin, printmaker, artist, muralist in Reno, Nevada. This handmade original zine of psychedelic illustrations depict medical anatomy, anatomical illustration, original psychedelic art influenced by dream imagery, momento mori, human abstraction, abstract human anatomy, psychedelia, abstract polygonal illustrations. These illustrations are of human features stitched together into polygonal shapes suspended in abstract space alongside momento mori such as flies. Depicting decay, body horror, mortality, dark art illustration, printmaking such as woodcut, linocut, etching, and screen printing.
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