Ben Bender

Ben Bender

October Update

Hi, y'all! I started prepping this update last week, but crazy stuff has been going on. We've had a proper perfect storm on the homefront and it has torpedoed my productivity and absolutely shot my stress levels through the roof. The short version is (and sorry for the grossness), it

The Great Pumpkin fanart series

The Great Pumpkin fanart series
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I decided to do some of my fanart paintings as a series across a whole week. The first week I did was The Great Pumpkin as a lead-up to Halloween. I had a lot of fun with these! Linus writing to the Great PumpkinLinus waiting for the Great PumpkinSnoopy, The

Working, Painting, and Fanart

Working, Painting, and Fanart
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Howdy folks! I've been painting lots of fanart lately. I started doing it as a means to test out my traditionally inking skills. I inked the first Beorn book digitally, so I hadn't been inking with my brush for awhile. I always wanted to ink Beorn traditionally, but never really

Back to the Land of the Living

Back to the Land of the Living
Woohoo! I hope everyone is doing well. I had to take some time off from investing in social media and digital interactions while I was working on finishing up the first Beorn book, and that took a whole lot longer than anticipated. But! Everything on that front is rolling along

Kickstarter Success. Understatement of the Decade!

Kickstarter Success. Understatement of the Decade!
I wanted to share a quick Thank You to everyone who found my art and my blog through the recent Kickstarter campaign for the first issue of BEORN. That campaign was a wild experience. I honestly set out to run a small campaign and get the experience of Kickstarter. I

New Decade. New Site. New Beginnings.

New Decade. New Site. New Beginnings.
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I’m a huge fan of new beginnings. Before my wife Ady and I even had our first child, we decided that every morning we would ask them, “who are you today?” I have always felt there is great power in the recognition that our minds can recreate who we