Retrospective

When I was a kid we were lining up to ride a donkey and when it was my turn the donkey-keeper put me on the saddle backwards for a laugh. Little did that man realise that this new point of view would give me, more than a decade later, the necessary inspiration for a...

BENJAMIN DRAKE RETROSPECTIVE ! ! !

Yes, that's right. It's time to look backwards!

Whatever for dear Ben?

Well, because all the new drawings I've done are un-scanned or unfinished, and because I've found a few things I've never uploaded on the internets in my archives.

Queensland Year Project, 2007. I worked with Jasmine Hambling and Patrick Culleton on this one.





One of the first drawings I ever did with a tablet, 2005.



Comic, 2006.

High school comics.

I drew this before I left Bunnings for a woman that worked there.

Alright, alright enough! I'm sick with nostalgia!

Me too. Here's a work in progress, and a new comic I forgot I had to clear out the stink of mothballs.

In other news, I'm trying desperately to create a new demo reel and all my friends have web pages now! Damn! If all my friends were political superpowers I feel like, I dunno ... Australia. Or Canada. Check out these awesome pages!

SENimation - The Sense of Imagination.

JOYBOX - Art and Craft with Alex Grigg.

and

Emily Nelson's Art - Art by Emily Nelson.