Here’s a new Alphabeast creature, and an interpretation of a scene from one of my very favorite films, John Carpenter’s The Thing.
If you haven’t seen the film, go ahead. I’ll wait.
Back? Wasn’t that just awesome?
To create an ink of the creature isn’t the easiest, considering that it doesn’t really have one single form. So I looked at some of the great scenes in the movie, and one of them has always stuck out for me.
In the scene, one of the men at the Antarctic base, named Bennings, has become the unfortunate victim of the Thing. He’s only partially changed though, so the men at the base get to see first hand what happens when someone is “turned”.
Here’s my interpretation of the scene, it’s 5″ x 7″, ink and ink wash on 140 lb. Cold Press. I give you my ink art, The Thing That Was Bennings. Click on it for a larger version:
