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Inktober 2021 Day 9 to Lucky Day 13!

October 13, 2021by michaelbencik 4 Comments

Oh the excitement of Halloween is building, or Samhain as we call it here! One of my favorite holidays, I just love everything about it. Getting dressed up, painting pumpkins, […]

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Art, Inktober, Ireland, Kids Art, Sequential Art, Sketch, SketchADay, Sketchbook

Inktober Day 3 and 4

October 4, 2021by michaelbencik 1 Comment

Rolling along on this exciting Daddy Daughter project! Today’s prompts are Haunted House and Knot. Enjoy!

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Art, Inktober, Sketch, SketchADay, Sketchbook

Inktober Day 31 – Ripe, Happy Halloween!

October 31, 2019by michaelbencik 1 Comment

For my final installment of 2019’s Inktober, I am doing ripe. Because as you have seen by the dates some of these buildings have been made, Ireland is at a […]

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Art, Inktober, Ireland, Travel South East Asia, Traveling with Toddlers

Inktober Day 30 – Catch

October 30, 2019by michaelbencik 1 Comment

Now we are very near the end, and things are getting farther and farther in the distance. The prompts are also starting to get harder and harder to work with, […]

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Art, Ireland, SketchADay, Travel

Inktober Day 25 – Tasty

October 25, 2019by michaelbencik 2 Comments

When I think of tasty, I think Leighlinbridge. Whaaaatt, are you crazy. A village of 2000 people, give or take, that’s less than my high school. What could be tasty […]

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Art, Inktober, Ireland, Sketchbook, Travel

Inktober Day 19 – Sling

October 19, 2019by michaelbencik 1 Comment

  sling nouna flexible strap or belt used in the form of a loop to support or raise a hanging weight. “the horse had to be supported by a sling […]

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Art, Inktober, Ireland, Sketch, SketchADay, Sketchbook

Inktober Day 16 – Wild

October 16, 2019by michaelbencik 1 Comment

Nothing wilder in Ireland then the Wild Atlantic Way. The coastal route going up the west coast for 1553 miles featuring some of Ireland finest natural features, including the Cliffs […]

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Art, Inktober, Ireland, Sketch, Travel

Inktober – Half Way There

October 15, 2019by michaelbencik 4 Comments

At this point it’s starting to get pretty hard to hide the fact that this is a combination piece, so I figured why not let it all out there. Instead […]

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Art, Castle, Europe, Ireland, Sketch, SketchADay, Sketchbook

Inktober Day 12 – Dragon

October 13, 2019by michaelbencik 3 Comments

You would think there would be a million dragon things in Irish mythology to tie into this theme, but there are not. I searched high and wide, but very few […]

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Art, Ireland, Sketch, SketchADay, Sketchbook, Travel

Inktober Day 6 – Husky

October 7, 2019by michaelbencik 1 Comment

Well, I know most people probably are thinking of a cute dog for Husky, but I went a different route. I wanted to find one of the most sturdy, solid, […]

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Art, Inktober, Ireland, Sketch, SketchADay, Sketchbook

Inktober Day 5 – Build

October 7, 2019by michaelbencik 1 Comment

This drawing is of one of my favorite buildings in Kilkenny, right at the historic John Street bridge, in the shadow of Kilkenny Castle. The reason I thought of this […]

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Art, Inktober, Ireland, SketchADay, Sketchbook, Travel

Inktober Day 2 – Mindless

October 2, 2019by michaelbencik 3 Comments

Well day two and going strong. The word of the day is MINDLESS. Now you might wonder what mindless has to do with this castle. Well back in 1814, a […]

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Art, Castle, Inktober, Ireland, Sketchbook, Travel

Inktober Day 1 – Ring

October 1, 2019by michaelbencik 4 Comments

October has come around fast this year, though it’s hard to tell with the stores setting up their Christmas displays. For me though, October is all about Halloween and fall. […]

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Adventure, Art, Inktober, Ireland, Sketch, SketchADay, Sketchbook, Travel

An Illustrated Journey Through Ireland – Philadelphia Solo Art Show

August 1, 2018by michaelbencik 6 Comments

“I wanted real adventure to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.       […]

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Adventure, Art, Inktober, Ireland, Sketch, SketchADay, Sketchbook, Travel

National Drawing Day

May 14, 2018by michaelbencik Leave a comment

National Drawing Day has come and gone, but its a concept that never gets old. Started by the National Gallery or Ireland, its a day to inspire and motivate, from […]

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Art, Ireland, Sketch, SketchADay, Sketchbook, Travel

Cartoon Saloon

May 13, 2018by michaelbencik Leave a comment

I am not sure what I love more about Cartoon Saloon, the movies, or the story behind the studio. You see, everyone in art school talks about joining up and […]

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Art, Ireland

How I Stumbled Into Comics?

April 23, 2018by michaelbencik 2 Comments

It was many years ago that I stumbled into the comics business. I had been working for a toy/publishing company called Mail Mania and the company had gone through a […]

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Art, Comic, Travel, Web Comic

MichaelBencik.com — One Way Ticket – The Comic

April 13, 2018by michaelbencik 2 Comments

One of the coolest things about traveling for nine months through Asia was has the ability to draw and illustrate a web comic as I went. It allowed me to […]

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Art, Comic, Inktober, Sequential Art, Sketch, SketchADay, Sketchbook, Travel, Travel South East Asia, Web Comic

MichaelBencik.com, Sketch Book

April 6, 2018by michaelbencik Leave a comment

“Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic […]

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Adventure, Art, Backpacking, Beach, Inktober, Sketch, SketchADay, Sketchbook

Irish Easter vrs American Easter

April 1, 2018by michaelbencik 7 Comments

So I went out last night to pick up my egg dying kit for Easter , and hit every store that I could find. Would you believe, not one store […]

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Art, Festival, Food, Ireland, Travel

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