Portraits of Ben

This was actually one of the first Portraits of Ben that portraitsofben ever commented on! In short: old potholders, blind grandmother.

Ben rehearses for his upcoming West End performance in “James and the Giant Nipple.”

One day one of their siblings stopped by, concerned that she hadn’t heard from them in a while. They were gone. All she found was their cat, staring at a portrait of them with a strange man (boy?) she’d never seen before.

Less widely known is the second half of that quotation: “Unless you’re Ben Whishaw, in which case you should probably just start over from scratch.”

The cover from Ben Whishaw’s little-known 90s punk album.

"Ugh, my period’s coming soon.”

Promo photo for the BBC’s newest miniseries, Ben Whishaw Doesn’t Know What Day It Is.

Ben reenacts Emanuel Leutze’s famous painting, Washington Half-Standing on a Stack of Old Magazines While Absent-Mindedly Chewing on a Hangnail.

“Oh, for— guys, Ben has his hand stuck in his hair again. What did I tell you about trying to run your fingers through your hair, Ben? Someone get the scissors.”

“That cloud looks like a cat. That one also looks like a cat. That one looks like existential despair. That one looks like a smaller cat.”

Ben is not impressed by your egg-peeling abilities.

I drew it! I’m glad you like it!

To be honest, if a photo like this came up as I was perusing Tinder, I wouldn’t just swipe left, I would destroy my phone with a hammer and throw it into a river.