Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog

Hold onto your hubcaps kids! Although it’s been said many times that one man’s trash is another man’s art supplies, it bears repeating. Case in point, UK artist Ptolemy Elrington’s fantastically accurate menagerie, created entirely of hubcaps and recycled materials:

“Hubcap creatures are made entirely from re-cycled materials. All the hubcaps are found, usually on the side of the road, and therefore bear the scars of their previous lives in the form of scratches and abrasions. I believe these marks add texture and history to the creatures they decorate, and so choose not to fill, overpaint or alter them in any way.”

If you’d like to adopt one of his wonderful wheel cover creatures, he has plenty of amazing creations to choose from. Also be sure to check out his other work, commissions and past creations for more previously discarded born-again beasties.