Nov 17 2013
Here’s a (second) recent drawing of Lou Reed, this one taken from the picture accompanying his obituary in TIME magazine. I hadn’t really intended to do anything with this one, but it turned out alright and I had some time to fool with it last week.
Process: sketched in pencil, inked and colored in Manga Studio.
Nov 17 2013
I just colored a quick drawing I did in my sketchbook last week of John Lennon. I think the photo I was looking at was from last month’s MOJO Magazine review of the new box set.
Process: Drawn in pencil, inked with Pentel brush pen, colored in Photoshop.
Nov 08 2013
When it rains, it pours! I’m swimming in commissions these days… and I sure ain’t complaining about it. Here are some I just finished up today: The Fantastic Four and everyone’s favorite mental organism, MODOK. I had a lot of fun with the FF one in particular. They were one of my faves back when I was reading a ton of Marvel superhero books. If, like me, you grew up reading comics in the 1980s, you’ll recognize the distinctive bunching up/tucking in of their costumes into their boots and gloves that was a hallmark of John Byrne’s run on the book in that era.
And, for the record, I dig MODOK as well.. but I get to draw him a lot; he’s a popular request, especially at cons.
(If you’re interested in commissioning artwork, you can contact me at the email address up in the nav bar or tweet me up at @ben_towle.)
Nov 04 2013
Here’s a commission I just wrapped up: Kang the Conqueror sitting on the “Iron Throne.” It was a lot of fun to do. That’s India ink and sepia wash on watercolor board. Live area is 10 x 15 inches.
The person who commissioned the piece has a gallery of commissions with that same theme on Comic Art Fans.
If you’re interested in commissioning artwork, you can contact me at the email address up in the nav bar. I’m pretty booked up through the holidays, but am fairly free from post-Christmas onward.
Oct 31 2013
Here’s a drawing of Lou Reed I started the evening he died and just wrapped up this evening. Since his death, people far more eloquent and far more knowledgeable about music than I have written about Lou Reed’s significance and importance. I’ll just say this: I discovered the Velvet Underground when I was in high school in the 1980s and theirs is some of the only music I’ve never stopped listening to since then. Lou Reed’s made a lot of records over the years. Some were great. Some were… not so great. But he was never complacent and and never content to make a record he’d already made.
The image is based on my two favorite post-Velvets Reed solo records: the pose and clothing are from a Transformer-era photo session and the color scheme is based on the blue hue featured on the record The Blue Mask. It was sketched in pencil, then inked and colored in Manga Studio.
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