Ben Towle

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Sketchbook 8/12

Of the potential “rogues gallery” sketches from my last post, the only one that seemed to hold much potential was the lanky knife guy, so I had another go at him and refined him a bit:

Sketchbook 8/5

At some point in Oyster War, I’m gonna have to have a crew of “bad guys,” so I’ve been working a little on that in my sketchbook.  I don’t think any of these designs are particularly inspired, but you gotta start somewhere…

Oyster War Splash Page – Inked

Hand… cramping.  Must… finish… hatching. Yeah, it’s been a while since I’ve used dip pens rather than brushes for inking, and all the hatching is really running my arm through the wringer.  (I pretended today that my worn out arm was the reason I played squash so horribly, but I guess that’s probably not really …

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Oyster War Sample Page Pencils

While it’s true that I’ve not posted anything here for a good while, there’s a compelling reason I’ve not done so: I’ve been hard at work on the initial twelve pages of Oyster War (12 pages of art/15 pages counting flip).  I just completed pencils on the pages and am set to start inking this …

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Shade The Changing Man Pinup

Here’s a pinup of Rac Shade, the main character from Steve Ditko’s DC series Shade the Changing Man.  I did this as a “thank you” to send to the folks at Hot Sauce Productions who were kind enough to let us screen the recent Jonathan Ross documentary, In Search of Steve Ditko, at Heroes Con …

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