Ben Towle

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Craft: How to Quickly Create Page/Panel Grids

I recently answered a message board post from someone wanting the convenience of those pre-ruled comic book pages that you sometimes see for sale in art supply stores, but wondering if there existed a similar product that was actually printed on decent paper.  The notoriously fibrous nature of that paper has been a complaint among …

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Comic Strip: The “5” Royales

Here’s a one-pager I did for fall’s issue of Signal to Noise magazine.  I posted some bits and pieces of this a while back when it was in-process, but now that the new issue on the stands here’s the entire strip. The stirp is an introduction to the ’50s soul/R&B band, The “5” Royales, who …

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Sketchbook 12/11/08

As per my “vow” from last post, I’ve switched here mid-page to pencil–and I’m not really sure I like the results.   There’s something sort of stiff and labored about the pencil sketches, I think because the maleable nature of pencil–somewhat counterintuitively–tends to make me more fussy about putting down a line.  I’m also pretty much …

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Sketchbook 12/10/08

I felt like I was getting stuck in a rut drawing hands, so I drew some dogs.  I’m definitely, though, stuck in a rut drawing only in pen.  I hereby vow to sketch more in other media…

Sketchbook 12/04/08

I’m on some sort of hand-drawing fixation lately.  Spending an evening drawing hands from the current issue of TIME Magazine has become a sort of weekly ritual for me now.