Ben Towle

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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.

Finished Penciled Pages for a GN: The Weigh-In

One thing most folks who aren’t cartoonists probably don’t consider much is the sheer mass of  the many, many pages of finished artwork cartoonists wind up with.  I’ve got tons of pages lying around my studio, and I only manage to produce a book every few years.  I can’t imagine what artists who, say, pencil …

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Sketchbook 11/29/08