Ben Towle

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Drawing Words & Writing Pictures – Week 2, Homework

Week two’s homework is basically just to execute a gag panel, the only other stipulation being to come up with three, rather than just one, potential captions.  Here’s mine: “If I’d known it  snowed this much around here, I’d have gotten a bigger dog” “That’s nothing–up North, I once lost my horse.” “They don’t make …

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Sketchbook 08/24

Drawing Words & Writing Pictures: Week 2, Activity 1

The activity here is to come up with captions for last week’s homework assignment. Before that, though, I revised my homework from that week to better address the stipulation that the cartoon show complex action with a definite cause-and-effect chain that the reader has to follow.  So, I added the toucan dropping the anvil bit.  …

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Sketchbook 08/23

Craft: Layouts vs. Finishes

Oh, to be the layout guy…. Here’s an example from the Amelia Earhart book I’m working on now. First, the layout panel from the thumbnail: Here, the penciled panel: Now, why can’t I just write “breathtaking view” and be done with it instead of having to draw hundreds of buildings!? I’ve reversed the location of …

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