Ben Towle

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Adopt-a-bear

Forsyth County > Animal Control > Adoption Photos > Animal Detail Report This animal is under the “dogs” section of the Forsyth County animal shelter website, but there’s no foolin’ me. That’s clearly a baby brown bear.

Winter Arrives

I’m frankly not a fan of the cold weather… and Winston-Salem gets its fair share, being so close to the mountains. But, that being said, once it’s December or January, I’d just as soon have it get cold and miserable and be done with it and it looks like it’s finally happened. Daytime highs have …

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What You’ll Wish You’d Known

What You’ll Wish You’d Known What an amazing high school graduation speech. I wish I’d heard this at my graduation. My high school graduation speech was given by Admiral John Pointexter… yeah, that Admiral John Pointexter: from the Iran/Contra deal. The speech linked above is by millionaire/author/computer guy Paul Graham. My favorite quote: “I suspect …

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Random sketch

Here’s a drawing I did a while back. I had pretty much forgotten about it, but I was rummaging around in my art supplies cabinet and found some sepia ink I had forgotten about buying. I then remembered this pencil draiwing that I thought might look good with a bit of sepia ink applied. The …

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Boxing Bucket Pg. 2, pt IV

…And here’s page 2 inked. I’m not as happy with the overall drawing on this page as I am with the first, but I like the panel layout. In most of my work I tend to stick to a pretty standard grid based on either 9 panels per page, or 6 panels per page. So …

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