Ben Towle

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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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JonathanStrange.com

JonathanStrange.com I was just poking around this site while eating lunch–there’s a lot of cool stuff to be found there about this very cool book. It’s a difficult book to describe… but it’s kinda like Jane Austen, Charles Dickens and J.K. Rowling all rolled into one. Interestingly the author, Susanna Clarke, sites comic book writers …

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Boxing Bucket, Pg. 2 – Part III

I’ve just finished tightening up the rough pencils for page 2 of the Boxing Bucket story I’m working on with my friend Chris Reilly (he wrote the story). I really struggled with a background for the second panel of this page–everything I put in there looked wrong somehow, and you can see that it’s been …

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Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Bonefish Grill declared crappy!

Ok, first off, let me say that I was most certainly predisposed not to enjoy my dining experience at the Bonefish Grill. I generally avoid all these stupid “P.J. O’Quackenbush’s”-type national chain restaurants…but, frankly, the dining scene here in Winston-Salem is so lacking that I’ll try pretty much anything at this point. (And I had …

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Boxing Bucket, Pg. 2 – Part II

..and here are the in-progress pencils for page two of the Boxing Bucket story. The first panel is pretty well tightened up, but the rest of the page is still just roughs at this point. I’ve placed the borders of the oval panels with Photoshop because I can’t draw a decent oval freehand–I’ll print out …

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