Ben Towle

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The pail’s progress pt. 2

As some point in the process before you really start drawing, you’ve gotta get a handle on the characters you’re going to be drawing. In this case I’ve drawn the Boxing Bucket a bunch before–and he’s not really that difficult to deal with…you see, he’s a bucket with arms and legs. The other character in …

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The pail’s progress

One of the most common misconceptions that people have about cartooning is that it is a spontaneous process–that a cartoonist simply sits down with a blank piece of paper and an ink pen and starts drawing the final published piece. While it’s taken for granted that a prose writer goes through various planning stages and …

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Beards Ahoy!

I’ve been growing a beard in anticipation of the cold winter months. Reactions have been mixed.

Wanna buy some clothes?

My stuff for sale on Ebay Check out the above link for some sweet vintage clothes I’m selling on ebay, including a stylish “Camaro” windbreaker from the 70s, a nehru-collar shirt, and several westernwear shirts.

Holiday card

Here’s a scan of the Christmas cards I made for Katherine and I to send out this year. I silkscreened the cards using my Print Gocco home screen printer. This time I experimented a bit and did the original image using black, 30% gray and 60% gray. I then converted the image to a bitmap …

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