Ben Towle

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Sketchbook 9/1

I’ve been doing some drawing in ballpoint pen lately. Here are a few of them–fantasy beasts drawn with a black Bic ballpoint pen. The very last one (the cat with the wavy hair) is in pencil, but also a recent fantasy beast.  I really dig the ballpoint cat/mount  in the upper right. I’m slated to …

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Prophet Fan Art

    Hand drawn, inked with Pentel brush pen and Micron. Colored in Manga Studio EX5. I tried to do a bit of “digital aging” on it via Photoshop, but I like the original better. I upgraded to Manga Studio EX5 this weekend and spent some time fooling around with its coloring tools–and I was …

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Manga Studio Drawings: Storm & Neil Gaiman

  Here’re a couple of recent drawings, neither of which I’m 100% happy with… but both were good Manga Studio practice. Storm was hand-drawn in my sketchbook, then inked in Manga Studio, and finally colored in Photoshop. You may recognize her costume there as being from the recent Brian Wood/Oliver Coipel X-Men series. I’ve not followed …

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Chaval: Forgotten, Controversial French Gag Cartoonist

I was recently at a library in Durham doing a comics talk and noted that the “books for sale” shelf there had a bunch of comics collections from the 1950s. Most of the collections were of were New Yorker cartoonists whose work I already owned–Arno, Darrow, etc.–but one book caught my eye and I bought …

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Wrap-Up: San Diego Comic-Con 2013

Well, I’ve returned from San Diego Comic-Con and I’m starting to get back settled in. As you probably know, Oyster War didn’t win the Best Digital Comic Eisner Award, but I had a blast at the show nonetheless and I’m really, really glad I made the trek. Here’re a few thoughts: San Diego – I …

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