Ben Towle

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Twitter Picks Page Two Of The Harveys Ballot

The Harvey Awards is easily the most difficult comics award to vote on. Mainly this is a function of its two-tiered voting process. In addition to the usual final vote where folks select their favorites among a small pool of stand-out nominees, the Harveys have an initial round of voting during which the nominees themselves …

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W is for Wyvern

From the original Monster Manual… W is for Wyvern The original art for this is for sale here.   You can follow the other “W” entries as people post them to Twitter this morning by following the #AlphaBeasts hashtag. View all previous AlphaBeasts entries at the AlphaBeasts Tumblr: http://alphabeasts.tumblr.com/. You can also find some submission …

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Portrait Night Revisited: Falling In Reverse

I may have stopped doing weekly #PortraitNight drawings on Twitter, but that doesn’t mean I won’t do the occasional doodle in my sketchbook. Here’s one I did last week. As per usual, I grabbed a subject from one of the ubiquitous music mags that  are usually piled up on my coffee table. The band here …

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On Visual Reference, The Movie Meatballs, and Pinterest

I recently got a commission to illustrate a six-page memoir comic about going to see The Empire Strikes Back on opening day. Empire was released in the summer of 1980 and so one thing I had to take care of before I got to actually drawing the story was getting visual reference for the story. …

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V is for Vilstrak

We’re hitting the bottom of the barrel here with these final letters, but I actually like how this guy turned out. I love the bizarre hand/arm structure on the vilstrak design. From the Monster Manual II: V is for Vilstrak The original art for this is for sale here.   My favorite part of the …

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