Ben Towle

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Portrait Night 10/11 (Hank Williams, Sr.)

I did a caricature/likeness of Hank Sr. a while back for my old mini-comic, American Music A-Z. I’ll have to dig it out and look at it for comparison’s sake. This isn’t a great likeness, but hopefully it’s an improvement: If you’d like to suggest a #PortraitNight subject, you can do so either via the …

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Sketchbook 10/7

I’ve been neglecting sketchbook posts of late. Partially that’s just because I’ve been super-busy and haven’t been working in it as much as I should. Also, though, I’ve been tending of late to post stuff to Twitter or G+. Anyhoo, here’s a recent page:

Portrait Night 10/04 (David Yow)

Last week I finished up my Our Band Could Be Your Life-themed drawings, but right in the midst of that I received a portrait request that I had to shelve until now. Thematically, it fits in pretty well, though: David Yow of The Jesus Lizard. I may be misremembering–it was a while back–but I believe …

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Come One, Come All! AlphaBeasts: It’s On!

What Is AlphaBeasts? AlphaBeasts is the follow-up collaborative project to the now-completed Animal Alphabet. This time, instead of drawing real animals, we’re drawing fictional ones each week–one for each letter of the alphabet. On the first day (Monday, October 17th) everyone will draw beasts beginning with the letter “A.” The following Monday, everyone will draw …

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Animal Alphabet Part 2: In With The New?

As mentioned in part one of my Animal Alphabet roundup, folks seem to be interested in a new alphabet project. There was a bit of discussion about possible themes a few weeks back on Twitter and Google+, but I thought I’d post some thoughts here as a centralized area for getting input and suggestions–and hopefully …

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