Ben Towle

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Animal Alphabet Watercolors On Sale!

As you know, Alpha Beasts is cranking up next week and I’m pretty excited. My gut’s telling me there’s going to be a pretty big turn-out of folks for this go round. In the meantime, though, I’d like to find new homes for my remaining Animal Alphabet watercolors…. so I’m slashing prices. I’ve gone crazy, …

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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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