Recently cartoonist, educator, hobo and all around good guy, Ben Towle shared an inking practice handout that he provides his students to help nurture a genuine love for the black stuff. I thought it looked pretty neat and damned challenging so I downloaded the handout here: [link], printed out a few copies and took them to Sketch Charlotte last week for giggles. I found it both fun and frustrating to try my hand at putting it down on top of some of these snipped out panels from various masters. I guess I’ll have to resign myself to being no Charles Burns and no Kim Deitch either, for that matter. But I did really enjoy this educational foray. Thanks again to Ben for sharing with the entire of the cartooning community.
Below are the blue-lined practice sheet and my clumsy attempts to ink atop the lines.
If any of the other Sketch Charlotte members worked on the sheet, I’d be very interested to see the results.
