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One of those rare times to show the process behind the madness.

Being an inker, I'm probably groomed to be impatient. It comes with the territory...just being able to jump right into working on a page with the pencils already laid out in front of me. Just pick up whatever inking tool I have, and go to town. So when I pencil and ink myself, I'm just as impatient. Which is why I could never do both with any sort of quality regularity. And also why I hardly show the process...because usually as soon as I sit down and draw a piece...it's so loose and rough that I jump directly or skip into the inks pretty fast. So fast, that it's usually quicker for me to ink/finish the piece than it is to stop and scan it in steps.

*whew* long winded

Anyways... usually I'm not skilled enough (comfortable enough) to pencil the pose right on the page without any forethought. So whether I'm at home or conventions, I like to have some type of scrap paper handy to doodle up thumbnail poses and get a feel for how I want to layout the pencils. I keep the thumbnails to just an inch or two in size and fast and loose. And sadly, they usually end up looking more alive and better than the final result, which always comes off stiff to me.

So here I've cut and pasted a couple of the thumbnails I did with whatever regular pencil I have handy (just a standard No.2 leaded pencil). The finished pencil I draw in col erase blue pencil, just because it keeps it light and less messy to ink over than if I were to scratch it out with a normal lead. And this blueline drawing is probably even more tight than I normally do, since I do most of the drawing/finishing in the inking stage. But sometimes with more complex designs, I will pencil it out a little tighter than normal.

Looking at this, he comes off a little more stumpy in the final pencil than in the thumbnail...which is always the problem I have (sometimes less obvious than other times). So we'll see what happens in the inking stage, if I do much correcting or if I just jump in and ink it up. heh

Oh yeah, if it's not apparent...it's Lobo.

Frag off!

- D

*** Check out my scrapbook for thumbnail sketches I've uploaded to get an idea of the warmup process ***

Description
One of those rare times to show the process behind the madness.

Being an inker, I'm probably groomed to be impatient. It comes with the territory...just being able to jump right into working on a page with the pencils already laid out in front of me. Just pick up whatever inking tool I have, and go to town. So when I pencil and ink myself, I'm just as impatient. Which is why I could never do both with any sort of quality regularity. And also why I hardly show the process...because usually as soon as I sit down and draw a piece...it's so loose and rough that I jump directly or skip into the inks pretty fast. So fast, that it's usually quicker for me to ink/finish the piece than it is to stop and scan it in steps.

*whew* long winded

Anyways... usually I'm not skilled enough (comfortable enough) to pencil the pose right on the page without any forethought. So whether I'm at home or conventions, I like to have some type of scrap paper handy to doodle up thumbnail poses and get a feel for how I want to layout the pencils. I keep the thumbnails to just an inch or two in size and fast and loose. And sadly, they usually end up looking more alive and better than the final result, which always comes off stiff to me.

So here I've cut and pasted a couple of the thumbnails I did with whatever regular pencil I have handy (just a standard No.2 leaded pencil). The finished pencil I draw in col erase blue pencil, just because it keeps it light and less messy to ink over than if I were to scratch it out with a normal lead. And this blueline drawing is probably even more tight than I normally do, since I do most of the drawing/finishing in the inking stage. But sometimes with more complex designs, I will pencil it out a little tighter than normal.

Looking at this, he comes off a little more stumpy in the final pencil than in the thumbnail...which is always the problem I have (sometimes less obvious than other times). So we'll see what happens in the inking stage, if I do much correcting or if I just jump in and ink it up. heh

Oh yeah, if it's not apparent...it's Lobo.

Frag off!

- D

*** Check out my scrapbook for thumbnail sketches I've uploaded to get an idea of the warmup process ***