hehe nice! I'd love to see more like this

Splendid work as always, Rick. :D

Aww, is the cat back there crying? :'(

Actually I think she's trying to vamp stripes there in front of her.

This is really a nice pic indeed Rick. I am curious as to the plot of this pis as, by the expressions, im seeing and feeling quite a bit of tension in what is normally a peaceful relaxing location. My curiosity is aroused.

The way you nail expressions is as excellent as always

If there's not much to say about this stage, then I have a question! :)

Do you ink over the pencil sketch and then erase, or do you use a light box to ink on a new page?

Neither! The sketch was done on 9 x 12 sketchbook paper and the ink was done on 11 x 14 bristol. What I do is that I scan it, change all the lines to bright blue at ~20-40 percent opacity and print it out onto the bristol board so I can ink it there. I'll be printing it out again onto a new sheet of bristol for marker coloring (and also a couple very small versions of the picture onto some cardstock for doing thumbnail tests

It never occurred to me to use a process like this D: That sounds like a clean and easy way to go about it--and now that I have a wide-format printer I can actually use paper that size :)

It does make it a bit easier! I decided to go with this process when I was doing marker because 1) I can't sketch as well at much larger than 9 x 12 and 2) I hate having to start ALL over due to some mistakes, plus this way I can do line correction in the ink stage that won't carry over to the color stage.

I agree with Kalahari, would have never thought of doing that. You have a printer that can print on 11x14 paper?

Yeah, it's a Brother MFC and it goes up to 11x17/A3, although it's a bit tricky to get bristol to go through. It was a pretty cheap printer/scanner combo ($200 when I bought it ~2010). I also have a fine photo/art printer that can go larger.