A collaboration project with Nex, an old friend and fellow artist (NexusDX on deviantart (http://nexusdx.deviantart.com).

What we did was alternate between pencilling and inking. One would do a few pages of pencils, then hand the book off to the other to ink the new pencils and then lay down some more pencil, then hand it off for inking, etc.

Pencils on the left, Inks on the right.

The purpose of this was to practice our inking technique by trying to interpret the pencils in the case of vague gestures and augment the pencils in the more refined drawings.

This is page 3. I began with nothing specific in mind, and ended up abandoning the sketch less than five minutes in. Nex and i thought it would be a good opportunity for him to work his imagination a bit. I mean, I thought the sketch was so horrible that I'd told Nex he could just ignore the outlines entirely.

I think he did a good job with what he was given.

Graphite and Rapidograph pens on 9"x12" sketch paper