This is inking nerdfest stuff -

i had a sketch page that was probably floating around the piles of paper on my desk back in '96 - while working on other projects i would take breaks to sketch out rough ideas in light pencil ... some years later in '01 i set myself the challenge to ink it. Usually when cleaning up a rough drawing you lose something of it's charm - so the challenge wasn't just to ink it but to stay as true the pencil as possible.

At some point i'll try separating out some of these characters into individual pics ( the pup in the lower left, bathos-man, etc). (using the higher res originals)

steadtler and sakura pens
8 1/2 x 14 in