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 4. This is another one I began with nothing specific in mind, except this time I intended it to be a vague form for Nex to work from. I wondered what he would develop from it, as opposed to the last one, which I tried to give direction and failed. I suppose it was just as well.

Graphite and Rapidograph pens on 9"x12" sketch paper