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 top, Inks on the bottom.

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.

Page 5 was a change of pace in more than one way. First was the shift of page orientation from portrait to a landscape, obviously. Second is a movement away from the humanoid figure, as much as I like to work with it almost exclusively as a subject. I personally find inanimate objects more difficult to work with thanks to my lack of experience with them, so I figured this would be a good time to bring it into the picture, so to speak.

I think it's also important to note Nex's choice of inking implement in this case, which is a unique brush-tipped pen from Sakura corporation's Micron pen line.

Graphite and Micron brush pen on 9"x12" sketch paper