Originally posted to VCL 8/21/2004:

When I originally inked 'Wakeup Call', I spent a fair amount of time (okay, a few minutes during a local 'furmeet' at the Q-meister's weekly hangout, for you folks in the Queens area) inking the hair and its highlights.

The amount of detail didn't translate well when I colored the pic (too complicated), and I wound up replacing the inkwork with a simplified set of color highlights and shadow.

Nowadays I know about layers and Multiply modes to make all the white pixels transparent while coloring underneath the inks, but back then it would have been a super-tedious pixel-twiddling job that would have ruined the finely-detailed highlights I'm showing you in this detail shot of the original inks, all done with a size 2 Windsor & Newton round-bristle brush and Speedball ink. It's also one of the best examples of the technique I've done to date.

And more artistic than the photograph that precedes this entry :)