Another test page

After talking to jordangreywolf and koogrr further about the 24-hour comic idea, I decided to try a different approach with my next test page.

Greywolf mentioned that, if he ever did one, he'd do it all in silhouettes. This reminded me that my favorite black-and-white pieces are heavy on the use of black. Koogrr reinforced this with his 'when in doubt, go black' advice.

Now, I am a lousy inker. I am better with color than I ever will be with ink, because I simply don't love black and white enough. But I decided I wanted to try again anyway. So I went to a hobby shop and bought a few cheap ink pens -- I was all set to buy expensive ones, but the shop didn't have any -- including an extra-fat marker for coloring large areas.

I had decided to try not penciling at all, just going straight with inks. Sure, I make lots of mistakes that I can't fix in ink. On the other hand, it's a 24-hour comic, I don't have much time to fix mistakes anyway. I tried a few test panels, untimed, and decided that the straight-ink results were not significantly worse than inking over rushed pencils. Around 10PM, I decided to do another hour-long test.
( Click to see the results. Contains scantily-clad-looking figure )

These things are addictive

I went out today and got more inking-type art supplies. Fatter markers, better brush pens, a metallic gold pen, and a few (eek!) Tria markers. The latter are because I wanted to experiment with something like the effects in "Sin City"-- black and white with a few hints of color here and there.

So of course, once I got home, I had to do another 1-hour comic page.
( This one took more like 65 minutes, in fact )