ElfQuest Fan Art

Hmm, I'll try that. The other major problem I have is that my pencil sketches are...scribbly. There's a lot of left-over crap from the way my hand moves when building volume,so the facial features can be hard to make out. Thus, I have to be picky when erasing the construction lines. Not fun, not in the slightest!

I use a variety of mechanical pens right now, a combination of Sakura microns and Pilot Precise pens. I have a wide range of sizes but I'm not very good at brush-like variation of widths. It's something I definitely need to try more. I've tried using pen-nibs and india ink but being left handed I tend to smear it which doesn't look so good.

I've a similar problem. I tend to work from left-to-right (which makes sense if you're pencilling a comic, but much less if you're left-handed and doing anything else; I blame the Latin alphabet and its conventions of top-to-bottom, left-to-right) but that's not my problem. It's the erasing that's the true hell of it. If I'm not careful, I will smudge the damned ink lines, no question about it. Sharpies, microns, dip-pens, brushes--They'll smudge if I'm uncautious. Since I'm very OCD about my artwork (which is behind my love-hate relationship with the brush; it gives very nice lines that dry in seconds, but comes out grey at times, which I can't stand despite the fact that the scanner will render everything a nice, even black) this is annoying. Maybe I'm just weird.
To get to the actual topic of the thread: I'll use anything to ink so long as it gives a decent black line. I'm not snobbish. Again, maybe I'm just weird.

Wow. Me gusta. I'd like something like that, but...