Early in the week, I started drafting up an article on various inking techniques I use to draw and why I use them. It started out as a modest piece before ballooning to 2 1/2 pages, with at least one more page to go til completion. It explains how I use quills, brushes, Rapidograph pens, and disposable pens to complete each page. I never really noticed just how many tools I use to ink a page until I had to write them all down. It seems as though there is a different tool for every task. Expect to see that posted some time next week, I hope.

This page might be my best yet. For  some reason, everything just fell together and worked. The pencils were good, the “camera angles” were fresh, and the inks brought it to life. I complain how long each page of Variables takes me to complete but I feel my work is getting really close to a professional level. I still have some issues with almost every aspect of my art (particularly anatomy, which I’ve been studying again for the past few weeks) but at least there is no glaring weakness anymore. I’m excited to see where my art will be in another year.

In this page, we meet another bit character, a neighbor of Karter’s who brings him food almost every night. It’s another example of how the community has embraced Nemesis and protects him from outside forces. It’s the only way a man like this could exist for seven or eight years, doing the things he does. But once this scene is done, I’m done with explanations (or at least entire scenes committed to them). From here on out, it turns into an action book. It’s a good thing I’ve been studying a lot of action poses and superheroes lately because I’m going to need the experience over the next issue and a half (or more like half an issue until I return to the 1992 arc for a bit but that’s another matter entirely). It should be a lot of fun to see what my practice of superhero drawing (that can be found here) has done for my composition, anatomy, and poses.

And, as always, you can find the issue in progress HERE!

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