PITT art pen, Pentel brush on cartridge paper

These Mai Kai girls were done very quickly on A6 size bristol paper with a Pentel pocket brush pen and gray Copic brush marker. This inking technique is inspired by the work of one of my favourite illustrators Mark Rudolph.

Here’s a more painterly version.

Final artwork. Colour added in Photoshop.
Light boxed the final sketch onto bleed proof paper with blue pencil. Inked with Pentel brush pen. Scanned in at 300ppi, Removed blue lines and cleaned up in Photoshop.
Placed detail paper over my original sketch and redrew it.
My first rough sketch using blue Col-Erase pencil then refined with marker. A4 size. (Above)

Character designs for Frankenstein’s monster.

An assortment of oddball characters from my sketchbook drawn with pencil, brush and ink.

Medium: PITT Artist pen, FW ink, sable brush.

Medium: Ink, Col-Erase blue pencil, Pentel Water Brush pen.

This is my entry for a “design a superhero” competition announced on Jonathan Rector’s blog. Check it out here.

This involved creating a superhero and writing a description including name, superpowers, and traits. My character is a small town hairdresser that has the power to change into crusading crime fighter.
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Pitch: A small town hairdresser is caught in a nuclear test explosion in Los Alamos, New Mexico and transformed with super human powers.

Name: Hairpin
Real name: Betty D’Angelo (hairdresser and proprietress of D’Angelo Beauty Salon)

Superpowers:
When Betty transforms into Hairpin her hair becomes a deadly weapon.
Her modest ponytail grows over 12 feet to become a lethal cat-o’-nine tails lash alive with an electric charge. All her senses are heightened. She gains strength, agility, and acrobatic prowess.

She compliments her superpowers with weaponry that she designs herself. Her favourites are a pair of modified hairdryers that can fire heavy ammo. She is also known to use a curling tong that can slice through metal.

Traits
Betty D’Angelo she is cool, professional, bright, ambitious business woman. She prides herself on being a great hairdresser with a loyal clientele.

As Hairpin she is sassy, head strong, arrogant, impulsive and sometimes over confident. She is more likely to fight first and ask questions later. She is also very sensitive about her hair or lack of it. Any comments about her baldness evokes her wrath.
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My development sketches (below).

Some pages from my sketchbook.
Media: Col erase blue pencil, lead pencil, PITT artist pens.