I’ve been wanting to find a good brush pen, but every time I’ve boughten one they only last a few uses before they fray. It’s been really annoying. This weekend I decided to take a different approach. I went and bought a bottle of India Ink and decided to just use actual brushes. The above Batman picture was my first test. I especially like the idea of playing with washes (and ink to water and making grey). I plan to do more work with this in the future and I’ll let you know how it goes. I’ve never done a comic this way so it will be interesting to see how they look with this kind of ink work.

This was done for a group I joined on facebook called Caricaturama 3000. Each week everybody draws someone famous and at the end of the week we vote for the winner. The winner then gets to pick the next person to draw. I enjoy it because you get to see a lot of variety in the art and interpretation of the people’s faces. Feel free to check it out and maybe join us in our fun.

By the way, while looking for photo references of Tracy Morgan I learned that he likes to pull his shirt up.

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I like Clint Eastwood. He is the ultimate man’s man. You want to learn how to be the strong silent type, then just watch any of his films. Of course, one of my favorites is “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.” If you’ve never seen it, I recommend it as one of the best spaghetti westerns ever. What’s a spaghetti western? Why it’s a western that was filmed in Italy. I’m glad we’re on the same page now, and if were not…