"Flash in the Pan"

A couple of years ago I roughed out the blue pencil rough, as posted below, on "Blue line A4 Manga paper".

I wasn't pleased with the lettering, so I "shelved" it & found it the other day when looking for something to ink. I laid a sheet of tracing paper over the rough & re-lettered with Uni-Pin fine line markers & inked over the blue pencil lines with a Dalon brush & black W&N ink. I used grey Letraset Pro-Markers on the back like an old animation cell for the tones.

And, I always liked Flash Gordon. The Buster Crabbe serials were shown at a local cinema when I was a kid. But it's the Kurtzman/Wood MAD parody that infuses the approach to this comic page...     

"Modern World!"

Why I decided to draw in Brush & Ink in a sketchbook is anybody's guess. The paper is pretty crappy (It bleeds if you use a dip pen) I had a sort of theory that if I "practised"on cheap paper then when I came to draw on Bristol Board then my hand would be "liberated".

Does that even make sense?

"Just Sign Here..."

Not sure why I did this one. Found it in a different sketchbook while looking through the other sketches for this post.

Brush & Ink. May have been a bookplate for someone.

Any Excuse...

This is just a quick Brush & Ink drawing that I did in a small (A5) Sketchbook today while waiting for another picture to dry.