scarygoround

Inking practice

Added 2022-09-08 16:05:38 +0000 UTC

I'm trying to get myself back in shape by inking some old pencils. It's hard to find pro pencil pages online that aren't super tightly rendered, ie, no fun to mess with. It's more about getting my problem solving brain to work than trying to get lovely lines.

These pencils are Ken Lashley on The Flash in the mid oughts, I think. Not a strong page by any means - I don't think Ken was hired for his quiet, emotional pages, but rather his action stuff. He zooms in here, I think when he should zoom out, so you end up with no body language and faces that don't tell you anything about what the characters are feeling. I couldn't tell if they were happy, sad, or indifferent. But I tried to divine what was going on.

I did enjoy the chance to fix a nose that had wandered well off centre. These superhero guys and the sudden nasal migration! Almost every page I practice on has one! In any case, no doubt I wrecked as much as I fixed with my clodhopper linework - no disrespect to the original. I was just having a bit of fun.