While not without its flaws, the redux is an improvement over the original in every way.

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Originally hammering -2-, done 28 May 2003 and back-published 2003-05-23 15:01:21. Like hammering -1-, a rework of an earlier draft:

 

While the previous page was inked with - I believe - a 01 Micron in one pass, this page was a horribly failed attempt to use a brush tip for inking. To say that this failed horribly would be one hell of an understatement - I have a tendency to slow down and increase pressure when I don't want to fuck up my inks, and as I'm sure you can imagine, this doesn't exactly work when you're trying to do fine detail with a brush. You don't get detail - you get the pile of ass that was originally hammering -2-.

Later, you figure out an inking method that works for you and you come back and redo the fucker.

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Hammering on the Gates of Nothing -2-

Rework of the original page. Obviously, if you saw the first version. Experimentation with brush pen, which obviously didn't go terribly well. The thing's too big- I'm going to run off somewhere else and see if I can find a smaller one. 3 will likely be mixed media sort of thing, experimenting with line weights. This marks the first use of the sketchbook for source material- top and bottom frames were done on card stock, middle in the dev sketchbook, which is taking a bit of a beating lately. :P

I still need practice, obviously. :D