So, today I want to post up a nice little cross-section of stuff from recent months, and I'd like to start with a return to That City. Here for starters are the pencils to a few of the panels. Through my work on One Night in the City I've been working hard to develop and refine my ability to digitally "clean" my pencil lines so that they are strong enough to carry the colours without the need for me to ink them. This isn't quite the same as digital inking, or "dinking" as it's called, rather it relies upon a very clean page of initial pencilling, and then utilises the contrasting and brightness tools in Photoshop. It's a delicate balance, as those adjustments can easily thicken or thin out the lines of the illustration, which is something I'm keen to avoid. So, here are some "cleaned" pencils...

Lorenzo!