I've been keeping myself as busy as possible lately:

     Most nights that I'm at work, I spend the break doing quick little sketches like the one above.  The majority of these are only rough breakdowns for practice with layout and design.  At home, I have a few more hours for more substantial projects, although the pace is still a bit slow for my liking.  I've been relearning a lot of what I once picked up as a young buck stamping the ground in preparation for a comicbook artist career at one time.

     Not all of what I've done lately would be considered "worksafe", though.  Fortunately, I've more or less gotten most of that out of my system and want to work on the dream project a little bit from here on.

Great work everybody! Really good stuff!

JT, do you have any books you suggest for digital colouring? I've been looking to do some more and was wondering if there were any good books out ther eon how to colour in photoshop.

Any other suggestions from others is appreciated too.

In response to JT's post,

     In Jasc Paint Shop Pro 9, I've found that creating a background layer set to "Multiply" properties works out best for getting around most digital coloring issues.  In the past, I used to just duplicate the scanned penwork, but I've since created a simple background layer without doing that and found it more useful for coloring.

     The big thing is to lay out "blocks" of color before putting in smaller areas for highlights and shading.  The drawback of duplicating the penwork layer is that doing that multiple times creates a weird "dithering" effect that tends to make using the fill tool pointless.  I generally clean up the work a bit with the color replacement tool before even starting the coloring phase.