| Posted: 12 July 2012 at 4:42am | IP Logged | 6
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One last quick one before I get ready for work... 
I started doing something different this time, where I was exclusively sketching in 2B pencil. Instead of messing around with a blue pencil "skeleton", I switched over to using the old harder 2H graphite for the initial layout and construction phase of the sketch. Harder pencils can still lay down a line with light pressure, though much lighter than with standard or softer grades. I can still erase it fairly easily using the eraser shield as a means of avoiding wiping out any necessary linework. In recent months, I had reverted to the traditional graphite after seeing how artist Frank Cho worked with it during a sketch panel at last year's Baltimore Comic Con. His use of softer (4B) graphite also inspired by decision to go in the opposite direction of my hard pencils that I had used the previous 30-odd years. This way, I'd have been able to lay a light construction down, then used harder pressure on the linework over it, being able to easily erase the lighter construction lines placed underneath. Up until then, I had switched over to an exclusively blue-line approach to penciling taken from John Romita Jr in the original Marvel Try-Out Book (1987), which was actually impractical for use with the cheap scanner models available later on. (These weren't like the mechanical photocopy cameras which publishers used prior to the electronic scanning process, which wouldn't pick up the blue lines beneath the inks -- I wanted to eliminate the need to "erase" the blue pencil linework in Photoshop software.)
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