Pretty good one there, Sebastien.  Hope the recipient is enoying this.

A cropping of my latest little project, featuring an original character of mine.

I used traditional inks on this (I'm holding off on Manga Studio until I have disposable income that I can use for purchasing it), Pelikan fount India ink with various nibs and brushes, with an old Prismacolor line marker for a couple of domes near the bottom of the piece.  The final phase will be twofold: digital coloring in PSPx4, and hand coloring with a selection of Prismacolor and Derwent pencils.

   Wow, Ronald!  That's some pretty nifty storytelling there.  I'm getting something like a cross between an Alan Davis and a George Perez vibe in your style.  The only thing that probably throws me off is the "breaking the image area" on each page, but that's just my preferences in page layout.

In the meantime, I'll post a few that I was keeping myself busy on this past week:

This one I had always had in my roster of villains for a series of comics that I've envisioned since I was a kid.  Basically, he's the angry scientist type who has an accident that turns him into a cosmic monster that the heroes have to defeat in order to save the world.

A new antagonist that I dreamed up for my hero team.  This one being the leader of a squadron of cyborg super-soldiers they battle when going after an even bigger group of bad guys.

The Hulk-analog for my superhero universe.

   I use Corel Paint Shop Pro x4.  I've pretty muched used that since switching over from the old Photo-PAINT software package that Corel used to put out back in the 1990s.  You could call it the "Poor Man's Photoshop", but it gets the job done.

   I thought that they stood out well enough for me, but then my eyes are a little different and the big scanner (a Brother MFC-6490CW model) seems to pick up the lines well enough without the need for using a histogram adjustment.  I know that I used it on blue line pencil sketches to make them pop out better.  I guess I'm being a bit light on the softer graphite that I use now.

@ Ronald Joseph, re: photoshop contrast adjustments for light pencil work

This is a histrogram-adjusted scan of a pencil layout for a piece that I'm working on right now.  As you see, what would've been a very light pencil sketch with a few heavier lines rendered now stands out a little better.  In PSPx4 and earlier versions, you can shift the histogram adjustment to make lighter lines stand out better.

This being a comicbook cover concept using two of my original characters.