Cable

This week's Ten Ton Weekly Sketch Challenge [link] was Cable, one of my all-time favorite Marvel characters. As always, I tried experimenting a bit with my entry. This time I used Dr. P.H. Martin's dyes for all of the coloring, but discovered their black is WAY too blue. So I ended up doing a ton of marker shading on his costume, skin, metal arm and the guns. I also used a white ink pen to drop in some highlights on the leather. All in all, I'm fairly pleased with this piece in general, but am particularly pleased with the linework. I recycled this piece of paper (the back of an earlier drawing I didn't complete) and found the texture of it to be almost like velvet after I cleaned it up. Maybe some guys would like that, but I ended up fighting it the whole time I was inking it. Still, I think it turned out ok, and is more in line with where I'm wanting to take my style. As usual, because I was using the dyes and markers, I went with the Rapidosketch pens for the really nice waterproof ink.

I hope you guys like. Cable rocks.

-B