Yet another sketch challenge piece. I won with this entry. I actually timed myself on this one, to try and see where I could increase my speed. I think gathering reference and doing the very rough rendering took me thirty-five minutes. The inking took probaby five hours (I hate inking), and the marker toning took no more than an hour. I did learn some things on this piece. Namely, I learned I don't like inking from rough pencil renderings...it just takes too long. So I've started working with larger pencils (0.7 mm), going crazy with light sketching, erasing slightly with a kneaded eraser, then going over everything with a 0.3 mm pencil (actually, I've found a heavier pencil, like the Koh-I-Noor brand, for instance, is better for rendering in the final stage). I also learned, or rather recalled just how much I loved dinosaurs as a boy. When I was in probably Kindergarten, I had this incredible dinosaur pop-up book with beautifually rendered images. They don't make enough pop-up books anymore, and I certainly don't draw enough dinosaurs.

As usual, pencil, ink, and markers (with a little white ink for the highlights on the Cadillac.)