keep the pencils loose to give myself more room when i come in with the ink but i do nail down the basics.
that creature with the bright green face came first and i had all of his face down in pencil except for those round markings. that’s the sort of thing i leave for later. i even leave other things, like the small tick marks on his jaw, for after i color it in marker. if i try to put those in before the color i find they smear a little sometimes. not always but i can’t count on them not smearing. it’s odd that the little ink marks smear 