I started this “Story” a ridiculously long time ago.

It was initially started for Mythography #3 as a 3 page story/vignette.  Editor Michael Cohen had a 3 page opening, but after penciling and partially inking 2 pages I soon realized the “story” wasn’t going to fit in the allotted 3 pages so I scrapped it and sent in 3 pin-ups instead.

A couple years later I pulled out the 2 unfinished pages and light tabled them to new paper so I could start fresh but again dropped it when I realized I didn’t have the layouts for the original third page.

During my hunt for old short stories and pin-ups I ran across the story again and thought it would be fun to finally finish it, given that I’m putting together a collection of my short stories from those years. I also found the layout/rough pencils to the original third page this time around.

So, I imported the story into Clip Studio, cut the layouts to page 3 up to expand it to 4 pages to get the story to fit, and started re-pencilling everything digitally.

I’m probably going to tighten up a few details before starting to ink, but this is usually as far as I go with pencils.

I’ll post the final inks once they are done!

I’ve never put together a dedicated inking portfolio.

Given that I started my comic career as an inker, and the majority of my work-for-hire comic book work has been as an inker, that might seem odd.

The truth is I never really pursued inking work. It was just offered to me when I showed my portfolio of fully inked art.

I’ve done my share of test and tryout pages at an editors request, but I’ve never attempted inking other artists work as an exercise or as portfolio pieces with the purpose of showing to land inking work.

I’ve been toying with changing that.

I got my hands on some scans of Nick Derington’s Doom Patrol pencils, and I must say, these pages were a lot of fun to work on.

Once I finished these up I started inking some Teen Titans pages by José Luis García-López that I found on the internet a while back. But, I lost steam as I realized I had pressing work on my own projects that needed doing.

I might return to those pages when I have some more downtime and see if I can’t put together a proper inking portfolio someday. In the meantime, this is a gallery of a few of the new samples, and a few pages of my published inking work.