for these kinds of illustrations i've always drawn in pencil, like this, then inked (now scan, then ink) with pens and brushes and quills then erased and cleaned up (photoshop is my hero. i am a sloppy eraser, and i HATED having to manually repair !@#$-ups with art-white in the old days, gah...) before coloring, printing, whatever. i will never stop doing that. there's something about a cleanly inked line, the way the line takes on thicknesses and qualities that you don't expect and it's good, those time when you capture your pencilled line perfectly - i love to ink (and hand color too) BUT... it is exciting to learn new things and try to use photoshop for those same functions as well as learning new ones along the way (every day i find some new trick or tool or shortcut. there's a LOT. i may be good at it if i keep it up and live to 90. but practice makes, well, fun, another shot at trial and error, often good art, and certainly improvement at whatever you're practicing...
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