Following the "King"

An ink drawing executed with a sable brush after Jack Kirby, the undisputed "King" of comic book artists, from 75 Years of Marvel: from the golden age to the silver screen. I love his deep blacks and directional hatching that give his drawings tremendous movement. Jonathan Lethem said, "Kirby was a figure like Bob Dylan, one where you couldn't be the same after you'd encountered him as you'd been before."

Here I used a non-photo blue Prismacolor pencil to copy a master drawing by Kirby to hone my skills in the ongoing pursuit of professional draftsmanship. The blues "contrast out" in Photoshop very easily and require no erasing. This makes it ideal compared to a regular graphite pencil.