My Rogue Trader fanart starting with 2008.

Drawings of Spesh Maroons with weird helmets are the absolute best. :) Truly classic stuff. I think I remember seeing your Italieri marine sculpt somewhere or other. That's a heck of a nice first effort. And your drawings are always fantastic. Keep it up! I'm glad your DeviantArt friend drug you back in.
 
I think your sculpt are better then most of your drawings. Also, I didn't notice any comic plate standard. Every drawing is for itself almost. That's too bad because I think that you could make something like graphic novel of some sort. But then again most of your drawings doesn't allow it ( or your drawing style ).

Did you try to use white ink ( acrylic ink ) like wash over your drawings and then go back with few details? Or drawing on that grey blue paper? That one is nice with combination with white over black drawing.
 
Unfortunately I don't have any strong example hehe It seems to me that they didn't survive test of time ( or me for that matter ). But, Wayne England use that a lot. Washes of Indian ink or similar so that it's almost brownish and then with white very strongly. I did few drawings with rapidograph and then with white ink over few things ( wash like, few times over and over, sometimes with thin brush or dip pen ) that were to dark or something then back with rapidograph doing little details or something.

Must say, mixed media is the best ( very simple sentence hehe ). I did try many techniques and not on one sheet of paper but on many and I always find that one technique alone ( like only graphite pencil or only rapidograph or only gouache,... ) is pretty boring and got borders that you cannot pass because of the limit of technique itself. There are techniques that are versatile in sense what you can do with them and how "free spirited" they are ( like acrylics, you can go over and over and over, splash, stain, wash, details or heavy strokes compared to graphite pencil that is very "narrow minded" and once you fill that certain space, there's no going back ). I did lot of pencil drawings and it was always the same frustration since I did most of my work from head.

So, to me mixed media is most interesting. You could draw with wax pencils then go over with markers ( like Copic or ProMarker ) then with rapidograph ( that sort ), then acrylics or something, even glue piece of paper with drawing if you didn't like what you've got on that part of drawing or back with wax or soft pastel pencils or even gesso that you can go over again. Scrap the surface for texture or similar. I used to stab paintings ( talking about frustration ) with handle of a brush if I didn't like it. After few days of over painting and stabbing I usually destroy whole canvas ( I think I don't have any stabbed canvases hehe ).

I think you should try it. Even with worst quality art supplies you can see what mixed media can do for your art. It doesn't have to be in colour you know, black and white mixed media is also quite interesting and without boundaries, that's for sure.

Yes, when mind changes so does the hand. There are drawings of mine that I couldn't do today, not that they're any good, but my mind and hand are so different then 20 years ago. Of course, what I look at drawings today I wouldn't even think about that 20 years ago.
 
It's really neat to see the progress in those through various styles and techniques. I particularly like the shaded space marine and the skull crusher. (And it's a heck of an illustration of a violently oppressive government.) It's also nice seeing some squats. Keep up the good work!
 
Is there a reason you now prefer pen to pencil? The grainy, soft quality of the lead I think really adds something to your style.
 
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