This thread will keep on going and going...

   Anyways, here's the first of a couple of scans that I'm putting up today to keep it going.  I finally got my PC back from the shop after taking it to get fixed.  It turns out that the original video card (an Nvidia GeForce 8800GT w/ 512 MB RAM) went tits-up on me.  The replacement?

   A 1 GB Nvidia GeForce 9500GT.  It should be a bit of an improvement over the old card in terms of gameplay, and I could use it when I get back on iRacing.com.

The pic above was a "daily sketch" that I decided to throw together during lunch.  Someone we all admire had a birthday within the last week, and I'll do my bit for him using one of the characters that he introduced in the pages of his now-classic run of X-Men back in the day...

My second sketch...

   This one's a little bit of a "false start" for me.  Hence, the partially laid out panels in this page.  I was trying to get something started just to have something to put through the big scanner that I recently brought, only to find myself going "Crap!  I can't get it right," again.  Basically, it'd be a fight scene with some original characters of mine going up against each other.

   The layouts, of course, were done in blue pencil (darkened in Paint Shop Pro 9 using the histogram adjustment tool).  I had started filling in the protagonist on the first panel using 2H graphite, but I was in the middle of doing something with my laptop at the time and couldn't take it off the desktop to really get the drawing board in use.*  I'll probably bring this one back out after a while to see if I can't get it finished.

* Try finishing a pencil sketch while cradling a drawing board in your elbow while also glancing up at a laptop screen to see if the computer startup has finished running.  Kind'a hard, isn't it?

John Peter Briton, "no longer with us"..?

What did I miss?

Anyway...

Here is a sketch I did of Modesty Blaise, in one of my attempts to get back into drawing.