Tim, I confess to not understanding why you think posting the original pages inked is somehow offensive. I inked these pages several months ago, when that's all there was of this project, but even so, I don't see the problem if I had inked these yesterday.

I don't recall JB requesting we not post the original 20-page story inked. If he has, I'll abide by whatever rules he's set up. These are his pages and this is his playground.

Your initial post sounded to me as though you thought I was doing something disrespectful.

In any event, I had created my bluelines from the content I had available to me at the time, which was the unlettered 20-page story from last summer. That's what is printed on artboards in my studio. I'd rather not waste that time and those art supplies, so when I get back to it, I'll be finishing that version first.

I'd love to start inking the lettered versions, too, but all in good time.

The spirit of this thread is definitely to allow people to stretch out artistically. Respect for the subject matter is implied and I thought I was being respectful by putting my work out there as well as trying to help others. I don't know how I am being "dismissive" by only inking the pages and doing some of the lettering duty. I don't think it is dismissive when Darren Taylor, Mark McKay or anyone else posts a portion of a page and I'm not sure why I would be singled out when I post a portion of a page. There is nothing dismissive or disrespectful intended when I post pages that are fulling inked, but partially lettered. Back on page 6 of this thread I did post a page with lettering and it took a very long time to get right. Since I have no intention of being a letterer I would rather spend that time inking images and practicing with a brush and quill.

JB is a wonderful storyteller. I doubt there are many (if any) on this board who don't admire his writing. But, for goodness sake, this is a thread about inking his art. You may prefer the words in place, but to say that to post art without the words is wrong is simply going too far, Tim.

Tim, take a look at the history of my posts and you will see a variety of attempts while I wrestled with the dialog on pages when posting a page. I've tried printing my blue line boards with the boarders, balloons and dialog in black to save a step, but the "customer use" copiers can't print well on smooth bristol boards and those elements get scraped off by a straight edge eventually. I've tried everything and the only way I can get the dialog on the page is to digitally add it and that is as I mentioned too time consuming. Since posting my pages without the dialog might offend I will simply post potions that are not complete for comment. So let's get back to putting up some art.

I am liking how the Prototype Sentinel is coming out on this page:

This panel is a lot of fun. This is the fourth time I have inked it:

And, I do like the effects on this panel and I am salivating to do page 15 of issue #3. This is also my fourth time: