So, I've mentioned 24-Hour Comic Day. I've been making some preparations.
First, the fine folks at Wacom have lent me a Cintiq for the event. It arrived a little early so I can mess around with it beforehand. Drawing on it is different, to be sure, 
but it's also awesome. I don't know if I could get used to drawing completely digital, but it's worth pursuing. You've got to keep trying and growing as an artist.
I did a couple of rough images on the tablet. Basically, I'm drawing a light blue pencil underdrawing and quickly moving to inks. I've decided to do the book in a two-tone format, heavily inspired by Darwyn Cooke's The Hunter. (By "inspired" you can say "out and out theft". But, if you're going to steal, steal from the best.) The two color style allows a nice, quick way to establish planes in the drawing. I think it'll look slick.
So, the samples I did are also in two color. I worked the ink layer, added colors and then went in and 
cleaned up. I think it worked fairly well.
Then I did a sample page. I haven't thought too much about the plot of whatever book I do, but I figure it'll be a relationship story. That's my wheelhouse, and it's best if I do a book that is simpler in scope than, say, complicated 3-point perspective cities and space warships. Not thinking of a story is like not thinking of pink elephants, so I can't say story beats aren't coming to me. We'll see if I actually use them.
I also figured it's okay to do as much prep work as possible. I'm testing the Cintiq and process, so I've designed a template page as well. It's the same as using pre-ruled paper.
So, I gave myself a one-hour time limit and tried to knock out a page. I came in at 45 minutes from start to finish, so that's not bad. It's also a simple page, and I'm sure I'll have some tough ones as I go, too. I even lettered it and then tweaked the original and reimported it. It's good to see the flexibility I'll have.
Click on anything to see it larger. I'm pretty happy with this first run. We'll see how Saturday goes.