Three states of a loose and fairly quick drawing I did at my usual cafe haunt. Basically I was having a miserable time trying to draw something of my own creation and was about mid-way through Iron Man Essential Vol.1 (first 32 or so issues from the early to mid 60s.)
While inking it I saw some issues and felt it would be fun to scan and do just a little clean up to the drawing, then I think what happened was that I was having trouble inking and blotched some quick yellow and dark blue to help me out... then I added more highlights and detail and worked on the shadows more and tried to fix some of the background... Oi.
The background and perspective look like afterthoughts because it was at the very start of this doodle. I just wanted to loosen the cobwebs and practice some more stylized linework--oh, and hopefully speed things up, which sadly didn't happen.
UPDATE: It was brought to my attention that the sidewalk goes through Iron Man's left leg, and it does. This was caused by putting the background linework onto its own layer via cut/create layer, and then just moving it around until I was pleased with the positioning. With my nose to the grindstone (my tablet) the two lines looked like lighting detail.
So why don't I spend the 2 minutes updating the layer and re-saving/uploading the files? To bring up the importance of a second or even third pair of eyes. Most of us aren't grand masters so it's rather helpful to have another set of eyes ask you why you did something that looks out of place. If you can't justify it reasonably, you probably need to fix it.
