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Just finished re-reading Gotham Central book 1. What a combination of writers and artists! Ed Brubaker and Greg Rucka are titans on their own, having transformed noir comics pretty much singlehandedly in the last twenty years, so having them tag team on a Batman police procedural title was a dream come true. Even years after the series wrapped up, this series is still pure pleasure to read

The art, by Michael Lark, perfectly suits the tone of the series. Brubaker works so well with Lark.

I haven't done a great job of making use of brown envelopes in the past, so thought I'd try and integrate the colours in this piece. Grey, brown and black. I like it

Another crazy weekend of sales this week, with 7 to draw in one weekend and I've fallen a little behind, but feeling too inspired to dash out flowers. Everyone who sees this thinks it's a woman. It's a man with long hair

We just bought some new pens this weekend - Promarkers - and last night I got back and laid some lines down for this Catwoman piece. I wasn't too sure about the colours, but Elena took over and I went down to handle some business. When I came back up I couldn't believe my eyes. Elena had laid the colours down perfectly!

She's done a great job on the skin texture and eyes especially.

One little subtle point you may not notice is that one the cheeks the ink has bled through a little and you can see the dotty textures beneath, which gives it a retro sort of Warhol, early 4 colour print look.

We spent most of this morning staring at this!

On another point, I drew this upside down. This is the second picture I've done upside down as I find it really hard not to make faces symmetrical when I'm drawing. Turning an image upside down really helps as it removes the temptation to look at what you're drawing and just frees you up to follow the shapes and lines. If you've not done this before try it!

I read "Broken City", a Batman book by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso this weekend. The writer/artist team also wrote a fantastic series called 100 bullets, and if you haven't read that yet go grab it off the shelves! Sadly this time the team didn't deliver the goods in my opinion, but Risso's artwork still draws me in. He seems to effortless in his control of tones, much in the same style as Frank Miller, making heavy use of shadow to express the heavy oppressiveness of his formsEver since reading Sin City I've wanted to draw like Frank Miller but these days the shadowmaster I want to emulate is Eduardo Risso and this is my attempt to do so.This little number is winging it's way to Latvia, complete with a packet of Sharpies inside and the heavy colouring was completed by Elena in between bouts of gardening this weekend

On the back is a silhouette of a phone box in downtown Gotham city's Japanese district