SPQR Blues Chapters I-V

The loose pencil layouts for Big Project are coming in useful for playing with different pens and pencils and Copic markers. After this mundane scene exciting stuff in a scientifictional vein happens.

From this bit of rough scribbling I learned that Kuretake Zig CocoIro pens smear horrendously under an eraser on the Canson paper I used for the sketches [update! unless you let the ink dry for an hour!], and that I have no idea how to scan this so the grey shading doesn’t look weird.

Oddly, I’m most pleased with the sketch of the faucet.