Sketch on Sketch

I've mentioned it before, but a technique I like to occasionally do with digital is to use a color brush and just slop down a big spread of paint or pencil dusting or whichever, then go back and use an eraser tool to "carve" the design into it, keeping it on the same layer. In this case, I actually just ended up using a white pencil line over a black tilted pencil spread. The effect is the same, really. The challenge here is that, while I am using digital and I can still use the undo button, this is a lot less forgiving of a technique for immediate fixes. It's harder to go back and do any touch-up work without making obvious screw ups with the texturing, and resizing/repositioning just messes things up even further.

So unless you're willing to undo a bunch of otherwise good lines to try and fix one messed up line you don't catch until later (and it's easy to end up exceeding your undo limit depending on the program anyway), you're stuck with the mistakes you make, almost like using actual pen on paper. Obviously, you could still touch things up if you really wanted to with delicate patchwork, but you're usually still making the patch-up more of a hassle than is worth it for a sketch.

In any case, I also think it makes for a striking visual style, as well as a neat little challenge to myself.