By late 2010, I had been working on my “Daddy Issues” series for over a year.
I needed a break from acrylic and ink.  So, in October I started work on an untitled project.

I’ve always been most comfortable using graphite. It’s easy to control and gradate.
 I like to use a super-soft 8B lead in a Rapidomatic holder.
“Manimals” started in earnest, as an 11 X 20″ illustration in my sketchbook.

When I finished the drawing portion, I scanned it at 600 DPI and cleaned up the file in Photoshop.
From there, I printed the resulting hi-res .tiff to a treated canvas.
I used gouache and light washes of acrylic to build the color on top of the black line work.

“Manimals” has since become my most popular print (in sales terms.) I kept the original.

All photos courtesy of Nicole Fallek.