This week I've been working on the trading cards for the upcoming Kickstarter for Swords of Cerebus In Hell? Volumes 11 and 12.
The Hermann card is in progress:
The border was briefly orange, but Hermann is an Aardvark, so he should have a black border. (Unless I decide to give him the title of ARTIFICIAL CHEESE-DUST COVERED AARDVARK. Then the border could be orange.)
I was trying to see how long it would take to do sketch cards of Batvark and Dr. Varkhatten. Batvark always takes a long time to draw. I filled in the left side of the figure with mostly black, which looks alright, and saved some time. The grey was added with a water-based marker, the same as the previous Cerebus sketch card. Water-based markers draw mostly smoothly over India Ink.
The first take on Varkhatten looked a bit off. The nib was dying, and the sketch cards are unforgiving with ink anyway, leaving a less than precise line. Additionally, the blue marker is Alcohol-based, which, apparently, smears India Ink badly.
The next Varkhatten card was drawn with a Micron pen and colored with the Alcohol-based marker. The ink didn't smear, except in the large black circle on his chest. The Alcohol-based marker bleeds through the card. The Water-Based marker does not. I'll be looking for a blue Water-based marker soon.
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