Brush Pen, Microns, Markers, Goauche
They started off as lettering exercises and eventually became about drawing in ways I'm not used to. When I was a kid I always refused to allow myself to copy from other images because I thought it was stealing or cheating or whatever, but this was a lot of fun and I feel like I can get away with it now because I've built up years of credit with my child-self. Or maybe it's because I've betrayed my child-self so much already as an adult it doesn't matter what I do now.
The exercise was a success in that I had fun drawing, but it was a failure in that I didn't really spend any time figuring out how most of these people draw. Whenever I draw my own comics I often spend a page or two of sketches playing with different tools and line-weights before I feel good about what I'm going to draw. And I think it would have been fun to do that with their styles, just to get a better idea of how they make their strokes. But with these I just dove right in with usually just a pen or brush-pen and tried my best to force their lines.
All the artists copied were chosen because their books were close to my desk (I think the Mickey Mouse is from a comic I read online somewhere).
