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Darkness #21:    This book was a lot of fun. Here are some of the more interesting pages.  I did all the backgrounds shown (didn't do some trees).  This is over Francis Manapul's fun, stylized pencils.
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Darkness/Vampirella:    This book was a lot of fun. Here are some of the more interesting pages.  I did all the backgrounds shown over Eric Basaldua's pencils.  
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Tombraider #48 I did all the background work shown.  The first one I inked everything but the fighters.  That was a fun page.  These were all Leonard Kirk's sweet pencils.  
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Tombraider #47 here are a few of the more interesting pages of inks with Eric Basaldua's pencils.  I did backgrounds and blacks and some tech stuff like the helicopter.  Jay did the main stuff. 
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inks based on these pencils:   
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Tombraider #46 here are a few of the more interesting pages of inks with Eric Basaldua's pencils.  I did backgrounds and blacks and some tech stuff like the helicopter.  Jay did the main stuff.
Tombraider 46 p3 inked  72dpi.jpg (153583 bytes) Tombraider 46 p4 inked  72dpi.jpg (108177 bytes) Tombraider 46 p17 inked  72dpi.jpg (182507 bytes)  Tombraider 46 p21 inked 72dpi.jpg (146390 bytes) 
inks based on these pencils:   
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Witchblade 79 inks with Eric Basaldua's pencils.  I did backgrounds and blacks
Witchblade 79 p19 inked 72dpi.jpg (126149 bytes) Witchblade 79 p17 inked 72dpi.jpg (150268 bytes)
inks based on these pencils:   
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Jay Leisten is a great go-to guy when super-tight schedules have to be met and quality is still an absolute must.  This is a page I was lucky to even touch; it's page 11 from the Wolverine/WitchBlade crossover penciled by the tight penciler - Eric Basaldua.  I was in Jay's studio inking this page, so I didn't get to scan the inks, but here's a scan of the printed page.  I was able to do flat black and borders on this one.  I've gotten the opportunity to work on some Greg Land covers too, but I'll wait until they are published before displaying them here.
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Here are a few pages from TheDarkness #14.  I got to ink a good bit of the background shadows, and items like gun details, knife details, some of the background characters getting blasted, technical background items like TV's, tiles, etc... An interesting example of a minor contribution an inker may make is in the hospital scene in the last two pages in this list.  Here the penciler hurriedly indicated curtains with some loose, sketchy lines.  I got to tighten these up by inking with intentionally consistent verticals varying in distance from one another with line breaks to indicate light reflections.  A couple pages are fully inked, as I forgot to scan the partials before returning them to Jay.
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inks based on these pencils:   

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