Character Design & Brush testing

I am still developing the cast for my new scifi plot.
And I am at the moment working on one or maybe two, three guys/gals living in the mountains and the woods.
Like most of the cast, they’re neither good nor bad, but somewhere in between.
The idea, and their role in the plot, just came to me a couple of days ago.
I did these two first ones more or less in between other stuff, or while talking on the phone.
The paper is rather descent, half rough sketch paper, and I first pencilled a little, then went over with a 0.2 Artline ink pen and the black spots I think was done with a thick Sharpie.

forest-guy done with ink pen and marker.

 

forest-guys marker and pen

Yesterday I was doing a few errands down in Los LLanos, and I decided to try to find a good brush for inking.
The ones I brought from Norway, are all warn out, and I’ve had a hell of a time finding something even close to a good inking brush. Let alone soble or something in that ballpark. I knew I’d have to settle for synthetic.
I got lucky in Papelia Vera. I found one close to decent, and two half way there. That was all they had, and it even set me back 9,80 Euros!.
The result…

forest-guys done with ink and brush. Then lightly touched up by an Artline 0.2 mm

But I will keep searching, or I will have to shop on-line.
I am slowly getting to a point where I give up finding a store that can supply me here out in the south Atlantic.

Now that was it for now, but I’ll be back soon. Stay tuned….. :)