Various stages of an ink line drawing

Here are the stages that I go through when doing an ink line drawing.


I first do several compositional sketches, drawing from photographs taken of the subject.


Then I do a rough pencil drawing on tracing paper directly over the previous sketch to establish the final gray and black tones.


I trace the previous drawing onto a piece of illustration board.


Using a technical pen I draw the basic outline.


Gradually I add the various tones using the photographs as reference.