There’s something about sketches that I am always losing during inking. I don’t know why, but maybe it’s the step of cleaning up that takes the life out of the picture?
Maybe it’s just my habbit of overworking things and the fact that the lose lines of a sketch easily hide smaller flaws in anatomy and expression? A good sketch is immediate, but cleaned inks always come with extra steps between the idea and their viewer.
Who knows? Still, it’s sad to lose this tiny spark each time I ink one of my sketches.