An Interesting Little Exercise

So I noticed this very interesting little warm-up exercise in comic creation, and I decided to give it a shot. Essentially, the idea is to use a brush or brushpen to make some squiggly shapes and smudges, and then to create a story out of those shapes.

I wound up using one of my old, dying brushpens for the exercise.

Here is the intermediate sketch, with the scribbles in ink and the details sort of penciled in. This actually initially started out as something about a cyclops but I really liked the second panel as being a falcon. And this turned out to be funnier.

Here's the final result:

For me, this all took around forty-five minutes.

This was a lot of fun. You should all try it.