I have never been a fast penciller. I can ink pretty well, pretty fast, but when it comes to pencilling I have always been like, snail crawling uphill through molasses slow. It's not a "work turns out beautiful when I take a week on one panel" kind of slow either. It's a feeling similar to pulling teeth. Frustrating, destructive and painful. That's why I need to just let go and draw. I need to stop concentrating on what the lines look like and just put them down and move on.
Starting tonight I made a valiant effort to try to overcome my handicap by drawing more quickly than I have ever before. I completed a 9" by 12" fully inked pinup in under 2 hours. For me, that's like building a car in a day. And you know what? The piece came out no worse than if I would have taken the usual 5-6 hours to do it.
Check my gallery for the Power Girl entry, what I hope will be the first of many 2 hour or less drawings. This drawing was heavily influenced by Adam Hughes but that's the case with any female character I draw.