1) I noticed very few (if any) pencil marks on the page. When inking yourself, do you do a lot of it in ink - even the incredibly intricate architecture??

and 2) I also noticed you chose to do the work on the backside of the page - without all the blue-line guides and stuff. Is this normal for you and if so, why?

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1)When I am going to ink my own work I do loose or minimal pencils. This is something that evolved while I was working on FANTASTIC FOUR. The first few issues were penciled under the assumption Terry Austin would ink, so I did the same kinds of pencils I had been doing on UNCANNY X-MEN. Then it turned out I would be inking the pages myself. For a few issues, I continued doint full pencils, until it began to sink in that once I did the layouts, the tightening in pencil was pretty much seamless. Reaching for the eraser was rare indeed. So I started "penciling in ink", doing the same kinds of layouts -- including perspective grids, which helps a whole lot with the architecture -- I had done for my pencils.