Screwing around with technique

I have been wanting to try some crazier, looser techniques in watercolor that I have seen others do.  The paper in the notebook I used was too porous to handle all the water that I threw at it (you can see the radiating wrinkles on the right side of the picture).  It was fun anyway.  I really liked using the white gel pen to add highlights.

And this is a partial swipe of the cover for the first issue of The Mercenary Sea (by Mathew Reynolds) in order to try out some brushes for inking.  I made the guy look like a Scooby Doo villian, though.