No grid. No initial graphite sketch. No large sections blocked out – it was all done one little area at a time.

About 2.5 hours using Derwent Coloursofts. The scan saturated the colors – the original is nowhere near as polyester in appearance.

Here’s the same sketch, this time with 300 (versus 60 or so), and unsharp mask off.

I can’t see any damn difference.

This time set at 96dpi, and scanned in for a target of 4″ x 6″ (usually I scan it at original). Auto levels used in Photoshop as per usual:

4800dpi at 4″ x 6″. Took a couple of minutes to scan.