I hesitate to call these drawings; they contain mostly pencil, ink and watercolor – maybe they would be better categorized as mixed media. For these three I began each with very faint pencil lines and/or some watercolor washes, followed by ink and/or charcoal to define lines and add weight. The overall compositions happen organically, an element inserted in a certain place is balanced by another. Once the composition and outlines are complete colored pencil and/or gouache fill in some of the shapes. Patterns and details in ink are scattered throughout during the whole process, sometimes painted over.
Gessoed and sanded the panels three times to create a smooth surface and begin connecting with them.
They all started with blue grid lines, although I had no intention of using a grid-method to enlarge an image (nice tutorial on that here: 
John Otter 