Warming Up or: How to draw Tiger

Hi, everyone! Missed me?
At any rate I missed all that webcomicking stuff, but that all-too long wait should now be over. From Friday 13th, for that's always a great date, I will finally continue my comic on something approaching a two-weekly basis. I've already done a couple of new pages, some even in colour, and it may well be possible that on top of everything I may be able to add some more before my buffer runs out again.
In the meantime, I've got this little picture to bridge the last few days of waiting. Since I took part in so many forum and community blog discussions about making comics, I thought I might as well give you something of an insight in my preferred working mode. So I scanned the typical three stages of a typical Tiger drawing - pencil, ink, colour - and juxtaposed them with a couple of photos of my preferred working gear. It was a nice exercise for using Gimp, too, even if that's the one tool I normally hardly ever use for comics (with one exception among the upcoming updates).
See you this Friday, then!