I used medium weight Bristol paper (70lb) for this piece. For me, when it comes to using markers I prefer to use a light paper, such as 50lb, so I can get a smooth blending effect, like watercolors. I don't like marker paper as much because it is harder to blend the colors as it dries fast. You don't want to use a heavy paper for markers either, as it will suck your markers dry in no time.

The pencils here are actually much, much lighter than this, but I wanted them to be seen on the computer.

While Dinobot's background dried I penned Waspinator. I kept going back and forth between the two pictures, so they'd have enough time to dry between layers and so I'd get them done at the same time.

Here I've got the background done. It's not exactly like the sketch version, but gradients are much more easily done (and abused!) on computers.

Here I got alittle carried away, and instead of laying in all the base colors I've just done his eyes. I wanted to get some nice blending effects on them, so it was easier to do them all at once, and work wet-on-wet.

Wet-on-wet work is great for blending colors. However, if you're going for a more hard-edged style like in animation it is best to let your colors dry before you add another application or a shade.

I waited for the colors to dry then added the stipping on his eyes so they'd resemble the facets on the 3D Waspy.

I've marked the areas that'll be golden yellow with a brighter yellow. I don't want his stripes to be very shiney, so this yellow will be the lightest it gets.

Also I've done his body piece. It's actually black, but I'm using greens for highlights instead of grey. I'll go back again and make them darker later. I worked wet on wet to blend the colors here.

I've darkened the green areas on his body piece, as well as done his stripes. Again I worked wet-on-wet so I could blend stuff. I've also done his gold areas, but I used a wet on wet technique on them for them too, because I thought it'd look nice.