[Deep Striker]

For the big tight car renderings, I usually work big, like on a sheet of 15"x20" cold press illustration board. Marker goes pretty well on it, and the board has a nice tooth that gives the pastel a little something to cling to. To keep everything clean I usually mask off areas with frisket paper.

I totally agree with you guys on the tracing thing. When you want to make a drawing super tight and accurate, it doesn't hurt to trace the overall image. For looser things like sketches then it doesn't really matter if you just freehand - sketches don't have to be really tight or anything. Just curious though, what kind of work do you guys do? (I mean lemorris and zwofurti)