Did this one in gouache, with aquarelle pencils and cray-pas, and then finished digitally. I'm actually quite surprised how well the gouache painting came out - with some practice I think I can work entirely that way. I plan to start doing exercises on small pre-cut cards of watercolor paper (this one was in the Strathmore 500 Mixed Media sketchbook) to develop skills and practice techniques.
The rest of these are just comic figure quick-sketch. Finch made it clear that these are the key to becoming a comic book artist (not that I want to do that exactly, but I think it will help a lot toward heroic fantasy painting and similar genres). You need to do hundreds or thousands of these, in every position, from every angle, and in all kinds of perspectives and lighting conditions. It's really at this level of drawing that you make it or break it - save all the tight rendering etc for afterwards.
Of course these are pretty extreme - derived from Jack Kirby's extremely dynamic style (which is what was meant by "The Marvel Way" - it could have more rightly been called "The Kirby Way"). For painting you wouldn't do them so intensely in terms of pose and viewing angle etc, but knowing how to do that doesn't hurt. In fact I believe in developing the ability to do things beyond what you'll actually need - once you've done that it's a simple matter to ease off a bit - but if you learn to draw figures only in static standing, seated and reclining poses then you won't be able to do anything more dynamic.
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