When he was done inking and the ink had dried, which it did rapidly, he brought out a good gum eraser and removed all of the pencil marks.  It was fascinating to watch this beautiful drawing emerge.  The inking was the most amazing thing to see.  His pencils were sketchy and looked like a typical doodle due to their lack of detail but when he applied that ink...  Wow!  What a craftsman!  I loved to watch him!

I asked him how he kept things, i.e. the figure's, in such proportion and he said it's a struggle for all artists as there's a tendency, which he said he has to fight, not to draw them with the legs or torso too short. He did say that he was past putting huge noses on them (my own problem, one I can't shed).  He didn't need to do the kind of tricks to maintain proportion that I'd read of other artists using, such as keeping the torso at three or four times the head size, the legs even more; he just eyeballed it.  The results were really impressive!