Learning from Becky Cloonan's process

I've only recently (since September) started using Instagram as a platform to show my artwork, and have obviously followed some of my favourite illustrators, as well as discovering new ones. As a result, I've gained a bit of an insight in to their process of making - particularly that of Becky Cloonan:

She's probably my favourite illustrator of comics and graphic novels, and I've admired her work for a couple of years. She often posts sketches and developmental work, as well as finished pieces, which allows me to understand her personal way of working, and how it might perhaps work for me.

I've mentioned before that I'm a bit of a perfectionist, which means I tend to draw on a smaller scale with a very hard thin pencil (recently I've come to prefer mehanical pencils because of the line quality). However, as pictured, Cloonan's choice is actually a softer thicker B pencil, allowing her to get in basic lines and shapes before bringing them into a larger scale for finished work. Observing this, it occurs to me that I need to start experimenting in my own sketches by doing the same. I can tend to get too possessive over having perfect drawings in my sketchbook, and I can also be unwilling to use more than one type of pen or pencil in the same drawing - this is often because I'm lazy.

I recognised this after going to the Jamie Hewlett exhibition as well, and really need to start working bigger with a variety of mark-making tools, and ditch the mechanical pencil and fineliner more often!