New Style?

I really wanted to do something with a ball-point pen because I really like the flow of the ink. I had been working in photoshop, but I feel like I have more control with traditional means.

I kind of want to ink/color like this for my duel project. It'd be touched up in photoshop. I'm not sure if I would ad the text in there or not, but I probably would.

And yeah, there's a few things off in this drawing, but it was a quick little thing more to show off the style I want to try.

Yargy and Ninja-San

Just a few practice pictures of my characters for the duel I drew a while back. My scanner was being somewhat cooperative today so I got in some poses I did based off one of the books Chris had in class. The other picture is just expression practice for Yargy Blarg!

Yargy Blarg

I've been rethinking my idea for the duel lately and decided the other day I wanted to do a comical pirate vs ninja sort of deal.
I signed up to have the female win, and since I'm more of a ninja-supporter, it's going to be a female ninja and male pirate.
I think I want to set it in a supermarket. Like, they're both shopping, spot each other, and have some epic battle.

Something's wrong with my scanner so I can't post anything right now.

I have an hp photosmart and I want to preview the area scanned before it... you know, does an official scan. I used to be able to do this easily with my Lexmark. Am I just doing something wrong? Or does it not have a feature where you can select the area to scan?