Test sketches with my scribble technique. Critiques and comments on the drawings, the style and the overall effect are very much welcomed.

Individual sketch commentaries (from top left):

Failed Sketch #1
This was the first doodle, and the reason why I stopped trying to draw something, and instead just drew and waited for the picture to emerge. I was trying for something like the sketch below and to the left, but the proportions, pose and angles were all wrong so I abandoned it.

Failed Sketch #2
Learning from my mistake from the previous sketch, I just let the pen dance here... but unfortunately I kept it in too small an area for too long and ended up with something like a forearm and clawed hand. Cool if joined to something, perhaps... but an arm isn't so thrilling, so I abandoned it.

Baatezu
The devil's head. This one was the second finished sketch (yes, my order of doing things is very odd), but it's a good example of the process my sketching goes through: The oddly-angled, unsymettrical cheekbones are what jumped out at me first here, followed by the horns and from that, I shaped the rest of the scribble to match the theme.
In doing the detail in red, I decided to keep things simple; merely doing the outline, the eyes and mouth as reference points for the viewer. I purposely left the rest of the facial details in among the scribble so that the viewer can interpret it in a variety of ways. I think it adds to the overall 'unnatural' feeling of the potrait. This is also one of the best examples of how this style adds texture without intricate detail.

The Defeated Monarch
Head bowed as if the weight of the dead pulled at his brow, he let his shield fall clattering to the blasted soil. A gust of stale air threw his tattered cloak out behind him as he closed his eyes and sighed lament for the lost, whose charnel stench already tugged at his nostrils.
The warlord, still slick with gore and sweat from the prolonged battle, sneered at the broken king before him. His greedy eyes fell upon the ring his foe gripped between thumb and forefinger. With a grunt, he yanked his blade from the standard bearer it had impaled and advanced. For he meant to take every last memory from the man.
Perversely, this was the final picture to be drawn. I'm proud of the overall look of this one, and the little details which dropped out on their own (like the held object in the left hand), though I'm somewhat less proud of the rushed-looking cape: I tried to force that part, and it shows.
As I created this one I began to notice for the first time a trend in which I would often draw headless figures before moving on to make them seem less... decapitated. This might be a troubling look into my subconsious...

The Spectre
This was the very first picture I completed, and I'm very fond of it since it has a wonderfully ghostly feel to it. The claw-like fingers in particular look fitting for the overall character. The order was a little odd here though: the beefy arm came first (too much Bleach, methinks), followed by the torso, leading into the lower body, the second arm next, and the head last of all.
You may, if you wish, consider this to be the Warlord from the previous little story, though really, I can see this guy as more of a blackguard, or vengeful wraith.

Samurai
Ugh... of all the finished pictures, this is my least favourite. The proportions are all wrong, and the head shape is wierd. It was the eyebrows and eyes which I spotted first here, and it seems to have led to a traditional Japanese-esq portrait (something like this: [link]). Still... looks terrible. For those of you interested in following the order in which I drew these, this picture was the penultimate one.

Survivor
This one was almost failed Sketch #3, but is now my favourite of the lot. Basically, I couldn't see anything in the scribble for a long time, and I almost gave up on it. But then I saw the eye, and the rest of the picture grew up around it. The head-shaped had a sort of muzzle by that point so I added the gas mask, and in trying to explain the lack of a second eye, I followed the scribble lines to create the bandage that covers much of his face. I like to think of this one as a young apocalypse survivor, with all the dystopian trappings.
If you look closely, you should see that the ear I added has an elfen point to it.
This bottom row was drawn in order from left to right, after the devil face, but before the King or Samurai.

Xur'thilk
Ah, a cthulhuan monstrosity... it was inevitable, really. Almost a (highly thrilling) leg, I spotted the eye and began transforming it into a bulbous-headed, slender-necked, tentacle-mouthed creature. I think the little fins I gave it makes it seem slightly less hostile, and though I'm fairly proud of this one, it annoys me that I made the tentacles go against the flow of the scribble, because it doesn't look quite right.