Hey Zorro,
the drawings very on the time, this one was about two hours, an hour for the pencils and then another hour in painter.
The sketch pages are about the same, an hour for the double spread (I just draw across the two pages) and then another hour tighting up pencils and what not. I use a photo ref, or dvd grabs for poses a lot, and make up faces, clothes, etc. that or I make it up whole cloth. I tend to learn more from the ref pieces though.
I got out of art school with a degree in electronic media (3d, video, computers, that kind of stuff) and took some drawing classes here and there. I didn't major in the drawing end of things so I kind of do that in my spare time now.
Nothing wrong with some cat ears and some skirts
How bout you? art school?