This bears a bit of an explanation...

Gerde is my character in a freeform Iron Kingdoms game I'm in. She's an ogrun fighter who uses her fists for everything (though she has been known to hurl a table or barrel at an opponent on occasion). Despite her penchant for hand to hand combat she is actually a very sensitive and easygoing soul, who loves art. You see, Gerde lacks the ability to read and write but she makes up for it by drawing the more important things that happen to her (on this occasion she was single-handedly fighting three sharks underwater).

So this picture is done in Gerde's own "style", such as it is.

Gerde's three steps to success: Geometric shapes, heavy black outlines, and lots of blood (tip: unwanted ink splatters can be easily converted into blood).

Now, as for my personal choices, I wanted to convey Gerde's rough but evocative style as efficiently as possible without overworking it. So I went for messy, water soluble ink for the outlines and basic quality watercolours for the rest. I think it did the trick.