How do you ink?

Guardsman · Post by **Guardsman** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 12:50 am

I made a little video of my own, but I do my stuff on a wide screen so it looks a little funky. Good example of the fundamentals of my style though.

Oh and that’s only my second attempt to draw Naruto, I’ll do a ton of sketches this week and most likely roll some thing ‘A’ quality out next weekend. I’m going to be doing a set of around eight high quality prints, one for a different character of Naruto, for the Anime Evolution con. I’m going to have a artiest ally table there. I’ll also draw up two of my own characters for it too!

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=GuardsmanKR

Liddell · Post by **Liddell** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 4:42 pm

I sketch in pencil and then go over my sketches with one of those special pens I bought at an art store. I forget what it's called, but it works better than a ballpoint pen.

Actually, I do everything offline, since I don't have internet (or a scanner) at home. Hooray for old school!

Flames05 · Post by **Flames05** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 9:57 pm

i sketch by pencil then ink w photoshop. no matter how i ink by pen and then edit w photoshop, the lines always don't end up the way i want them to, so i just started doing the lines via PS ORZ

Levi-chan · Post by **Levi-chan** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 10:09 pm

Sif ink. When I was a wee young lad, all we had were pencils! With no sharpeners! And we were happy!

Aiken · Post by **Aiken** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 4:27 am

I've been wondering if a laptop with a touchscreen would be of any use in artwork. I think Scott Ramsoomir uses one. It would certainly be more intuative than a tablet, and more mobile. My only concern would be the lack of pressure and tilt sensing, and possible the resolution might not be good enough to keep the line quality.
Comments anybody?

Turnsky · Post by **Turnsky** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 6:21 am

Aiken wrote:I've been wondering if a laptop with a touchscreen would be of any use in artwork. I think Scott Ramsoomir uses one. It would certainly be more intuative than a tablet, and more mobile. My only concern would be the lack of pressure and tilt sensing, and possible the resolution might not be good enough to keep the line quality.
Comments anybody?

you mean a tablet PC, right?.. There's those, and then there's the Wacom Cintiq, which is essentually a LCD monitor that works like most tablets.

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 7:14 am

I think he means one of those little screen thingies that are built in next to keyboard as a replacement for mouse.
They're awfully funny at first, but they aren't any more useful for drawing than a mouse.

Turnsky · Post by **Turnsky** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 8:59 am

mcDuffies wrote:I think he means one of those little screen thingies that are built in next to keyboard as a replacement for mouse.
They're awfully funny at first, but they aren't any more useful for drawing than a mouse.

a.....touchpad.. oh lordy.

Sorcery101 · Post by **Sorcery101** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 9:59 am

Touchpads are actually worse for you than a mouse, this is health wise. A semester of using the touch pad gave me serious carpel tunnel. So if you have a mouse I'd stick with that other than the touch pad. When years of using a mouse wasn't effect me too bad.

Aiken · Post by **Aiken** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 3:04 am

Actually I was reffering to a tablet pc, I just couldn't think of the words...

I currently use an A4 wacom intuos 3, and i love it, but when visiting family its a hassle to pack it in my luggage in addition to my laptop. Not to mention to paronoia of baggage handlers at the airport.

Webkilla · Post by **Webkilla** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 11:02 am

all done digitally done - hueg tablets ftw!

Lunar · Post by **Lunar** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 11:24 am

I draw with pencil, ink and colour in photoshop. I just find it easier to correct inkwork done on the computer than correcting mistakes made when I do it by hand on the computer, plus my ink pen dried up and I haven't had time to go get a new one.

RPin · Post by **RPin** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 1:08 pm

Lunar wrote:I just find it easier to correct inkwork done on the computer than correcting mistakes made when I do it by hand on the computer.

You can ink by hand and correct whatever goofs you made later on photoshop/gimp/whatever, you know. Not that I'm advocating one over another, but I find inking digitally a very bad thing for people with carpal tunnel syndrome.

Plothole · Post by **Plothole** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 1:13 pm

my exact process is:

I start with a quick sketch in illustrator.
Then I draw most of the page in pencil.
When that's done, I scan into photoshop and clean it up just a bit.
Next I import to illustrator, where I finish off the page (mostly adding little mechanical details like the markings on a ship), and then do the inking portion as well as add in speech bubbles.

The reason I do most of the actual drawing on paper is because my hand just isn't steady enough with the tablet.

Redtech · Post by **Redtech** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 1:52 pm

....Pencils and ugly, ugly pens!

I just don't bother erasing mistakes since I calibrated my scanner to remove anything that isn't black.

I'm obliged to do a racism joke now.

Keffria · Post by **Keffria** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 3:33 pm

All digital for me. Using my tablet, I start out with very rough underwork, refine it with clearer-looking sketches, stick a blue overlay over that, and then ink, shade, and hand-letter it. Although it takes longer to sketch out the comic by tablet, the inking process is much easier and less frustrating, as I can undo the various mistakes I make.

Guyford · Post by **Guyford** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 6:32 pm

Aaaah, I picked the wrong thing on the poll. I don't do too well with inking with a tablet, so I draw in pencil and ink by hand.

BoShek · Post by **BoShek** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 8:36 pm

I have a really inelegant ink thing going on right now with roller-balls for most lines and outlines in Sharpie to give the pages good outlines. Looks okay on paper, but worse online... which is a shame, as this is a webcomic. The key to the Sharpie method is draw nice and big, one to three panels per 8 1/2 x 11 page. This is probably standard size but until recently I would draw whole pages on one sheet. Then, Foggy Pandora started and Sharpiestyle was born.

Turnsky · Post by **Turnsky** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 12:53 am

Keffria wrote:All digital for me. Using my tablet, I start out with very rough underwork, refine it with clearer-looking sketches, stick a blue overlay over that, and then ink, shade, and hand-letter it. Although it takes longer to sketch out the comic by tablet, the inking process is much easier and less frustrating, as I can undo the various mistakes I make.

purely in photoshop?

ChaosBurnFlame · Post by **ChaosBurnFlame** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 2:51 am

Guardsman wrote:Alright I made this poll because I was curious about how different authors on genesis ink. I for one sketch out my characters then take them in to Manga Studio and ink them there using my wacom tablet.

So guys and gals, how do you ink traditionally, or digitally? Maybe you ink like I do sketch and tablet +program?

Guardsman.

I ink with a brush and india ink.

And I find it odd you don't have that listed as an option, since that's been the standard with the comic industry for decades.

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