Comments on: Essential Strategies to Inking Your Pencil Drawings

By: lupzdut

lupzdut — Fri, 01 May 2009 20:11:36 +0000

Thank you so much for this! It has a lot of useful information. I hope we get to see more non-digital tutorials like this one. Thanks again.

By: Kenny

Kenny — Fri, 01 May 2009 19:55:18 +0000

What kind of brush are you using again?

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By: Fardunwaith

Fardunwaith — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:33:41 +0000

Bill,

Thanks very much, I am working my way into this area of drawing (mostly technical) and really appreciate the detail in this tutorial. As several people said, seeing you tackle more technical drawings would be great. Thanks a ton to you and everyone else at Go Media!

By: Nate

Nate — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:15:53 +0000

Bill-

Thanks for the tutorial. I appreciate your well-articulated instruction.

I’ve been attempting more brush and digital inking recently and having the opportunity to watch your process has definitely helped clarify some technical questions that have been bugging me.

I echo Mary’s interest in seeing how you tackle mechanical/manmade objects.

I look forward to seeing more in the future and will definitely pass on this tutorial.

Great work.

By: Mary

Mary — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 01:44:17 +0000

Hi Bill, I was wondering if you use the brush as well to ink straight lines. For example, buildings and stuff like that.

Thanks ! Keep up the excellent work.

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:09:57 +0000

As far as scanning and coloring – normally you DO NOT Vectorize a comic book style drawing. There is just WAY too much detail in there. Normally you will just scan it at high resolution then take it into Photoshop or Corel Paint to color it.

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:07:59 +0000

Typically the inking is done on the SAME paper as the pencil drawing. Once the inking is done and left for a day to dry – the piece is gone back over with an eraser to clean up any left over pencil lines. SO, normally the pencil drawing is lost.

It IS possible to use a light box and redraw the entire piece on a different sheet of paper. But this would take a lot of work. If I’m really concerned about preserving my pencil drawing, I’ll just scan it into my computer at super high resolution… so people can see what the “before” drawing looked like.

By: Mordos

Mordos — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:56:13 +0000

Very very nicey done, thanks for the tips !!

By: Farishta

Farishta — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 07:47:38 +0000

that was very interesting ! this video tutorial is great :D
I was wondering if you re-draw on the paper before inking, or there is a technique to transfer a drawing ?