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darthmongoose In reply to ananien [2006-02-11 01:56:55 +0000 UTC]

Juliet was being artistic with the trap. She wanted the victim to be in an aesthetically pleasing pose when captured! ^_^

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darthmongoose In reply to aoikiwi [2006-02-08 11:15:49 +0000 UTC]

Listen well young kiwi as I impart to you my secret inking technique!

I'm assuming you know the basics, do the thing in pencil, ink it, rub out the pencil. But I have refined the whole thing down through practice!
1. Unless it's for a REALLY fine line like the mouth, or some eye detail, always use at least a 0.5 size fineliner (sometimes a 0.8 or even a 1.0 will give beautiful strong, smooth lines!) The smaller a nib you use, the more the paper will catch the natural hand shaking and also the weaker and more scratchy lines will look.
2. Once you've done the lines all over once and rubbed the pencil, redo all the lines, paying special attention to areas that look weak, and enforcing the lines, smoothing them off, stuff like that. Sometimes I'll ink a single line as many as three or even four times.
3. Few people are aware of it, but you can use a pen just like a pencil, you can press soft or hard, and use the tip or the edge. With experience, you'll find you barely need to resort to finer tipped pens except for the most fine and detailed work.
Um...that's really everything there is to it. I started off absolutely terrible at inking. It's really just something you need to practice.

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aoikiwi In reply to darthmongoose [2006-02-09 00:48:11 +0000 UTC]

Ahh, no wonder, for some weird reason I always thought it was supposed to be a bad thing to use a thick-tipped pen when inking. After trying it out, though, sharpie actually looks a lot nicer and less scribbly than micron on the major lines. (Which just goes to show that when it comes to manga, if it looks nice, then I guess it doesn't matter what people say you 'ought' or 'ought not' to do anyways. : P) And #3- interesting, I'm gonna have to try that out now. Thanks for the tips, senpai! ^_^

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darthmongoose In reply to aoikiwi [2006-02-09 07:17:54 +0000 UTC]

Any time! I think people view thick pen as 'bad' because a lot of manga artists draw in a very delicate, doujinshi style, which if inked with too thick lines just looks really clumsy. Back when I used to go in for big, Clamp style eyes and pointy noses and chins, I would always go for the thinnest possible pen. However, when I saw Clamp's newer stuff, like Tsubasa Resevoir, with those lovely strong lines, I thought 'I want that effect!' and started to try with thicker pens. It turned out that the thicker lines really compliment the bolder drawing style that I was starting to develop. You can see from looking at the comic though, that I hadn't really got the hang properly until around page 10, where you see the line quality suddenly improve.
I hope to see something good from you soon! ^_^

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darthmongoose In reply to Indigo14 [2006-01-29 12:39:48 +0000 UTC]

Hahahaa. Well, I had to get around the fact that on hyper comix where I put the comic, FanDanGo is one of the few comics without a 'mature 18+' logo next to it. In order to keep the comic with a wide age range, I have to be pretty creative with the dialogue sometimes. Since Red Dwarf is a superb series, I couldn't resist using 'Smeg Head', especially since it's an English comic so having a homage to a British sitcom makes sense! ^_^

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Indigo14 In reply to darthmongoose [2006-01-29 16:54:38 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, Red Dwarf is just the best thing ever. It's a great drawing too.

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darthmongoose In reply to Kxela [2006-01-29 00:49:01 +0000 UTC]

Hahaha, it's faster to read if you have an English accent, apparently the conversation on the last page is easier with an English accent due to use of the word 'percent'.

Rekki isn't blushing so much as flushed. She's very angry and also is upside down, so the blood has rushed to her head hahaha!

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