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JoelPoischen In reply to lexxyjade [2012-07-03 08:22:43 +0000 UTC]

Thanks a lot!

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JoelPoischen In reply to Ericaust [2011-09-01 14:02:19 +0000 UTC]

Thanks a lot!

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JoelPoischen In reply to olivernome [2010-04-13 06:12:20 +0000 UTC]

Wow! Thanks a bunch! That means a lot to me coming from someone like you!

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olivernome In reply to JoelPoischen [2010-04-13 19:08:27 +0000 UTC]

no prob

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JoelPoischen In reply to comic-coloring [2010-04-11 13:52:53 +0000 UTC]

Thanks a lot for the comment!

All inks are never pure black, as far as I know... This is the way ink always looks when its dry. If there are pics here on deviantART with pure black inks, they are usually tampered with in Photoshop (I use levels to create a pure black & white bitmap image with no gray tones)or scanned directly in as a bitmap image. Hope that helps!

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comic-coloring In reply to JoelPoischen [2010-04-11 16:53:14 +0000 UTC]

would it look better when its scaned directly in bitmap or would you loose some details..

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JoelPoischen In reply to comic-coloring [2010-04-11 19:21:23 +0000 UTC]

I don't scan my pictures in directly as bitmap files, mainly because the scanner will then choose what IT wants to turn black and white, and it usually changes any pencil lines (that wouldn't erase away) black instead of white. If I scan my work in as a grayscale file (which I always do), then I can change the pic into a 'bitmap' image manually with Photoshop's levels (I use the eye-dropper level tools to darken the blacks, and eliminate the various gray tones with the white eye-dropper. I keep using the levels until the image contains only pure black and white pixels. I also know that all the gray tones are eliminated when there are no more little bars or dots above the levels slider thingy...)

For this pic, I didn't do all this because I wanted to show how the ink really looks. Jim Lee's great inker, Scott Williams, does this as well 'so we can learn a bit from the inking process', as he says: [link]

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comic-coloring In reply to JoelPoischen [2010-04-11 20:26:52 +0000 UTC]

so you ink direct over your pencils?
wouldnt it be better to make it on a extra sheet of papcer or with a copy which you turn into blue lines to save the original pencil art

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JoelPoischen In reply to comic-coloring [2010-04-12 18:44:34 +0000 UTC]

Yup! Right over the original pencils is the way to go! I don't really like to save my pencil art because everything is usually very sketchy and needs to be cleaned up. I always scan the original pencils, though, just in case something goes wrong during the inking process. Some people do the blue-line thing, though. Maybe I'll try it one day (no more erasing all 'em sketchy pencil lines at the end of the inking process! )

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comic-coloring In reply to JoelPoischen [2010-04-12 22:37:58 +0000 UTC]

when you scan it anyway and have the option to print it out...i think it would be cleaner and you can edit it a better way at the end for the colorist .

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JoelPoischen In reply to comic-coloring [2010-04-13 06:15:05 +0000 UTC]

I'm not sure... Printing it out right away after scanning it will still leave some pencil gray tones... The pic has to be a pure black and white bitmap file for the best results...

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