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Published: 2015-07-17 06:59:14 +0000 UTC; Views: 251286; Favourites: 15706; Downloads: 3371
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Finally finished it \(TwT ) it may take a while to load!!
Here’s my first tutorial! Made possible thanks to my patrons, hope it may be helpful
If there's any questions regarding the process or if something wasn't clear let me know!
🌟Support me on Patreon so I can create more tutorials for you
EDIT 10/02/15: If you're doing inktober I strongly recommend you to take a look at this tutorial! I've been getting a ton of questions that can be answered here c:
EDIT 10/05/2015: Fehnryr suggested an amazing site for editing your traditional art pics if you want an alternative from photoshop & softwares. Use www.ribbet.com/ to raise contrasts, make colors pop and make your pics as great as the real life drawings! Thank you Fehryr for the suggestion!!
EDIT 10/04/2016: It's that time of the year again! how are your inktobers going?
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Super! I love inking, so this will be a big help!
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this is amazing! Thanks for posting it
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Thank you for the tips! This really does help a lot of people!!
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This is amazing, thank you! I'm actually excited about this, now. :3
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Thank you so much for this tutorial! It's nice look more ink techniques.
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This was Great!! So helpful!!
I'm relatively new to the inking department, so I'll take all the advice I can get or be given! Thanks!
I better hold on to this one ...
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I´ve just started for the first time ever the Inktober challenge, and boy I am so glad I just saw this. Thank you very much for your tips and help, I´ll do my best and strive with my drawing skills, and this will help me
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THANK YOU!
It's been only a few days since inktober started, and this is helful!
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Well thank ya for the the little tips, definitely try some out
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In art we are doing a project where we have to create an image entirely by using ink pen, so this is so helpful!^^ Thank you so much!
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Thank you very much! Lovely artwork, as well!
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beautiful artwork and thank you for the steps you've given to us, it will help a lot. you rock!!
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hmm.. now I may have to join the whole inktober thing
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Mine are going great so far and yours looks amazing and it makes me want to do inktober next year in the style of tarot cards!!
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Ooh, just in time for inktober too ;u;
Thank you for making this!
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This tutorial is very helpful! Thanks for making this!
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Thanks a lot men ! Glad to see some help for traditional too, thanks a lot for the work put in all this tutorial, I didn't expect to have some help with background, perspective and view effects !
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WHY DID NO ONE EVER TELL ME THERE WAS A STABALIZER BUTTON? THANK YOU VERY MUCH, PICOLO-KUN!
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Thank you so much for this! I've started drawing recently (going really well so far), I've only been doing sketches since I don't know how to line. But now thanks to you I can start, going to go and try this out today on my old drawings.
Thanks again, I love you.
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okay- wow. Thank you so much! I never knew there was a pen pressure thingy on Photoshop.
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Lol, I literally just went through your gallery 10 mins before you updated this for tips/tricks during Inktober. It's going well for me up to now, I'm trying to learn as much as I can with the only single inkpen I have on hand ;_; Hope you're having fun with your Inktober too!
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Awesome tips! Thank you for sharing
It makes so much more sense now why inking pens are often bundled with different sizes in a pack. Your Totoro example really showed the importance in varying line thicknesses.
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How did I not know about this?? Thank you so much Picolo, I am armed to tackle Inktober! *salutes*
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Thank you! I've been wanting to start inking my stuff!
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thanks for this tutorial, I need needed it because i just realized i my hands get shaky when i don't point pressure on my lines. I hope to see more tutorials from you. keep up the good work
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Thank you for making this tutorial, I've read it several times but I have got to be the worst drawer/ inker ever.
My 2 main problems is I can never make my lines look "professional" / finished and my line weight is always terrible. I hear people say go fast, and go slow. I've tried every variation of speed and my lines still look like garbage. I've drawn with using my elbow and still no dice in line quality. And I have no clue on how you would even begin on making textures in inking.
When I try to make my lines look clean it just looks like a coloring book and when I go for a more complex look, the picture just looks confusing. Shakey lines are my bane and I've tried all those exersizes for months and still no improvement.
My photohsop lines are the worst. Not only shakey, the brushes lines never look right. The lines either too pointy, shakey, no variation and down right unappealing. Even when I put a correct stroke, it never looks as good as everyone elses lines, its hard to explain but very easy to notice their bad. I've never seen anyone else share this problem.
I understand your busy but I'd really appreciate any help on inking. I've tried everything and I've been doing this for years and I'm not seeing much if not any improvement.
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Hi there!
I don't know if this is a good advice or if I'm good enough to give any tips (my lines aren't usually very good), but I've found it easier to make lively lines by using a lettering pen (one that is thicker the other way, like this: static2.jetpens.com/images/a/0… ). It automatically adds that contrast between line thickness, even if maybe not in the exactly right places. That's why it's probably not good for too detailed or small things. I've used it here: peilinsirpale.deviantart.com/a…
It's a cheat way to do it, but still might make something look a lot better than it would look like with even lines
But of course, the thing I've found the most important (=most helpful) is to not stress too much about the outcome. It surely won't look exactly like I imagined, but whatever! It will still look good enough if I just do my best (and if it doesn't, whatever. I wasn't just ready for that yet.).
And also doing a small "practice" thing before the real thing to train your hand to the movement might help. For example, I lined a weird clumsy hand before that headshot. That hand is definitely not good enough to show, but it helped to get into the flow of drawing
I hope my thoughts will be of some help
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Thank you so much for the advice! Although I don't have the same pen I do have many other pens that have a similar tip.
A piece of advice I recently came across that helped me out was to take lineart that you really liked and trace some of the lines, but not the whole image. Keep trying until your line is almost exactly like the original, and don't go out to get a pretty picture.The point is to try to get your hand have the feel for how fast, what pressure, etc the pen should go to get a professional looking line and get that into your muscle memory. Its helped me out some and thought you might find it useful as well.
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That advice is great! Thanks for sharing it ^^ I've tried it to learn to sketch more lightly, and I think I've already learned some.
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Thanks for the tutorial. It's will be helpful.
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Thanks for this nice tutorial, Picolo-kun, and congrats on uploading you're very first tutorial.
I'm an artist/aspiring writer looking for a tutorial for colored ink drawing and this is what I lit upon. So glad I did.
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Thank you >___< Inking is always the part where I screw up (if I haven't already screwed up earlier)... it kills my drawings every time T_T Hopefully not after this though!
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Haaa, I have a problem in line art for the longest time. The shakey hands of mine are the worst.
Thanks for the tutorial!
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Thank you! I've been having problems with shaky hands, especially with curves. I'll try out what you said and I'm going to change the setting for Manga Studio to match yours. Hopefully it'll make a difference
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Thanks. I really needed the digital tips. Can't wait to reset my brush in photoshop according to your suggestion, since the line quality is baaaaad!
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Hey, do you happen to have this posted to Tumblr by any chance (if you have a Tumblr)?
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