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Inking Tutorial
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Published: 2015-07-17 06:59:14 +0000 UTC; Views: 251368; Favourites: 15706; Downloads: 3371
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Finally finished it \(TwT ) it may take a while to load!!
Hereβs 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!
πSupport 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:Β
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/ Β 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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Comments: 498
This is awesome! Thank you for making this tutorial!!
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Thank you so much for this! It was extremely helpful!
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Thanks for sharing Piccolo. Really nice tut. Diying to see the one about shading.
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wow i don't draw but i learn so much with this tyΒ
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Thanks, this is very helpful~!
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OMG ! THANK YOU ! SUPER HELPFUL
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Thank you so much! I usually ink my drawings with a regular Bic pen, and they look awesome at last. You can make the lines smooth and thin or thick and shaky in a really easy way, so it makes that job way easier (I work using the tips you posted in the tutorial almost authomatically). But when it comes to digital inking I'm a total noob xD This has helped me a lot, thank you!
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OMG thank you so much. All this time I've been using the default paintbrush for my linework, but i never got the nice solid lines that i wanted.
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Thank you. This is a wonderful tutorial! :3
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Althoug I know the rules, it is a nice reminder. Nicely done!
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Thanks a lot for putting this together! It summarizes most of the inking stuff I've seen in past very well.
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This is super helpful thank you for making it!
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Thank you so much for this!! :^)
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This looks like it'll help a lot! Thank you
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Thank u so much! This will help me so much
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This is wonderfully informative thank you so much!
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This tutorial is SO dense with useful information and is really comprehensive. Thank you for you sharing all this advice!
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this is helpful and informative ;D i do take photos of my work too since my scanner broke D: i'll use those tips next time as well as the line weight and division when inking :3
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www.earthporm.com/meet-zeus-reβ¦
The link's title might be a tad misleading but that's definitly the starry eyed owl for you.
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It's great to see an awesome artist's process, personally I see a whole bunch of room for improvement in my own drawings and this tutorial helps me tremendously, thank you so much for doing this!
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This is incredibly useful. Thank you so much for sharing this.
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I've always been too scared to ink my art, but this tutorial really gave me a lot of confidence! ^-^ thank you so much for the tutorial, its amazing !
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I hope this isn't plagiarism, but you don't mind if I use this type of technique on my artwork? Β
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This is amazing! Really helpful. Thanks!! Love your ink works.
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Awesome tutorial, thanks for sharing it!
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I just can say thank you for take your time and share all your knowledge
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Very good tutorial. First of all, I learnt that "inking" meant drawing in pen over the pencil lines (I thought you were talking about colouring / filling).Β
I'll try to remember your tips for traditional. I always find my inked drawings lifeless compared to my pencil sketches, I struggle to show movement (even with still characters they need to look like they can move). I have learnt that it is better to move with a smooth motion than to slowly sketch it across. I draw far too heavy-handed, so this can be tricky, and I try not to get too hung up on mistakes. I've been accused of not holding a pen properly by my art teacher (10yrs ago), apparently I had to have a special pencil early on in school to train my cack-handedness (which I do not recall at all), but apparently that has not made much difference. I've tried holding it the "right" way, I just can't seem to do it.
I can give you some hints for scanning. I usually scan at 600 dpi - this gives a nice detail without taking too long to scan (I tried 1200 dpi, it ends up crashing!), in a PNG file (this makes it a horrendous size, so I often reduce the size of the image to Document). JPEG is fine for simpler things / straight to Internet. Scans do not always pick up subtler colours, they might show heavy pencil lines as heavier than they are, and I often have to reduce brightness/lightness due to the white parts of the paper gleaming back, and up the contrast to bring out the blacks.
For digital filling, scanning at JPEG pulls up too much data/different coloured pixels, so filling will be a pain. I often scan to BMP black and white (black is then black and white is then white obviously), and then fill in either Paint or GIMP. Thicker lines are picked up better, thinner lines may look more pixellated. Harder pencil lines may be picked up, so sometimes I fill the black lines I want in green, fill the white with black, then fill them back to the original colours, to remove any unwanted dots/pixels and have a cleaner picture.
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Thank you SOO much for this picolo-kun!! It is so very helpful!
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Detailed, yet simple, and very easy to understand.
It's so helpful! Thanks a lot!
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Thank you for the wonderful help
Hopefully I would be inking mine to give more pizzazz just because of this marvelous tutorial
Finally (;-; ) <--tears of joy
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I think I may have to give ink another try...
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Amaaaaaaazing 
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