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PEN INKING TUTORIAL
Published: 2008-05-03 22:06:52 +0000 UTC; Views: 58729; Favourites: 1354; Downloads: 2303
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In this quick tutorial I show how I ink and go about using a Sakura Micron Pigma Pen. Score them at your local art shops.Related content
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great tutorial, but i wanted to see you use the french curve :/
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It's essentially a ruler that curves, LOL nothing really to see
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Ooo...great tutorial! Some things are much better learned shown, I always say ^_^;;;;
((Faved))
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Ok.
Seriously.
This was painful to watch.
2:30m into it, and all you've actually said was "this is a french curve" and pointed out the few thicknesses of pens you have handy.
That should not take 2 and a half minutes to do. I really could have done without the HAW HAW WEE WEE and rambling.
Get to the point, dude. I'm not saying you have to be all bland and boring inking "happy trees"... I'm just saying, shit, give some relevant information more often. Get to it.
You need to be as confident on camera as you claim to be with your ink strokes.
If I'm going to be watching a tutorial or technical guide, all I care about is the info. If I want to hear someone rant or make jokes, I'll look up a blog or a stand up act.
Just some advice.
You have great skill, so it's good to see people with skill providing tutorials for the beginners and amateurish folks to get their bearings with... but man :/ get to it.
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AAAAAHAHAHAH, you're Funny ^-^
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I like useful Tutorials and this one's nice
great to hear how other people draw things, I can learn good tricks like this
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you have NO IDEA how much this tutorial helps! im still practicing on inking and this will be just the thing the help me with details. you freaking rule!
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These tips are really helpful and now I know what the name of the pens are. Thanks a lot
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This is so helpful. I need to get some micron pens. Right now all I have are writing pens, so it's kind-of hard.
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Love the tutorial and thanks for stressing the need for inkers to be able to draw. It's not incredibly necessary helps a ton. Reminds me a little about the running joke in chasing Amy about inkers=tracers. It was funny, but sadly true in how some folks view it.
Really glad to hear I'm not the only one who nearly puts their nose to the paper. I'm always told to step back, don't get sucked up in the little details. But it's fun! ><;
And I really hope you do a tutorial on brushwork. Kudos and congratulations on the daily deviation.
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say mr. steve these tutorials are really helpful. especially since i startd inkin pretty much all my stuff.
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Good video but OMG you sound like a 9 years old kid!
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I heard I sounded like a fetus once
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LOL! Something like that. Awesome videos by the way, learned a lot. I'm stalking you Sanchez
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lawlz, i thought you sounded cute...
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I don't know hwat 9 year old kids you talk to but goddamn they hit puberty early. Nice vid btw.
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You hold your pen differently
Sorry don't know how that was relevant, I just noticed it
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Do a youtube search on J Scott Campbell and One on Erik Larsen Then let me know if I hold it differently
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Awesome.. i really loved it! I gotta get into inking again (but as a noob-artist, I don't do it very often...)
Btw on the off-topic side, you sound sort-of like Ross from Friends lol
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LOL, ROSS - Ah man, that's a new one. Odd thing is I sound different over the phone too and different in person. My voice has like a cloaking ability that I don't know of
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lol.
i tried inking some stuff, just now.. and thanks to you it turned out much greater than usually 
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Huh, cool; I didn't know what a French curve was!
Now I do
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Wow! This really helps! I've been doing the slow and boring inking way with the same width lines all this time! Now I know how to use my microns for a better effect!
Thank you very much
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Tanks for your tutorial, it's really good (And actually I also really love you're voice XD)
I'm french and I've never heard of such French Curves ! ^^ First time I see that ! Strange isn't it ?
[Sorry if my english is bad ^^ It's not my mother tong so escuse me !]
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Oh *your voice ... ^^' Sorry
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When you were talking about the "ink fading off a bit" or something, "during the earsing", you didn't seem to know this:
The quality of the eraser and the paper are the important things, when it comes to inking with ink pens, instead of calligraphy pens.
Calligraphy pens "put the ink in the paper", while the ink pens simply leave the ink on top of the paper. This is where the quality of the paper and the weight of it matter.
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To tell ya the truth, I've used the highest brand of Strathmore paper and still the ink from the Micron Pigma has been lifted off. I use light soft strokes when erasing with a kneaded eraser, it does help. Now you can use different pens, that's fine, I find that india ink works best and is what's recommended but to each is own ya know
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A thing I found recently, you might find interest in, is an eraser pillow. I don't know what it's actually called but it's a little cloth pillow filled with gummy eraser powder. I've found it to be hugely helpful with this problem if you have lighter pencil lines. It doesn't erase well and you may still need the gummy if you put down heavy pencil lines, but it doesn't pick up your micron ink. I got mine up at pat catans for around 3 dollars and found it in the drafting/architecture section.
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Hmm. I'll look into that, Thanks
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this was awsome, I could understand most of what's said, but sometimes you speak to fast xD well, I think I need more practice, hahha, amazing tutorial, thanks for sharing!
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When you did the slow one I just fell out of my chair and started laughing. I was like "Oh shit that's me he's talking about"
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Same xDD I was like '...aahhhh so that's where I've been goin' wrong...' *fails*
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xD Well then I'm glad I wasn't the only one!
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thanks, i think i'm gonna go out and get some pens of my own now.
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Wow! This is awesome! Making it into a movie really helps with seeing exactly how to do the strokes. Thanks for a lot for making this!
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I love when people can give great tips like this!!
And it's so much easier to understand something when someone is explaining to you with actions instead of just words (paper tutorial)
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Seeing how easily you do this soft, sharp inking seriously inspires to do such on one's own : ) That's a great tip, dude.
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This was very helpful, thank you! And congrats on the DD!
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LOL I talk french and I laugh soo hard
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Hey man. As always, great tut. I've still been practicing my sketching, so I've held off on watching this inking one until I had something to ink. Really helpful as always.
One of the big things that's finally clicking for me in watching your videos is simplicity. You gotta draw what you see, not what you think you see, not even your impression of what you think you see.
Anyway, you have a really simple way of presenting things that's really helping stuff click for me! Thanks!
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Simplicity is what makes it all FUN, it's like getting a new piece of machinery or video game. Do you wanna read the rules first, of dive in and have fun 
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something ive always wondered is, how do you know where you put the weight in the lines?
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