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Part 2 of my Work In Progress Commission piece with my inks over Carlo Barberi's pencils.

Here you can see left side of the page with more inks. No reason why I choose the left side to do first. Just whatever figure that was behind objects in the foreground. When it comes to figure work, I like to ink characters that are in the foreground, then middle, then work my way to the backgrounds. I find this helps keep things separate during the inking process. In this piece, there are areas drawn with black next to other black. If I were to ink both areas black, it'll all mesh together and the figure work would be lost. So what I've done is separate the two solids with a halo, a white line separating the two black solids. In doing so, sometimes I'll also separate a black with just a single line that's not black. Just to make the flow work better (like Scarlet Spider's right knee).

You can also see when I stopped. Take a look at the right leg of the bad guy on the bottom right corner. The ink was running low on the brush and instead of dipping more ink, I called it a day and will continue later. You can see the ink is a bit grey instead of black.

Another thing to take note is the background under Scarlet Spider's crotch. I used a brush to tapered into the blacks. Once I'm done with all the brush work, I'll later use a quill pen and cross hatch in the rest of the lines. I like the hatch work running smoothly from the white areas into the blacks. Just so there's no blunt black separating the hatch work and blacks. You'll see what I'm talking about when I post the completed inks.

Description
Part 2 of my Work In Progress Commission piece with my inks over Carlo Barberi's pencils.

Here you can see left side of the page with more inks. No reason why I choose the left side to do first. Just whatever figure that was behind objects in the foreground. When it comes to figure work, I like to ink characters that are in the foreground, then middle, then work my way to the backgrounds. I find this helps keep things separate during the inking process. In this piece, there are areas drawn with black next to other black. If I were to ink both areas black, it'll all mesh together and the figure work would be lost. So what I've done is separate the two solids with a halo, a white line separating the two black solids. In doing so, sometimes I'll also separate a black with just a single line that's not black. Just to make the flow work better (like Scarlet Spider's right knee).

You can also see when I stopped. Take a look at the right leg of the bad guy on the bottom right corner. The ink was running low on the brush and instead of dipping more ink, I called it a day and will continue later. You can see the ink is a bit grey instead of black.

Another thing to take note is the background under Scarlet Spider's crotch. I used a brush to tapered into the blacks. Once I'm done with all the brush work, I'll later use a quill pen and cross hatch in the rest of the lines. I like the hatch work running smoothly from the white areas into the blacks. Just so there's no blunt black separating the hatch work and blacks. You'll see what I'm talking about when I post the completed inks.