Inking for Comic Books: Traditional and Digital Techniques

Overview

“Now we will have a practical look at a diverse number of inking instruments: brushes, pens, inks, watercolours, and the computer.”

In this video lesson Sam Hart addresses the topic: Materials, which is part of the Domestika online course: Inking for Comic Books: Traditional and Digital Techniques. Bring parallel universes to life by learning to combine different inking techniques for comic book illustration.

Partial transcription of the video

“ Materials In this course, we'll study the three kinds of inking done in comic books at this moment. Traditional inking is done with Indian ink, brushes, dip or technical pens straight over the original pencil lines or on a different piece of paper using a light box or a blue line print. The second kind of inking is watercolours or ink gouaches. It is seen more nowadays that printing is more advanced than 50 or 60 years ago. Digital inking is done on a computer using software such as Photoshop, Procreate, or Clip Studio Paint. Let's have a look at the materials we'll be using for each tech...”

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Course summary for: Inking for Comic Books: Traditional and Digital Techniques

• Level: Beginner
• 98% positive reviews (59)
• 2701 students
• 4 units
• 14 lessons (1h 56m)
• 9 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Comic, Drawing, Ink Illustration, Narrative, Watercolor Painting