Inking for Comic Books: Traditional and Digital Techniques

Overview

“In this lesson, I will be showing you the digital instruments, how they imitate traditional ink, and how they can help speed up your process.”

In this video lesson Sam Hart addresses the topic: Digital Inks: speed, 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

“ Digital Inks: Speed Now, for the final inking technique, digital, another character from the Joan of Arc graphic novel, the Dauphin. I've scanned in the drawing and we'll work in Photoshop. Let's have a look at the process. To begin with digital inks, we'll scan in the pencil page at a high resolution, 600 DPI, in black and white greyscale. I don't recommend taking a photo from your mobile phone as it will have interference from outside light sources. Some areas of your artwork will be blurred and lines will not be as sharp as a flatbed scan. We can work at 400 or even 300 DPI as print ou...”

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

• Level: Beginner
• 98% positive reviews (59)
• 2835 students
• 4 units
• 14 lessons (1h 56m)
• 9 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Comic, Drawing, Ink Illustration, Narrative, Watercolor Painting