Inking for Comic Books: Traditional and Digital Techniques

Overview

“In this lesson, I’m going to tell you what is on the page and narrative or stylistic choices you can make when you are inking.”

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

“ Narrative Inks Here's my pencil page for the final project. I've scanned it in and applied it to this blue line template. The blue line template has project information at the top. It is exactly the right size for American comic books and it has the safe areas marked out in dotted lines. Once it's scanned in and applied to the template, it looks like this. The pencil pages and the blue line template are available in the attached documents of this unit. Before setting down the inks, let's have a look at the page and see what kind of choices we'll be making, either stylistic or narrative. I...”

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

• Level: Beginner
• 98% positive reviews (59)
• 2698 students
• 4 units
• 14 lessons (1h 56m)
• 9 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Comic, Drawing, Ink Illustration, Narrative, Watercolor Painting