Inking for Comic Books: Traditional and Digital Techniques

Overview

“Here we’ll continue working on the page, finishing the details, and looking for areas of contrast, smaller shadows, volume, and texture on the page.”

In this video lesson Sam Hart addresses the topic: Inking: Contrast, Volume, and Texture, 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

“ Inking: Contrast, Volume, and Texture Let's continue our page with our traditional inks. I've worked on the main characters, lines, and outlines in the first two panels. Now, in the last panel, I have reserved some areas for solid black ink or maybe a textured shadow. The Xs on the panel represent areas of solid black. It's a graphic code from the penciler to the inker so that they don't have to spend time pencilling an area that will be covered in solid black ink. If it was a night-time scene, I would've put the Xs and BWS, which means Black with Stars, and that means that apart from cov...”

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

• Level: Beginner
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• 2698 students
• 4 units
• 14 lessons (1h 56m)
• 9 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Comic, Drawing, Ink Illustration, Narrative, Watercolor Painting