Inking for Comic Books: Traditional and Digital Techniques

Top Tips

A course by Sam Hart , Comic Book and Storyboard Artist

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2,701 students

Audio: English

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About the video: Top Tips

Overview

“In this lesson, I want to show you some handy production tips to remember as you put pen to paper and stylus to tablet.”

In this video lesson Sam Hart addresses the topic: Top Tips, 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

“ Top Tips Here are a few practical tips for your inking. The first top tip is the blue line filter in Photoshop. How to turn your pencil artwork into blue line pencils? Go to Image, Adjustments, Levels, and let's clean up the page slightly by brightening our page just enough that the paper is completely white, but the pencil artwork is still clearly seen. I'll slightly darken the darkest areas, lighten the page, and click OK. If you scan the image in greyscale, go to Image, Mode, RGB, and now Image, Adjustments, Hue/Saturation. Turn on Colorize and load the following settings. 180 in Hue, ...”

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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

Sam Hart

A course by Sam Hart

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Comic Book and Storyboard Artist

Sam Hart is an Anglo-Brazilian comic book artist based in São Paulo. He fell in love with comic books at a young age and has been reading, drawing, and writing them ever since. He has drawn stories featuring characters such as Robin Hood and The Power Rangers and had one of the graphics novels he illustrated adapted into a film starring Oscar-winning actress Charlize Theron.

Aside from creating comic books of his own, Sam regularly teaches illustration and comic book art and is passionate about helping others create their own realities through visual narratives.