Inking for Comic Books: Traditional and Digital Techniques

Overview

“Now I’ll describe the best way to pass on your work to the next people in the production line, that is, the colourist or editor.”

In this video lesson Sam Hart addresses the topic: Sending Files, 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

“ Sending Files The last step as inker will be to prepare and send the pages to the colourist or editor. Comic book pages used to be lettered after the pencil on the page but before the inks. Nowadays, the letters are done under digital equivalent, a layer in Illustrator or another software. The artwork, inks, colours, and letters are assembled from separate files and digital files before being sent to the printers. These files should have the same size and resolution to fit together. For the artist, some steps before sending off the artwork include cleaning up your art. Once your art is sc...”

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

• Level: Beginner
• 98% positive reviews (59)
• 2695 students
• 4 units
• 14 lessons (1h 56m)
• 9 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Comic, Drawing, Ink Illustration, Narrative, Watercolor Painting