Senormac Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 This thread is getting better all the time. Thx for sharing all the great stuff everyone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarfa Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 Finished another inking practice piece. This one was a blast to work on! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senormac Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 Here's a piece I did a while back. Not sure my camera phone did it justice. The ink is much darker than the pic shows. Anyway... Just wanted to say Timely, how much I like this piece. It's a complete scene Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senormac Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 Finished another inking practice piece. This one was a blast to work on! Finishing this up soon... Done exclusively with a Winsor & Newton Series 7 #4 round brush What's the greenish tourquoise part in the bottom corner ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarfa Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 It is where I converted the original line art to blueline and printed it to a bristol board. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazzno Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 Finished another inking practice piece. This one was a blast to work on! You did an amazing job. Looks great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kav Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 Your inking skills are top notch Wish i could print bluline-I'd draw SO much stuff....I'd just print out stacks of stuff to ink What size is that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hado Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 Finished another inking practice piece. This one was a blast to work on! Incredible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarfa Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 It's an 11x17 Bristol board. You can pickup some of the "full size" Brother MFC all-in-one printer scanner copiers for fairly cheap. There are videos on YouTube on how to convert line art to blueline in photoshop. It's become a pretty common practice with a lot of professional inkers these days. It saves the original pencils pages and with inkers being able to download high resolution scans of the pencils from the company ftp and print them out, the process of completing the book is much faster. Just about all of the major comicbook companies are doing it like this these days. There are still, however, some seriously evil inkers, like Richard Friend, that still ink directly over David Finch's pencils. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kav Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 Collectors of OA much prefer inks over the orig pencils even though the pencils get erased Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarfa Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 This piece I did because I love the artwork obviously and also to see how I could manage to do some very long sweeping lines without using a french curve or any other tool. It was challenging but lots of fun. And just cemented my love for this particular brush that I'm using right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarfa Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 Collectors of OA much prefer inks over the orig pencils even though the pencils get erased Yeah there have been plenty of discussions about this on many facebook pages. And I would agree for the most part. However imagine the possibility of owning and framing the original pencils, the production inks and a high res printout of the finished colors. Such is possible these days where it wasn't before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senormac Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 Collectors of OA much prefer inks over the orig pencils even though the pencils get erased Yeah there have been plenty of discussions about this on many facebook pages. And I would agree for the most part. However imagine the possibility of owning and framing the original pencils, the production inks and a high res printout of the finished colors. Such is possible these days where it wasn't before. I am completely out of touch with how comics are made these days, but years ago, there were quite a few artists who inked their own pencils. Jack Cole. Carl Barks. Kirby. Steranko.... a whole slew of em. I guess that's a lost art now because of the time it takes eh ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artboy99 Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 Collectors of OA much prefer inks over the orig pencils even though the pencils get erased Yeah there have been plenty of discussions about this on many facebook pages. And I would agree for the most part. However imagine the possibility of owning and framing the original pencils, the production inks and a high res printout of the finished colors. Such is possible these days where it wasn't before. I am completely out of touch with how comics are made these days, but years ago, there were quite a few artists who inked their own pencils. Jack Cole. Carl Barks. Kirby. Steranko.... a whole slew of em. I guess that's a lost art now because of the time it takes eh ? It is also a skill set all it's own. I am a very good penciller, but I am an average inker. I would love to have an inker do the pages for my comic. I would have double the work done easily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarfa Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 (edited) I just started down the road of inking about a year ago or so. Going through various pen sets, exploring crow quills with different nibs and then brush work. I will still using pens (Copic Multiliners) if there is a lot of technical work that needs done. Once in a while I'll feel nostalgic and break out the quill with a Hunt 102 nib, but my personal preference is using brushes. It just has an organic feel and look. My confidence level is not where I want it to be on my inking. While I appreciate any praise I get when I show the work I've done, I have a very hard time looking past the mistakes that glare off the page at me. So I practice as often as possible. Unfortunately lately I haven't been able to work as much as I would like because of medical issues, but I'm trying to get back into things. I've been working on some pages given to me by Kyle Hotz, who has been great on feedback, as well as his inker, Jason Moore. I would love to leave behind the world of IT and just do artwork, but I don't see that happening anytime soon. This is one of the pages Kyle gave me. I started it months ago but had to put it down for a while. I'll be finishing it today. Edited November 23, 2014 by Sarfa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarfa Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 Finally got to finish this page. Artwork by Kyle Hotz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oakman29 Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 Finally got to finish this page. Artwork by Kyle Hotz If I sent you something that I've done,how much would you charge me to ink it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 Nice inking work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senormac Posted December 9, 2014 Share Posted December 9, 2014 I've passed the halfway point inking the pencils for Spike Mulligan #5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oakman29 Posted December 9, 2014 Share Posted December 9, 2014 I've passed the halfway point inking the pencils for Spike Mulligan #5 I can't wait. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
