| Deviant Login | Shop | Join deviantART for FREE  |
Take the Tour  |
| Digital Art / Drawings / Other | ©2008-2013 ~Dub-T |
The Journal Portal
Browse Journals |
Polls |
deviantART [dee·vee·un'nt·ART]
Keep in Touch!
|
Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
|
Sta.sh
Inking is always tough to do.
I wish I had learned how all these years.
Thanks for looking and it looks pretty good to me. Inkers really get the short end of the stick...it's something pretty difficult to master.
Hope your doing better too.
As for how I ink. When it's a digital piece (like this one) I keep it digital. Open it in Painter and adjust it so that it measures at least 10 inches wide. I like to work big. I also work at a minimum resolution of 300 DPI. I then copy the original pencil layer to another layer and clear the canvas layer so I have a blank background. Then I create a new layer to do the inks on. Sometimes several. I do this in Painter and Photoshop.
At this point I start playing around with different brushes in both programs until I find a brush that looks good for the style of pencils I'm working with. On the Man-Thing piece [link] I used Painter's "Croquil Pen" set at between 3 and 15 depending on the area I was working on. For the Thing piece [link] I used an "Opaque Acrylic" brush set between 5 and 20.
Both of those pieces were inked in Painter 8.
For this piece I used the same acrylic brush as the Thing piece set between 3 and 15.
As for which I method I prefer. I like both digital and traditional but digital doesn't make me as crazy when if I screw up because I don't have to mix up a batch of white ink.
I tend to prefer digital inking as of late. Because I can play around and experiment with different line weights and techniques without having to worry about messing up the pencils.