General Inking Discussion

[HdE]

Cool beans! More info on Manga Studio!

I still haven't got 'round to buying this software yet - to be honest, I wouldn't intend to use it for inks, butit's greatto get some further info on it. It's surprising how hard it is to find detailed commentary on it on the net.

[pauljholden]

I finally caved and upgraded my 3.0 EX to 4.0 EX - expect an update when it comes in the post... (not that I ever really used 3.0, but the demo version of 4.0 looks nice and I'm tempted to do some pencilling in manga studio...)

-pj

[HdE]

...and I just took the plunge and ordered the Debut edition from Amazon.

I was unsure if it was the right thing to do. But seeing as the next thing I saw online was an email inviting me to contribute to a convention comic, my doubts were quickly forgotten.

I'm taking it as a sign!

[HdE]

..And now I have it!

Spent about an hour fiddling with it this evening. I have NO idea what I'm doing with it. No instruction manual in the box (ya gotta love that. :-/ ) and the soddin' download keeps failing on me halfway through.

Oh well, goes to show that signs are often over-rated.

I still have high hopes for the program, though.

[Rio De Fideldo]

Quick question re inking.

If I want to pratice using actual pen and ink using the pencils of a pro how to I go about this?

Can you get the pencils copies onto Bristol Board?

[Jim_Campbell]

Can you get the pencils copies onto Bristol Board?

I think a copy shop should be able to make blueline copies for you, and a good one should be able to put them onto paper of your choice. This is likely to get expensive quite quickly, though, so you might want to look at an A3 colour printer -- if it doesn't bend the paper too much, you should be fine to feed Bristol Board through it...

Cheers!

Jim

[Dave Hedmark]

Another rout to take is print off the pencils and use a light table to transfer by hand the pencils onto the Bristol board.

[Rio De Fideldo]

Brill cheers for advice

[chilipenguin]

Can anyone suggest a decent resource for high res pencils (for practice)?

[chilipenguin]

Anyone have any decent tutorials for learning to ink? Particularly using Manga Studio? I'm finding it pretty tough going at the moment.

[chilipenguin]

My first ever (traditional or digital) attempt at inking, done with Dredd pencils I found on DA. My hand hurts.

Apologies for the crappy quality. I'm using the demo version of manga studio so had to crop a screengrab. My linework is a little shaky but I guess that'll get better with time.

[chilipenguin]

After monkeying around in Manga Studio for a good 8 or 9 hours, this is the result of my first full splash page. Let me know what you guys think, please!

[Mardroid]

Sexy!

Only thing I'd say is the girl on the top right's forearm looks a bit butch and masculine. I know there's a bit of foreshortening going on but the part of the arm from near and including the elbow should be thinner in my opinion. I think her head might be proportionately a little too large too, but as it's not an entirely realistic style, that might be intentional.  The girl at the bottom is more in proportion though. (Maybe this is an optical illusion on my part.)

I'm not an artist (yet) though so take my opinion with a pinch of salt.

It's lovely though.

[chilipenguin]

Cheers for that. I should have said before, the original pencils come from Sean Ellery's website.

I thought the girl on the bottom right was the weakest, to be honest. I couldn't get her lips right, so she looks like she's had one too many collagen treatments.

So far I'm really enjoying this inking malarky, just need to work on my speed.

[chilipenguin]

Sorry for the double post, but Photobucket seems to have taken exception to the original file, so I've rehosted it at Imageshack.