2016
Lynda
Ben Bishop
1:10
English

Want to create your own comic books? Inking is a crucial part of the process. It's one of the final steps, where lines are traced more intentionally and artists focus on dynamic lighting and shadows. These days, pencil drawings aren't always necessarily "inked" but sometimes digitally scanned and refined, resulting in the finished inked look typical of most comics. In this course, comic creator Ben Bishop shows two methods for finishing comics in Photoshop, using examples from his graphic novel, The Aggregate.Method 1 is the traditional approach. After carefully selecting his brushes in Photoshop, Ben begins the digital inking process. He carefully retraces his lines, adding line weight, halos, highlights, and shadows and texture. He even adds blur effects that give his comics a cinematic quality while also using positive and negative space to set the mood of the scene and create a compositionally pleasing page.
Method 2 shows us how to turn finished pencil artwork into clean, seemingly inked artwork, ready for color and ready for print—without any additional drawing.

Introduction
2m 7s
Welcome
1m 19s
About this course
48s
1. Getting Started
1m 16s
What is digital inking?
1m 16s
2. Prepping Your Document for Digital Inking
9m 42s
Creating a page template
5m 38s
Sizing artwork and arranging layers
4m 4s
3. Tools of the Trade
8m 5s
A look at Photoshop brushes
3m 10s
Choosing the right brush
4m 55s
4. Digital Inking
37m 6s
Initial linework
7m 54s
Line weight
6m 50s
Positive and negative space
7m 47s
Halos and highlights
6m 12s
The blur effect
8m 23s
5. Also Known As Digital Inking
11m 27s
Inking on top of a pencil rough
11m 27s
Conclusion
34s
Next steps
34s

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