THE INTRICACIES OF INKING, or, HOW A HACK KNOCKS OUT PAGES

[jaymarcy]

Anyone who knows me knows that inking comic pages is laborious work I try to evade like the plague. For some people inking is their favorite part of comics making (for me, it's a toss up between scripting and successfully penciling out pages), the way to cross the "t"'s and dot the "i''s of their work. For me though it's always been a painfully

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[johncomic]

Ron is a smart guy. Having said that, I continue to ignore his advice about inking pages in order. I always have: pencil the page, ink the page, pencil the next page, etc. I gotta do it that way. In part cuz sometimes I will hit upon some nifty new detail in the inks and I want the pages that follow to be consistent with it. So yeah, I have my up pages and my down pages, but I can live with that... and amen to the part about not overcrowding your panels, which latter-day Toth would also agree with.

And you can handle a brush pen?! Man, my hat is off to you! I never could get the hang of those things! I still use a nib, with markers reserved for fine details and touch-ups.

[ericfmyers]

I love inking! My whole workstation is set up primarily for inking (I should share some pictures). Even my paintings are just layers of Bombay color inks. I think my penciling is suffers because I want to jump ahead. I've always gone in page order, but it makes sense to jump around.