Sunday, December 12, 2010

Inking in Illustrator

I'm still practicing my digital inking. I tried inking in Flash, then I tried inking in Illustrator with a Calligraphic Brush. Here are my latest experiments -- still inking in Illustrator, but this time using a set of Art Brushes that I made myself.



I get more accuracy this way. I mean, I can really get the ink line to sit RIGHT ON the pencil line, if I want. But I think it has a little less life than the previous two methods I tried. It lacks a certain spontaneity and humanity. Next I'll try inking in Manga Studio.

1 comment:

ratigan said...

You might have already come across this, but:

http://brian-romero.blogspot.com/2007/02/digital-inking-basics.html

He seems to get a good ink job done in Illustrator.