How to ink 2.0 Group Runthrough Week 2

ArtofAleksey

@Braden-Hallett nice and smooth!

braden H

@Aleksey Slow and steady makes nice smooth lines

Erin.Cortese

Well, you win some, you lose some. My line work was horrendous in these exercises. I am a little sleep deprived and I am hoping that has something to do with it, otherwise I'm really bad with a brush pen ...which is okay too I suppose.

braden H

@Erin-Cortese said in How to ink 2.0 Group Runthrough Week 2:

I'm really bad with a brush pen

It always seems that way until suddenly you're actually pretty good with a brush pen

It blew my mind that thicker outlines on closer/more prominent objects makes them pop. Yours look pretty good

braden H

@Erin-Cortese Also, when it comes to a physical brush pen you're miles ahead of me

ArtofAleksey

@Braden-Hallett really? It usually ruins mine

chrisaakins

Ohhh, THAT inventor girl. Well, next time I guess. Welp here is the bunny girl...aaaannnd...What the heck! I can ink (a little bit)! This is so much better control than I had last Inktober. It sorta actually looks like a comic artist inked it. Not that it is perfect, but I am thrilled with the progress.
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Does anyone else notice that when you have work in person you think, "it looks so great!", but then when you put it on the forums you can see every last dang flaw? Maybe the orange helps it out in person.

Erin.Cortese

@Braden-Hallett Thanks for the encouragement, I’m going to try and stick with it. I thought the effects of different line widths was pretty neat too, even the way it can imply lighting.

MikeCañas

This exercise was a lot of fun and helped me learn quite a bit! Looking forward to week 3!

burvantill

I inked in between chores and back to school night classes today. It was not very productive or helpful because I had to keep stopping. I will not be doing THAT again. Lol.
The little girl is from last weeks practice. I forgot to post it. A page from a Precious Moments color book.

xin li

For todat's practice, I did inking of a character from Sasek's illustration. Struggling keeping the line consistant in weights, also lots of decision making process on when to use which line weight. It is harder than it looks.
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demotlj

I was watching the video on Contour - Light, in which Jake drew three circles to show how line thickness can show the direction of light. As an aside, he said something like, "You can have line that doesn't vary if you don't want the line to be a dominant feature of the painting." This raises the question I've had. While hatching etc. can go along with pretty traditional looking illustrations, when I vary the thickness of the contour line, it starts to look more like comic book or cartoon illustrations. Am I just varying it too much or do you all think that some illustration styles should avoid fiddling with contour line style?

MikeCañas

@demotlj
I think it depends, ultimately, on what you are going for. Maybe if the overall thickness of the line was minimal then it wouldn't be as noticeable. I think Jake mentions varying the thickness to go along with the way you are planning to light your illustration, which might minimize it even more.

chrisaakins

Haven't quite gotten to the girl. I remember when watching the inking 2.0 videos that @Jake-Parker said he didn't ink exactly as he penciled especially on small details such as the "innards". I took that to heart with this one. I am getting old and I couldn't see all the little parts even with my reading glasses so I took liberties. Enjoy.

Also, you really learn a lot about how you can improve in your own drawings when you copy a master's work. I wish all the great comic artists would send me penciled in work for me to ink. It would be so fun.
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chrisaakins

@burvantill Going for a little Starry Night, I see. I love it. I am having my kids do Zentangles in my High School classes right now and I think Van Gogh would have loved creating those.

chrisaakins

@MikeCañas good work! Looks like a pro job to me! I like how you increased the weight of the lines on the bottom even more than the drawing. I felt like I should have done the same but I was trying to stay true to the original. After seeing yours, I should have trusted my instincts. It is my practice sheet, right?

braden H

@xin-li said in How to ink 2.0 Group Runthrough Week 2:

also lots of decision making process on when to use which line weight

I know what you mean! Up til now I've been focussing only on light and not thinking about proximity, weight, material, etc. It seems like there's a long list of rules and a longer list of when to break them

braden H

@demotlj said in How to ink 2.0 Group Runthrough Week 2:

Am I just varying it too much or do you all think that some illustration styles should avoid fiddling with contour line style

Ligne Claire tends to not vary line weight at all

burvantill

@chrisaakins LOL! That's funny! that was completely unintentional. I had the paper folded so it would fit in my sketchbook and was just doing what i could in between bell rings.

burvantill

Today’s practice. Used a sharpie today. My Pentel brush pens are supposed to be in the mail tomorrow. I thought they were coming last week but it was just auto parts for my husband.