How to ink 2.0 Group Runthrough Week 2

[BichonBistro]

@Geoffrey-Anderson I am working on areas of most fine-motor difficulty drawing, using this inking course as a guide for daily practice. For me, the goals are to work toward consistent spacing, drawing anything that involves pressure without line “tremors”, trying to identify the sweet spot where things don’t completely break down but are just difficult enough to challenge moving forward.

[BichonBistro]

@xin-li great idea, love seeing how you translate these to ink!

[BichonBistro]

@Braden-Hallett easy for you to say

[BichonBistro]

@Erin-Cortese looks good to me! Varying line weight intentionally is not easy!

[BichonBistro]

Daily accountability, experimenting with which pen works best for intentional variation in line size: haven’t found one yet

[xin li]

@Geoffrey-Anderson I did both solo lines and group lines practice (very similar to stuff Jake showed in the inking video) for the week one, and now I am focus on taking some of these practices into inking an actual drawing. To make it simpler for myself, I do not come up with a new drawing everyday, just take one of my favorite characters done by other artists (in any medium), trace it, and start inking.

[braden H]

I'm trying to find a couple of inking gears beyond thickest and thinnest. Right now I have a car with gears 1 and 5. I need gears 2, 3 and 4 as well.

Also, really focussing on contour lines is really helping me to remember how basic shapes are suppose to be interacting with each other.

[burvantill]

@Braden-Hallett we do for sure! Our cars are slowly dying and his super power is the ability to fix them. Thank God.

[burvantill]

My pen is here!!! And a new sponge to replace the two my dog ate.
just sharing

[Heather Boyd]

@Braden-Hallett

I’m not taking this class but your becoming a fabulous teacher with everything so nicely scheduled out.

[BichonBistro]

@burvantill yay!

[chrisaakins]

Here is my updated practice. Today I remembered that I had a watercolor brush pen that you fill with water and I thought, "Hey, why not try it with ink?" It worked rather well at least until the brush gets too much ink and I either couldn't get fine lines or it just blopped all over the place. (Grammarly does not like the word "blopped". It is too a word! I can say what I want.) But I did really like the expressive lines I was able to get out of it.

@Braden-Hallett one of these days I will be able to do the alternating thick-thin lines like you do and them not look like I am having some sort of tremor while I work them. (By the time I do I may actually have a tremor from being 107 or something )

[BichonBistro]

@chrisaakins so good!

[BichonBistro]

@Braden-Hallett I have a blown transmission

[chrisaakins]

@BichonBistro Thanks so much! It is so encouraging to hear someone likes your drawings.

[chrisaakins]

meanwhile, I am not getting any homework done....

[DaveLeekArt]

@chrisaakins really great work. You got the line work on that dragon pretty dang crisp.

[ArtofAleksey]

@chrisaakins breadloaf!! Looks so good.

Everyone is doing so greatt.

[braden H]

@Heather-Boyd said in How to ink 2.0 Group Runthrough Week 2:

your becoming a fabulous teacher with everything so nicely scheduled out.

It's because I was literally a teacher for a few years :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_closed_eyes:

[braden H]

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

one of these days I will be able to do the alternating thick-thin lines like you do

I think I may be having an easier time of it since I'm doing it digital. A real brush pen's a lot harder to use (in other words your lines look pretty darn good to me!)