Page 7 from May Sentaro #1. Pencils by Shane Peters.
Chapter 2: Damn Sequentials!
Can't ink pinups forever ya know. The next
few pages describe the long tedious process of inking a sequential page. Use
what you have learned about line weights and practicing on pinups and add it to
the crap you're about to learn. Then you can improve on it and become much
better than myself and everyone can ask you for help and leave me alone! er...ahem.
:-D
Anyway...I wrote the following stuff
before I wrote the first two pages of this tutorial...and while I was inking the
page. So, it's bound to be a tad repetitive and bland...but hopefully you'll
learn something and make it all worth while.
The first thing I do is ink the borders. I
usually do this with a
KOH-I-NOOR RAPIDOGRAPH size 4(orange cap) techpen
and run-of-the-mill
metal ruler with cork backing. I prefer the cork
rulers as opposed to your normal straight edge because it grips the paper.
There's nothing more annoying than the ruler slipping as you're trying to
make a nice straight border.
TIP: When inking a line, start closest to you
and ink the line outward. This will result in a smoother, less wobbly
line. Also, don't ink an outline in one stroke. Instead, use a series of
smaller strokes that start and stop on corners. The image above is made up
of 11 different inked lines.
After the borders are all inked, I go in with
a generic #1 round brush (or a #3 SCHARFF...depending on what I have
handy) and FW brand ink and outline all the figures on the
page. Varying the line weights will make the figures will make them stand
out from the background more, so that's very important. Don't be afraid to
make them really thick in some areas. As long as it's on the outside of
the line that you add weight, you're pretty safe. Try to think of inking
as surrounding the white spaces with black instead of drawing a line
around stuff.
Don't forget. Draw and
fill...
...and build up the line.
Here's that panel
with all the figures outlined. Notice that the faces haven't been inked
yet. Since they are so small in this panel, I'll go in with a quill later
on and ink those. Staying true to the pencils with faces is important.
Also, I haven't inked the outline of the sword sheath yet. Since it's a
manmade object and is made of long outlines, I will use a french curve and
a
size 3x0(beige cap) techpen to ink it later. This should give it more of
a manufactured look instead of organic.
There's the whole page
with the figures outlined. The outlines at this point are pretty basic and
will be tweaked and thickened later on accordingly. I'll get into that
later.
