From the course: Comic Books: Digital Inking and Refinement

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Inking on top of a pencil rough

Inking on top of a pencil rough

From the course: Comic Books: Digital Inking and Refinement

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Inking on top of a pencil rough

- [Voiceover] So now that I've shown you the typical way of digitally inking a comic book I wanted to show you another form of digital inking, which I use even more often. And funny enough, it doesn't involve any ink and it barely involves any digital inking. So I'm gonna show that to you. Here's another page from my book, The Aggregate. This is a rough, like what you've seen before. What happened was instead of finishing it digitally like we previously did I finished it in fact on a desk on real paper with mechanical pencils. That's why it's so grey looking. This is actually a super clean page that I finished off with a point five mechanical pencil, HB lead. And the reason I did that was because I just really still like working in pencil when I can. I took special care to keep the page super clean and nice looking, because I knew that I would be scanning it in and then finishing it off on the computer, which is actually called digital inking. So I'm gonna show you my process for…

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