I know just as much as you do about the inking tools in Photoshop. D:

I use old-fashioned pens on paper. I can't ink with my tablet because my hand is far steadier with a real pen than a tablet.

Yeah, I know some artists who ink the traditional way.. what do you use for that? It might help me, should I ever get a scanner..

Uniball "Vision Elite" series pens. There are ones that are white in appearance that are .8mm, but I use the black ones that are .5mm.

There are other Uniball pens that seem like the same because they have the same millimeter size and stuff, but for some reason it's only the Vision Elite pens that are worth buying. They're a little more expensive, but when I bought the slightly cheaper ones I ended up having pens that couldn't write.

I wish someone could advice me as well. I always just draw stuff with plain old pencils and then tweak the levels digitally so that the lines become darker.

Hmm, is that how you do it? Well in any case, your art is pretty darn amazing color wise, so I'm sure you got a good inking style down..

Thanks, I'm always aiming for better results, though. ^_^

I've been trying to find some tutorials on how to do vector lineart, but the ones I've found so far have only made me feel more confused than before. o_o

>>; Inking? I just make bolder lines in Open Canvas since my normal sketches are messy as hell.

yeah.. you have a tablet, no? I'm kinda clueless with OC personally.

as for inking, when I do it, I mostly go the analog way. my tablet + my tablet skills just arnt good enough to make nice and clean lines digitally.

http://psistorm04.livejournal.com/7829.html
here I wrote down some advice when it comes to traditional inking - hope that helps some :)

Traditional inker too, eh? hmm.. I lack a scanner, but I've seen some good digital methods..