At this point, I've always inked by hand using a fine lining pen, then took the image to adobe illustrator, after a quick clean up of any messes I made. I would then use Live Trace to "smooth" out the lines. My desire was always to get that smooth feel I constantly saw in others artwork, and live trace gave that. At the same time however, even when set to the perfect preferences for the image, certain lines wouldn't form correctly. I had been wonder what I was doing wrong, so I look up digital inking. Imagine my surprise when I realized I've been doing it ass backwards this entire time!

So now I ask those who've attempted to digitally ink their drawings. Know any tutorials or tips I could use?