Honestly, I haven't used any resources, other than looking at the inking of others and emulating that. I've been reading a bunch of Too Much Coffee Man lately, and there's some pretty interesting ink work there, if you're interested.

hmm I dunno. but try searching deviant art, there is loads of tutorials ^_^

I saw some but they weren't really good in-depth info, I guess I could trying googling DA again.

If you need any help inking, I could help you out:) Just email me an image you want inked, and I will do so:)

-Balto Wolf

um... thanks but that doesn't help me LEARN inking x3

I know, I was just offering:)
I wish I could help!

-Balto Wolf

watch me at home ink

sure, drive your trailer home over here

wrong trailor nerd nipples :P but close.

maybe you should start just by doing nice borders ( bolder and harder borders inthe outline of the picture )

I dont know you but I love my stylographs, sharpies work too :o

Most been trying to ink things digitally, mostly because I don't want to pay for good paper x3. But I'll keep that in mind

well then.. try to use the digital pen technique of photoshop?
using "PATHS".

You honestly whan to know what *I* found helpful?

I copied Spawn comics, I went through this Spawn McFarlane fanboi phase where I would copy all the fancy shit Image comics was pumping out. I learned a shitload. Start with the EASIEST pen you feel comfortable with, then progress toward using a brush... a real challenge.

Is there a way to do this without giving McFarlane any more money?

google image search? 0=)

Though as far as digital inking. Iv'e been abusing the Pen tool in photoshop a lot lately. Its wildly and insane at first but very handy when you get it under some control.

Otherwise, I'd set brush hardness really high, use 1-4 pixel brush size and zoom in to 300%-%400. Then I just work in strokes building up the lines.

Sometimes half the challenge in digital inking, atleast to me, feels like finding the right brush.

Thanks for giving me a good answer BTW <3

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/24606718/
http://www.tutorialized.com/tutoria.....Photoshop/8698

This was handy as far as getting me started using the Pen tool in Photoshop.

Thanks a bunch <3

put pen on paper or tablet
move pen around

Hng... Hmph....Nng...Gh....Hrng....

*pant* Hold on a bit, gettin' you some ink now...

http://www.itchstudios.com/psg/art_tut.htm

This is a tutorial on shading, lighting, posing, and other art elements, as well as some things on drawing figures and objects. It's big, I haven't read all of it, and it's probably not what you are looking for, but it's got a lot of helpful information.

Yeah, Arshes showed me this a while back, I've been using to to improve my shading and coloring, but it doesn't really cover inking at all... thanks though! Its a GREAT tutorial

Digital inking is easy!

Open Photoshop.
Take a hard round brush.
Have the color be pure black. Switch with X. Have the second color be white.
Put some black where necessary. Put some white to eat away the unneccessary black.
Use X to switch between the two fast. CTRL Z to teach that tablet who the boss is.
Spend a lot of time until it looks cool, with line thickness changing elegantly.

PROTIP: This is digital. It's okay to make mistakes, it's okay to be messy.
If a part has weird proportions, just cut and paste it and then stretch that part to fit.
Then refine the lines with more blacking and whiting.


I can't draw a nice curve to save my life, but if I spend enough time I can make a nice arrangement of white and black pixels that look like what I want.

To be honest with you, I think inking traditionally will teach you how to ink better than digitally. You'll learn better pen control than you would with digital only, then you also get a nice 'real' ink picture for your effort, not just a .psd file. You don't need HOLY SHIT EXPENSIVE LOL paper to learn what you're doing. I've found that computer paper and microns are good if you're just going to be scanning stuff to color it.

i like path inking
http://www.fur.com/~almackey/tutorial/nstep4c.html
but its not for everyone

I dont know of any tutories myself but i have done alot of inking. I prefer to make numerus small stokes along the lines of a pencile sketch, touching the paper only lightly each time, this insures that you dont have the problem of your lines getting steadily thicker as you press the pen into the entire line and lets you slowly work from begining to end without having to do the curve all in one single stroke. the real thing to remember is you are trying to get ink to go where you want, not push hard enough to make a pencil work. My fave real media inking pens are sharpy microfine belive it or not. In digital you will find the tablet surface is far more slippery than a piece of paper, but you do have the real advantage of being able to work with the picture you are working on magnified. when im doing detail work i tend to work with a 2 to 4 times magnification which allows the tablet to work with a far supirior level of detail