Inking Process - Tumblr Posts

Sammy filmed me inking her sketch and made a lovely time-lapse! If you’re interested in how I do my ‘ink and water’ pictures, this is it! Materials: Sketch (by Sammy): 2H pencil on bristol board Inks (by me): Rotring art pen, Pentel water brush pens.

Incidentally I’ve got normal, cheap, water-soluble black ink cartridges in the pen, the kind you can get in packs of 100 from any old stationer’s shop. I’m so happy Rotring pens take standard-size cartridges!

Since @sarahfogg moved to Birmingham we’ve been meeting up regularly for ‘inking club’ … to start with we were working on our own comics/illustration projects, but we realised last week it would be fun to do some swaps. So this is my pencils, with Sarah’s inks :)

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Here are some process photos for the portrait of Pocket Witch Gravity I posted a while ago. Whenever I post process photos it makes me realise how conventional my process is! I think literally the only thing that’s different to any of my friends is that I finish the line inking after the spot black, rather than before. Look out for some close-up photos of the comic as well!