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H0lyhandgrenade — H0ly's Inking Process
Published: 2013-04-09 23:07:22 +0000 UTC; Views: 16265; Favourites: 662; Downloads: 197
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I said I'd do another tutorial/step by step/whatever someday, and here it is! This is the info on my current inking technique. ....... And of course the pens I use to do it. I'm not sure how useful this is, but I do hope it might be a little.Oh! And to see the finished page in full of course, click here! [link] To read the whole comic from the start click here. [link]
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Omg gosh! Thank you so much! I had a hard time thinking if I should go digital but I have some problems with that - I'm slow at digital and traditional is ma life! Thank you
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Helped a lot in the Inking process!!! Thanks for making this!!!
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Great contribution to the subject matter! Thank you for sharing!
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Why thankyou :>
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Very informative!
Thought I might have missed it but do you use a lightbox to transfer the digital sketch to the paper?
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No, I just print it out in faint red and ink right on top of that.
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Thanks for sharing your methods, I would've never thought of sketching digitally mainly because I completely ignored the fact that I could make the lines invisible afterwards. I really want to give this a try when I have a printer at hand! I really love your art style, by the way. It looks amazing
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Very interesting. Never thought about sketching digitally and then inking traditionally. I think I'll try this method. My ink pencils are itching to be used. 
Thanks for a good tutorial and tips!
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wonderful; your process is interesting! lettering before inking? I've always thought this was a bad idea! but you did so wonderfully 
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I think I will adopt this if it's alright with you
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Cheap arse eh? Can't say no to a bit of cheap arse ;D
*ducks* SORRY SORRY WASN'T FUNNY
(not really sorry, fucking love puns)
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Thanks a ton for posting this! I'm not much of an artist but I've been working on inking and I feel that some ideas out of this will help me with my own process. So again thank you lots!
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Wow, that's very fantastic! I agree about doing the sharpie part traditionally rather than fill in blacks digitally; there's just something neat about shading those huge black sections in by hand, and being able to see it on the actual paper in front of you.
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Oooch... the 0,05 pen... *___* My dream is to get one of this kind of pen. I have two uniball pens, one 0,2 and one 0,8, but I've never seen the 0,05 one.
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They are about, but if you're struggling I'd advise looking online xD They're quite easy to get that way.
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Yes, they are, but shipping costs are way too expensive XD It's like buying two pens instead of one XD I will propably look for them in the bigger city, when I will have an opportunity to do so.
Did I say that I love your comic and read every page you update? XD
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This is incredibly helpful... thanks for sharing! Your method is so simple and yet, it gives a great effect and very professional-looking pages. I feel I can learn a lot from this :3
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This looks amazing! After seeing a bunch of the other finished pages it's cool to see the step-by-step process that goes into making each page. It certainly makes me appreciate the comic that much more.
Thanks for sharing!
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nice job! your lines are awesome, great pen work
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Super interesting and informative. Has me thinking about my own process and how I could improve. Thanks for sharing, H0ly!
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I'd always wondered how you made your pages look so neat! Can't believe you don't use a ruler! Kudos!
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Hatching, I honestly forgot how powerful that stuff is. The ability to shade and add textures at the same time.
Very helpful tutorial. I never even thought about making the outline thickness based on the light source. I normally just pick a pen size and stick with it. I may have to try to do that next time.
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This is great tutorial, but when u jumped from details and hatching to the final product. how did u ge the black so dark? was it like a scanner setting or computer program?
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Wow, that's all I can say.
And very interesting. I'm gonna have to remember this for personal use...
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Really interesting to see how you work.I'm really glad there are still people who prefer to do stuff by hand - I really need to get back into hand-inking and stuff. What about the gray tones like the ones on DT and George's hair? Do you do those with marker or add those digitally?
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Oh those are digital xD I just add in things like that as quick as I can.
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I use those brands of pen, minus the Sharpies, ( I don't like how bad they bleed through printer paper). I'm partial to the S size and the B size myself. Or the extra big B if I'm wanting to fill a lot in.
Back when I made comic pages I did that a wee bit different. I liked tumbnailing by hand, they laying out in photoshop (just the borders), then printing out the borders and drawing the rest in with a regular pencil. Then I'd scan the pencils in, turn it all light blue, then print again and ink that. Then scan again, get rid of the blue channel, play with the levels, and save it as greyscale. Then I'd move it back to RBG and I'd be mostly done, minus cleanup and other things.
Buuuut my way eats more paper.
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That is EXACTLY what I used to do xD However, I found by making the sketching digital and cutting out that stage of scanning and printing etc, it just made things a little faster. Just enough to make a difference. And indeed, less paper. But yeah, I can certainly see the draw of keeping the major part of the drawing stage traditional, considering how long I did it that way.
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H-holy crap you actually uploaded one
THANK YOU SO MUCH! ;A;
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Hah, you're very welcome xD You oughta know your request was the tipping point!
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ohmygod really?! Ahhh sorry if I was annoying 
Also, you know the bottem of the art piece it's only black? before all the photoshop it's kinda streaky, but the final image is completely black! How did you do that?
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Don't worry, you weren't annoying. You were nice about how you asked xD As for the making the inks clean, that's all done in Photoshop. I might make a tutorial on how I do that sometime too
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Omg you really are the nicest and most caring person aren't you? Wow, I can't begin to thank you enough with all the help and all the questions I throw at you
I've been inspired by your comics to start maybe dabbling myself and all your tutorials helped this noob comic artist
THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart :')
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That's great news, I'm glad to hear I've inspired someone
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You really, really have! 
Thank you so much!
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