You can draw first and then choose the look of your stroke Using vector ‘ink’ allows you to do all of these and more (like edit the pressure of your strokes later). But despite of being able to undo and erase ink strokes, you can’t resize, manipulate or move your lines without losing quality and spending ages while doing it. There’s the pixel-based software inking alternative (the most popular for some reason). With traditional ink it’s virtually impossible to erase a stroke without doing a real mess using correction fluids or similar. Don’t worry, for this tutorial, we’ve prepared a couple of free brushes to download, so you can follow along without any problem.Īpart from the obvious, which is having a resolution-independent artwork, vectors offers more cool features: 1. The original Advanced Illustration Pack includes a vector brush set. Our final artwork dimensions will be: 6600 x 5400 px Just make sure you’re working on a big enough Artboard in order to translate accurately all the key details from sketch to line and color. You should be able to follow along without any problem. You’ve been provided with this final sketch from the penciler: Click on this image to downloadįor this task, you can use your own drawings.

As you may guess, there is plenty of money at stake… So basically your artwork needs to be appealing enough to sell the graphic novel to your audience without having seen the story first. This final cover will be used as well, for promotional material, merchandising, etc. These guys are about to release their next sci-fi graphic novel hit and you’ve been assigned by the art director to finish the cover artwork for the novel.

Imagine you’re working as a Lead Artist at a multimillion-dollar comic book publisher. This tutorial is an excerpt of our Advanced Illustration 1 eBook, released a little while ago. We’ll share some useful tricks to apply digital and resolution-independent ink to our pencil sketches.

Today we’re going to learn the advantages of digital inking.

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