Digital Inking

[NinjaKameko]

erm, yes. Anyone know any programs or how to do this in photoshop; I've been having the hardest time inking stuff and then scanning it; any info would be most appreciated! ta ta

[Ninjatron]

You need a tablet, first of all. If you don't have one, I can not in good faith recommend you even try it.

Change your scanned pencil lines to a color, like blue.

Always ink on a new layer. Use several layers if you have to.

Use hard edged brushes and make sure that shape dynamics is turned on.

Ink your work the same way you would using real ink. Use different line thicknessess.

For straight line, get yourself familiar with the pen tool, so you can run paths and stroke them.

And lastly, but completely optional, look into a program called Adobe Streamline. It can vectorize artwork and makes things nice and smooth.

Digital ink is not an easy way out of doing practical inks. If you're having trouble with doing inks for real, then you'll have trouble inking digitally as well. Digital ink isn't less difficult, just less messy.

Sayonara.