{"id":19,"date":"2005-01-05T19:17:34","date_gmt":"2005-01-06T16:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=19"},"modified":"2005-01-05T21:02:42","modified_gmt":"2005-01-06T18:02:42","slug":"the-pails-progress-pt-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=19","title":{"rendered":"The pail’s progress pt. 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

Normally I wouldn’t start inking until I had all of the penciled pages of the story done, but just for the sake of this experiment I decided to go ahead and ink this one page and see it through to completion.<\/p>\n

I pretty much always start inking with a brush, then fill in smaller details with pen or crow-quill–then do shading either with crosshatching or with a duotone overlay of gray. I had it set in my min, though, that for this story I was going to attempt a Robert Crumb-style inking job using only pens, and a lot looser hatching than in normally would.<\/p>\n

The results of this on the first panel were, unfortunately, very poor (shown on the left of the image below). So poor, in fact, that I wound up scanning the panel into Photoshop, converting the black ink to a non-photo blue, then printing that out and re-inking it with a brush in my more natural style (shown on the right). This is a pretty cluttered panel to start, which is difficult to deal with, so I’m not entirely happy with the results this second time around, but I’m gonna keep going and see how it goes.<\/p>\n

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Normally I wouldn’t start inking until I had all of the penciled pages of the story done, but just for the sake of this experiment I decided to go ahead and ink this one page and see it through to completion. I pretty much always start inking with a brush, then fill in smaller details … <\/p>\n

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