how do YOU ink your art (non-digital)

..anyone inked there artwork non-digitally?

how did you do it?.. what pens did you use?..ect..

personally, for the stuff I used ta do... I used over-head transparencies and
sharpie markers ( I squished the tips super small with pliers ) on a cross-section
gridded paper around 11x17..so thats two over-head transparencies for top and bottom
at 8 1/2 x 11 each..

I consider it fun.. and its nice ta flip the pages into the scanner and not worry about what way there facing sense they show up whither there facing down or up anyway.. plus not worrying about the sheets themselfs, sense transparencies with perminent markers are pretty durable ( and cheap )

..still though.. im ready ta start inking in a smaller scale, using smaller pens or brushs
...( inking nibs are non-lefty friendly )

..so I was wondering if anyone else inked there art non-digitally, and how you did it??

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Whoah, that's an interesting technique you use. Really cool.


For my inking, I lightly erase the pencil sketch (on regular printer paper), but not completely, enough to still see the lines and most of the details. And then I draw over it with a 0.3mm black pen (I found mine at a Japanese store where I live, it had a whole isle of pens. I dunno where they could be found elsewhere, but I'm sure they can be found online for cheap!). I let it sit for 15 minutes or so to dry, and then I erase any remaining pencil marks completely. And then I color it in with markers and stuff.
Afterwards, I go over with a regular black ball-point pen to bold in certain details.

This is an interesting thread, I'm interested in other people's responses too.

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I've used a range of different tools to ink my pencils. I primarily use a combination of brushes and technical pens. When I'm lazy and I want to ink quickly I'll use a magic maker like tool like a Sharpie -- nothing to clean! Lately, I've been mega lazy. I've been just pencilling tightly and then scanning the art into Photoshop and cleaning up the stray pencils and then use the software tools to make it look inked -- like I said mega lazy. I see a theme emerging

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I don't ink anymore for the most part. Instead of inking, I simply do a blue line under draft in Colerase pencil, then do tight pencils on top of that. Then I remove the blue lines in Photoshop and adjust levels so that my pencil lines are dark.

When I used to ink the old fashioned way, I'd take my original drawing and then layer rag vellum over it, inking with a 0.5 Micron Sakura pen. If you go this route, I suggest 50% rag vellum sheets since they have enough paper content to not make the pens run, while having enough vellum to make the paper transparent enough to see through.

Vellum is easy enough to get in any drafting or most office supply stores. It's like 'Tracing Paper Plus.'

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I did a lot of inking with a pen holder and metal nib. It's nice for expressive lines. But I found I also tended to dig into the paper a lot to get thicker lines, and got tired of that. I still have some nibs and the inks but I've gone back to pens.

Usually I ink with Micron or gel pens, tho' some of my artist buddies have these great, I think, Pentel brush pens that just do not bleed or smudge when gone over with markers. So if I can find some locally I'mma pick one up. Microns are nice because they're fairly inexpensive and come in multiple sizes and colors. Gel pens are nice because they come in an extreme variety of colors including metallics and glitter, but don't offer much in the way of size variety. And let's face it, some times you need that .005 tip.

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I just use uniball or pilot ballpoints. Since I generally don't use sweeping lines and different weights, and most of my art winds up online as adoptables and is more for the pose and coloring than how pretty the lineart looks, I'm okay with that.

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