Kei's inking skills

kei · Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 9:09 pm Post subject: Kei's inking skills

Ok so I decided to give it a try, here's a random PO

Maid PO
Art done by Kisin and Inking by teh Kei ofcourse.

Feel free to leave some feed back. ^_^

Now if your thinking a little choppy in some areas then I am too, so keep in mind i already figured that out.

Doot · Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 9:17 pm Post subject:

You should let Maika know her sketch is waiting for her in her PMs. Wink

kei · Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 12:01 am Post subject:

Man obviously noone else had an an opinion on my inking..

Chibi Knight · Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 1:24 am Post subject:

lol sorry bud, everyone is in line trying to get a Wii probably.

As far as crits. Your lines up top are thinner than the lines at the bottom. Thats generally called line weight, which you'll get the hang of with practice. As the choppiness goes, its all about continuous motion. try to make one clean stroke, then stop, repostion and continue. try not to go over the same section if you can, unless your're adding line weight. I noticed also that the broom handle and the hand both overlap, same with the hair and the arm. again it'll come with practice, but just remember whats on top of what and don't ink whats behind it.

practice practice practice.

kei · Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 1:42 am Post subject:

Yeah I noticed that too after the first try I'll continue to practice of my sketches.

ScrumYummy · bunnyhunches of scrums Gender: Joined: 29 Jun 2005

It does look good =)

My crits are pretty much the same as Chib's. A few helpful tips: Be consistant with the style of inking throughout a drawing. You seemed to change your mind about the style your were using halfway through. It's okay to use a choppy-er style, or a heavy style, or a light style, or a weighted style, but be consistant with it (inside the same drawing).

Did you ink this traditionally, or digitally?

kei · Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 4:25 pm Post subject:

ScrumYummy · bunnyhunches of scrums Gender: Joined: 29 Jun 2005

Oh yes. Pentabs make a world of difference. X)!

Anymoo. Are you using the pen tool and filling, or what? If you are, try messing with the anchor points to better control the smoothness and weight of your lines.

kei · Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 7:56 pm Post subject:

Yeah I'm using the pen tool. I've gotten alot better the newer one I just got finished with looks a hell of a lot better simple because I didn't make the lines to heavy, except on the hair which i ended up doing by axcident by not deleting the path and it axidentlly went over it again. Hopefully I'll be getting a pen pad for my bday nex week.