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u/ArenSilver · 4 pointsr/comicbooks

The DC Guide to Inking is a pretty good resource and if you want to do it digitally The DC Comics Guide to Digitally Drawing Comics has some good tips.


You might be able to find some decent YouTube videos but these are worth the dollars.

u/roguea007 · 3 pointsr/learnart

Any of Scott McCloud's books. Making Comics is good for the technical side, Understanding Comics (the 1st of his series) is also good to break down WHY comics are important.

(One can probably skip his second book, it mostly examines webcomics and since it was printed is fairly outddated now thanks to various internet technologies advancing as it all does)

DC Comics has also published a series of "How-To" books which are good to thumb through , I personally own all of them but the Writing one-

-[DC Comics Guide to Writing Comics] (http://www.amazon.com/DC-Comics-Guide-Writing/dp/0823010279/ref=pd_sim_b_4)

-DC Comics Guide To Pencilling Comics

-DC Comics Guide To Inking Comics

-DC Comics Guide To Coloring and Lettering Comics

-DC Comics Guide to Digitally Drawing Comics

Since you mentioned the line thickness/thinness- um, the inking one would probably be a good one to start with. It'll show at least American/western methods of going about things, minus anything digital because the book was written before digital was big in the process. The Digital Drawing book somewhat helps on that issue but with programs like Painter, you can pretty much emulate any traditional tool fairly easily. If you have a particular style in mind you want, post it up and perhaps I can help determine what tools were probably used to make it???

u/le_dom · 2 pointsr/ask

I can't stand to watch this stay uncommented, so here I go:

As I recall from reading the 'DC Comics Guide to Inking', there's a certain kind of brush hair that works better than others. Human? Elven? I don't know. Bottom line is: Don't just buy the chepeast brush around, as you lose precision because the brush hair on the tip is all fucked up. I guess that's as important for water colour as it is for ink.