How to Ink a Comic Strip

Video Transcript

"Moving onward, we're going to go on to inking and we're going to cover on outlining all of our shapes that we've already drawn in our panels, like so. There are a whole lot of different brands of pens out there. The important thing to keep in mind is just having a very, very fine tip to your felt marker. These are not going to be thick huge thick pens. You want to be able to get in here and get a lot of detail down. The way that I prefer is the number 3s, 5s, or 8 weights. That basically refers to the width on the tip of your marker. What you're going to do for the first stage of inking is essentially outline. Like I've already said, we're going to basically go over most every blue line, except for maybe potentially some detail. Everything is going to be outlined in black. You're going to cover up the blue. What you'll soon realize is that the thickness of your felt marker is still enough where it'll cover up the blue nice and neatly, so you don't have to worry about that. Any erasing of the blue is usually very minimal. If you end up scanning or copying, you don't have to worry about it at all because the blue lead does not tend to show up after you copy or scan it. What you're going to on this is you're going to outline all panels. The other important thing to keep in mind is if there's any left handers out there, watch out for left smear. Make sure to draw from right to left if you're left handed and vice versa if you happen to use that other hand. "