Video: How to Color Dark Areas for Comic Strip

Using your felt pen or thick marker to fill-in dark areas of your comic strip; learn this and more in this free online art lessons about creating comic strips taught by experienced cartoonist and graphic artist Matt Cail.

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The next part of inking is filling in all of the black regions on your page. Some people fine doing this with a felt marker, and that's my preference, but you can also use a more general black marker, especially if you want to conserver your ink in your fine felt tip pen. I like going through. If you know any one who has black hair, black metal, black sky, now is the time to kind of go back through and fill that in. Do this all by hand making sure to fill in everything and no little white specs lying around. Again, everything should be filled in black. If you want this chair to be black, now is the time to make it ink dark. I don't tend to do a ton of additional shading and shadowing on my comic strips. I like keeping it a little more simple and straight forward, but there are other things that you can do. For example, you can take this leg and make it a little more metallic by having half of it being black while the other half still in white. I recommend just not getting too bogged down though with coming up with complicated shadowing and inking techniques. Just keeping it pure and keeping it real will make for a much stronger comic strip.

How to Color Dark Areas for Comic Strip

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