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#ComicInkers Guidelines

Welcome to #ComicInkers!

This group started as a home for anyone who loves the art of comic book inking! It is for any who love to ink comics, and for those who just love the art form.

The goal of this community is to bring together inkers and those beginning in the art. This is a place where people can come to admire each other's work, learn and grown in the art, and where they can share their art with the world. There are no "professionals" nor "amateurs" here. Only inkers.

In its second year, #ComicInkers has also become a home for comic pencillers. While we as inkers know how to draw as well, it is not always our own pencils we sit down to ink. Often we create over the work of those who created before us. It is a beautiful relationship that has been around for most of the lifetime of comic books.

Let's grow this community!

:: #ComicInkers Rules ::

1. MEMBERSHIP: Members must be actual inkers and/or pencillers, traditional or digital, and have ink and/or pencil works in their own galleries. Please feel free to WATCH the group if you are neither an inker nor penciller, but a fan of the art form.

2. DEVIATIONS: INK deviation submissions do not have to be over your own original pencils, but they should be your own inks. Please do not upload inks from other artists. Also, as a common courtesy, please credit any artist who's pencils you ink over. PENCIL deviations must be your own work as well. Please submit only pencils you are allowing others to ink, and ideally at a print resolution.

3. Our aim is for comic book art in this group, so please aim to submit comic book art.

4. Please be mindful to submit your art to the appropriate folders. If your art is not accepted without reason, that is usually the reason why, so resubmit again to the appropriate folder.

Thank you.

Rock on.

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iamjamesporter Featured By Owner May 30, 2014  Professional Interface Designer
Hiya! Just to give you a heads up, there is now a Cover section at #ComicInkers.

-James
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sebastiancheng Featured By Owner May 1, 2014  Professional Digital Artist
Hey guys, my gallery here ----> sebastiancheng.deviantart.com/
Hope you guys like it~! :) (Smile)
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mlh70 Featured By Owner Mar 29, 2014
The death I did in the WIP is finished, so you can move it if you wish
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iamjamesporter Featured By Owner Mar 29, 2014  Professional Interface Designer
Awesome. Thanks!
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ZLMike Featured By Owner Mar 4, 2014  Student General Artist
Sry to bother you guys but I'd like to ask if this pic zlmike.deviantart.com/art/Elis… can be classified as digital inking? Im very new to comic digital inking soo pardon me for asking.
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iamjamesporter Featured By Owner Mar 16, 2014  Professional Interface Designer
No problem at all. Yeah, this looks like the final black and white line art before being possibly colored. Whether digital or traditional, inking is using whatever means to get the final black lines down in my opinion. Feel free to submit this. Thank you for asking.
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ZLMike Featured By Owner Mar 16, 2014  Student General Artist
Thx 4 taking the time and repliying, I most certainly will submit it (:
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JWBrainard Featured By Owner Dec 27, 2013   General Artist
If anyone can help me find solid learning materials like books or videos that will help me learn how to become an inker it would be much appreciated. I've been watching videos and reading articles via the web but can't seem to lock down the techniques. All I keep seeing is people talking about the brushes or inks used but not the actual methods in applying those tools to paper. I have used Gnome Workshop in the past and found them very helpful. For example the David Finch videos on drawing anatomy for comics are great and before purchasing them I really had a strong grasp on what I was going to get from each video. However on this inking video linked below I can't seem to get a feel on what I'm going to learn from it, if it will aid me or not in learning the techniques. Perhaps someone from this community can shed some light on it for me, here is the link:


Thanks for any help or advice.
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iamjamesporter Featured By Owner Dec 27, 2013  Professional Interface Designer
That video with Joe Weems is a great video. Really listen and watch it. Joe is a nib inker. It's what he likes to use. Other people like brush. Some like pens. You need to find what works for you, perhaps even a combo. As informative as books can be, the greatest way to learn to ink is by inking. Use your eye. Learn how a brush or nib or whatever works in your hands. But here are two great books I've read:

The DC Comics Guide to Inking Comics

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The Art Of Comic-Book Inking 2nd Edition
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JWBrainard Featured By Owner Dec 27, 2013   General Artist
Awesome, thank you! I actually just downloaded the video so i'm really pleased with it thus far. I'll defiantly check out the books.
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