How To Ink Manga Drawings

Give the ink a few minutes to dry before you start adding detail or going over lines a second time.

How to ink manga drawings. This is an inking tutorial since its inktober but i also go through the process of drawing a female manga face. Summon the photoshop gods. Accurate low key anatomy will set your manga art apart from the crowd. First draw your curved eyelash line as you did for the female eye.

Sakura micron ink pens 16 strathmore bristol paper 10 kneaded eraser 1 this is a series on art that i will be doing for beginner manga artist. Click the icon in the top right to enlarge the image. This book is absolutely amazing. Use a thin nib the interchangeable tip of a dip pen and light ink for the initial outline and thicken lines later as.

I want the background to pop and feel real even though it ll eventually have a two dimensional stylised look. The art of comic book inking 2nd edition by gary martin. Near the middle of the top draw a small circle for the pupil and surround that with a larger half circle for the iris. I see that a lot of people struggle with inking.

I will be showing the basics of. A mixture of long confident strokes and short strokes with the pen quickly bring the character together and it s not long before it is time to allow the ink to dry and use an eraser to rub out the original pencil drawing which once existed on it s own. Then draw a second curved line a bit thinner this time underneath to represent the bottom eyelashes. It is best to use digital art as a guide for handwritten art because natural drawings can really let you express freely and inking comic processes simply make comics look more natural and appealing.