How i create comics in adobe illustrator max riffner. While attending the ringling school of design, phil noto began his career as an intern at walt disney feature animation florida. The illustrations would be used to help the rest of the creative team cast the roles for the film. How to ink comic books in adobe illustrator adobe illustrator. After carefully selecting his brushes in photoshop, ben begins the digital inking process. Some comic inkers and comic artists now seek for the convenience of using computers in creating comics, opting for a faster and easier approach. Before photoshop, illustrator and manga studio was around, all of your inking was done on a desktop a real one made of wood using a number of tools.
The penciller creates a drawing, the inker outlines, interprets, finalizes, retraces this drawing by using a pencil, pen or a brush. There are notes on equipment, inking with pen and with brush, shading, feathering and crosshatching, contouring that is, edging an element of the picture to help define it in some way facial shadows, backgrounds. Inking over the pencils of professional artists can be a great training exercise for understanding how mood and tone can be changed by the inking process. Heres my first custom made procreate ink brush set with more than 16 brushes for inking and special effects. Creating comics using photoshop brushes adobe blog. Severin spent more than 50 years as an illustrator, handling all three of the major visual tasks in comic book production. Its dedicated to the great will elder, an american illustrator and comic book artist who worked in numerous areas of commercial art but is best known for a zany cartoon style that helped launch harvey kurtzmans mad comic book in 1952. This ink is stored in a container so you wont be using markers or the like for inking. Mar 01, 2016 noeska smit, a phd who deals with all things medical visualization and other things that are way above my head asked me to write a blog piece on the basics of comic book inking and, more specifically, on the dos, donts and whys of it all. At first, im sure it seems pretty selfexplanatory, but in fact its not.
A number of graphic editing software can aid in comic book inking, adobe photoshop, illustrator and many others. If you ever wondered what inkscape was or how to use it, this book is for you. Coloring and inking tips in illustrator webcomic alliance. Free comic ink brushes free photoshop brushes at brusheezy. Because of the way that illustrator is usually taught, a lot of people have no idea that you can do beautiful freehand cartoon inking with the freehand brush tool in adobe illustrator. After two more years of illustration study, he returned to disney animation as a cleanup artist. Every comic book inker should have india ink to work with. Comic creator ben bishop shows two methods for inking comics in photoshop, using examples from his. Draw a small comic book for children to read as they sit in your waiting room. Using different width profiles in the stroke panel we can give our line art a varied line weight.
Voiceover youve probably heard the term inking before. Ive switched up to todays comic for this part of the article. Learn my secret to the fastest, simplest, down and dirty comic style inking and coloring technique for adobe illustrator. I need comic pages with 45 panels per page, including inking and coloring. In this adobe illustrator tutorial we will be using the anchor point guide to assist while going through a simple. The northern mist, a suspense horror set during the roman occupation of briton. Illustrator and storyboard artist since 15 years, im also creating courses creator. In my first trip back to tutorials in a little while, and finally im following up on my last video post from the westford comic book show, where we. Inking, or finishing, a comic page is a crucial step in the creation of a comic book and is a skill in and of itself. When i received the book, it was thinner than i thought and i read the entire book within 15 minutes. In this fiveweek course, graphic designer and illustrator rich bloom teaches you all the necessary tools and tricks to expand upon your logo work including advanced logo techniques to incorporate images and icons, as well as design pages to give your comic a polished and professional look.
Ive cobbled together my inking and coloring process from several different sources. There are a lot of really good tutorials on the web for digital inking and coloring. Illustrator has long been used in the comics industry for lettering, and comic book lettering. In this course, comic creator ben bishop shows two methods for finishing comics in photoshop, using examples from his graphic novel, the aggregate. This is a great example of one of the features that makes adobe illustrator such a great tool for cartoon and comic book inking. A complete illustrated picture walkthrough guide on digital comic book inking techniques using the popular free vector art program called inkscape. The comicraft way is a great book to refer back to for this. Weve complied this article to help simplify the process and hopefully explain how the relationships between the illustrator, writer and publisher work in general without going into too much detail. Ultimate inking and coloring tutorial for adobe illustrator beats. And so i did, and it turned into a fullblown essay.
Inking comics can be fun, frustrating, or a mix of each. Creating a comic book cover in illustrator and photoshop. I create custom illustrations in both traditional and digital media, and i am extremely proficient in photoshop and illustrator, along with other art and image software. Inking over the pencils of professional artists can be a great training exercise. On the other hand, the work can be divided in a variety of ways. In my first trip back to tutorials in a little while, and finally im following up on my last video post from the westford comic book show, where we met enrique savory jr.
The art of comic book inking is divided into three sections. Noeska smit, a phd who deals with all things medical visualization and other things that are way above my head asked me to write a blog piece on the basics of comic book inking and, more specifically, on the dos, donts and whys of it all. His primary comic book inking experience includes big bang comics for image, david hahns serena published by an add to favorites. Create a comic story with cartoon illustrations that features your product or tells your companys origin story for distribution at trade shows and other promotional events. Using a computer software program, you can make the inking much faster. My name is eddie, and ill be teaching you three different techniques for applying inks on top of your penciled artwork in illustrator. In the first part, see how to create that byhand comic art look in adobe illustrator, and then in part two, see how. In this course, we will create a vector character with an action pose and background for a professional comic book cover. Comic books are sequential storytelling they tell a story one drawing at a time.
How to ink comic books in adobe illustrator wonderhowto. We will look at some different ways in which you can ink a comic character with adobe illustrator. The first 70 or so pages are concerned with the basics of inking. There are notes on equipment, inking with pen and with brush, shading, feathering and crosshatching, contouring that is, edging an element of the picture to help define it in some way facial shadows, backgrounds and basic textures fire, water, earth, wood, metal and vegetation.
Ive been working on a ink brush with a bit of texture and not so smooth. Oct 27, 2011 exporting your illustrator art for the web. How to ink a comic character in adobe illustrator design tutsplus. Such programs allow comic inkers to digitally correct and modify faults that are commonly difficult to do by hand. By using the art brush, pattern brush, and scatter brush we can make detailed design elements in a single stroke. In the foreword, gary martin says the art of comic book inking is intended for people who want to become inkers working inkers who havent had professional training pencillers who want their work to be more inkerfriendly the majority of editors working in comics todaythis isnt a. Make a family comic book as a gift for a birthday, reunion, anniversary, or another holiday. Throughout these lessons, we will do ink and line work in illustrator, then we will master the colors and effects in photoshop. In this twopart video tutorial, youll learn how to take a sketch and turn it into vector adobe illustrator artwork. I have done both digital and traditional comic book pencilling and inking, and created thousands of vector art designs for print and apparel. Comic book digital inking techniques with illustrator vector anchor. The old masters used bottles of black ink, different types of brushes, and steel nibs in quill pens. For example, different comic book illustrators can be responsible for the three stages of drawing. Marie severin, versatile hall of fame comicbook illustrator.
Earlier this year i was commissioned to come up with a series of character illustrations for cohort pictures new film project. Using a stylus and a digital drawing tablet, a penciled art scanned into a computer can then be digitally inked. Also called black ink, this ink retains the color as soon as it is placed on the page since the ink is carbonbased. Quickly inking and coloring comics in illustrator cc youtube.
Jul 31, 2010 i doubt this will be useful for you but i work a bit on this brush i use for inking, so i though id just plop it up here. Ultimate inking and coloring tutorial for adobe illustrator. Apr 09, 2020 one person can originate all of the material within the comic book, including both text and images. In this adobe illustrator tutorial we will be using the anchor point guide to assist while going through a simple workflow together. Aug 01, 2012 comic book inking and coloring tutorial. Its great for poster art, cartoon characters, comic book art or any place you need a classic ink and color look. This was a practice exercise i gave myself in the inking process of comic book art using adobe illustrator. Working in vector has additional advantages, from not having to worry about resolution to. Ive been a graphic designer for over 9 years but this. Hello, and welcome to this series of lessons focusing on inking comic art in illustrator, presented by digitaltutors. Digital inking your illustrations and comic book instructory. In traditional comic book publishing, an artist known as a penciler would lay out the pages that tell the story, and then hand off the work to an inker to finish the pages. Mar, 2018 getting a comic book from script to print can be a complicated undertaking, with lots of moving parts to consider.
How to ink comic strips in adobe illustrator youtube. This is where i most often see great art fail miserably. Now this also depends on your tablet settings and is easily adjustable pieces ive used this on include. Although many comic book and comic strip artists do most of their inking work with a pen, artists such as bill waterston calvin and hobbes, walt kelly pogo, will eisner the spirit, and jack kirby. The trouble is that most of them assume you have six to eight hours to finish a drawing that is budgeted for two. Inking was necessary in the traditional printing process as presses could not. How to hire a comic book artist hire an illustrator. Whether its a web comic, comic book, or graphic novel, the. Comic books are fun to make, but inking them can be a time extensive pain of a process. Patrick tuller is an illustrator and comic book artistinker. The inker sometimes credited as the finisher or embellisher is one of the two line artists in traditional comic book production.
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