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ARSENIC LULLABY AND INKTOBER!
Inktober is upon us, and with all due respect to the
"official inktober" instgram page...their "promps"
aren't really much help, are they?
Uhm...those are promps for things to draw.
...inking is a different animal.
What you need
are a bunch of pre-penciled images to take your pen,
brush, or crow quill to.
SO, I picked
out some Arsenic Lullaby illustrations of varying degrees of
difficulty and each with different challenges. You got your
long and short straight line, long and short curved lines,
organic stuff, inorganic stuff, fluids, Lines crowded
together, lines all by their lonesome with nothing around to
distract the eye from them...a little bit of everything.
Click on the images or the link below each ( depending
on your browsers) for a hi resolution image roughly the size
it was originally inked ( about 6 inches wide) to print out
on whatever paper you like.
Generally the job of the professional inker it not
to wildly change the image by adding his/her own style.
The inks should more or less look like the style they were drawn
in. HOWEVER...since this is a learning exercise...sharpen
your skills however you like. Try to ink the pencils
dead on, or use different techniques to make the image in
your own style, or someone else's style or whatever.
Except for the first two images that I did in my first year, I did
every line here, free hand, with a brush. You don't have
to do it that way...and I really don't even recommend that (
there are a lot of lines here that it would have been smarter to
use a pen and straight edge...but I'm stubborn, and also to lazy
to go get a straight edge once I'm inking)
I have
an inking video up on youtube
VIDEO
HERE it is about using a brush,
but the techniques can be applied to pens as well. There a
a few short videos of me
actually inking
HERE. I may
put up another instructional video this week. Our official
instagram page is
HERE
If you wanna send what you did our way or
need a tip on something you're stuck on...
douglaspasz---a-- arseniclullaby.com
stay
tuned...more images next week!
ROUND 1
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TRY THE ARSENIC LULLABY RANDOMIZER
with the click of a button
random comics from past issues will appear on your
screen...good luck.
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CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD HI-RESOLUTION PRINTABLE IMAGE
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EXPERT LEVEL
Arsenic Lullaby "the Devil's
Only Friend" Voodoo Joe cover
This one is a lot of work, BUT
there is a lot of room for error. There is SO much going on,
visually, that little mistakes here and there just aren't going
to be noticed.
Also, because there is so
much going one and levels of depth and things obscuring
the complete view of other things...there aren't that
many really long lines to deal with.
This one is just a
marathon of getting a lot of short to small lines done
well...and just a few long nerve wracking ones. (that
head board, for example , probably isn't going to be much
fun)
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CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD HI-RESOLUTION PRINTABLE IMAGE
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ULTRA EXPERT LEVEL
Arsenic Lullaby full page
This one runs the gambit, and
it's going to test your constancy and ability to get all the
panels working together...while still conveying the different
moods of the page and affect on the reader.
When I'm doing a page
(this may or may not be great advice) I jump around, do
all of one kind of line (like short curves) then all of
another kind. Attack the page as a whole and not panel
by panel. Just keep plugging away doing the lines you
are comfortable with. Build that confidence as you
go. By the time you get to the difficult things you'll
have a lot done and a good head of stream going.
This is complicated, BUT
there is a lot for the eye to take in. Minor
mistake aren't going to be very noticeable.
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