Showing posts with label inking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label inking. Show all posts

Friday, September 14, 2012

Inking: Hierarchy of Head Outline and Details


The rest of the face Here:

Inking Tips: Weight, Wrapping Details Around Forms

I am finding that a lot of artists who want to assist and ink for me are struggling with the same problems. So rather than me giving the same notes to every artist, It would save a lot of time and trouble for me to just give the notes to everyone.
Here is an ink that on the surface looks clean. However it is also too flat - for me. The drawing has been inked line by line - as if the lines exist by themselves and this makes the characters look cold and stiff.
WEIGHT:
Here are some tips. Let's start with giving forms some weight - by putting a heavier line underneath each form.
WRAP the LINES, DON'T CUT THROUGH FORMS
Then give the lines FORM by wrapping the lines around the construction.

CONNECTIONS:


Be careful where one form connects to another as well - like where the legs and arms connect to the torso. They

Monday, September 10, 2012

Any Toonboom Inkers Familiar with my style?

Hi folks

I'm getting started on the cartoon here.

If you have already inked some of my characters in the past and can use Toonboom Animate I might have some scenes for you to work on.

[ink_05.jpg]Here are some inking tips:
http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/2008/11/inking-advanced-pt-1-logical-line.html
I had a good post on how to ink faces - using inks by the amazing Brian Romero, but the images seem to have disappeared from the page. They must have been from a blog post of his that he has since deleted.

http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/2008/11/inking-emotional-line-weight.html