Pencils to Ink question.

#1

How do you manage your pencils to inks.

Do you do it manually, or do you do get some program to automatically trace it with vectors after a scan, OR do you digitally ink it yourself and with what software. And if you do it manually do you use vectors or raster/pixels/bitmap (just trying to get one term right at least >_>)

How do you clean up your pencils for scanning and inking. And at what resolution do you scan AND work at.

In conclusion what are all your steps for handling the pencil to inks thing.

I have my own way, which is no planning at all, I just scan it and as I go I make up stuff, but I don’t like this because it’s so slow. I need a plan. I know one thing I like is lowering opacity of upscaled thumbnails, then printing that and detailing it. And Manga Studio inking but I want other opinions.

Thanks.

#2

I’m not quite sure what you mean by, managing pencils to ink.
I do everything digitally including drawing/sketching. I do line art either in Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator depending on my end goal.

As for as traditional work, I used to do a sketch on paper, put it on my light table and do finished line work, using Micron markers or Rapidograph pens, on smooth Bristol or CS-10 paper (not sure of CS10 availability anymore) taped over the sketch.

As far as scanning resolution, I always scan at 300 dpi as a rule of thumb, as I am an illustrator and most of what I do is for print media.

#3

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