INK STUDY #15 BRUSH

 I want to practice more Brush inking, and I keep forgetting that I shouldn't draw on textured paper..the ink really doesn't flow well, and then you can't get nice lines without running out of ink. SO note to self, practice on BRISTOL board!

This is the same image btw, I just blew up the contract on the above to make it look white.

INK STUDY #14 Buscema

Drew this on the crappy paper and filled blacks with a sharpie. 

INK STUDY #13 - Buscema - PEN NIB

 Back to the pen nib on this one from a. Conan comic, this one was inked by Ernie Chan. I'm still deciding whose ink work I like best on Buscema's Conan work. And I think after Big John himself, I really like Ernie Chan's work the most. He seemed to get better as he went along, dong some really dynamic ink work later on this run.

Of course my own copy is terrible as always, practice makes better! The aim is to do 50 of these.

I always include the pencil sketch, to show that I don't really do a very cleaned up study, just enough detail to work on top with the pen. 

Last step I used the Sharpie for the blacks, the original piece had interesting texture which I tried to replicate

INK STUDY #12 Buscema - Brush

 Too tired today to do a study, so I rushed it.  Used some really, really old Tipp-Ex on those lines that crossed over.

INK STUDY 11 : J. Buscema

 NEW TOOL!

I bought a little set of Watercolour brushes in smaller sizes, 0, 2 and 4. Below I sampled the zero brush, which seems to be the right size for this sketchbook (an A5 size - Bristol paper). Though I still cheaped out on using SHARPIE for the black fills.

So if you are struggling with this. Remember: 

1 - Work on Bristol board paper! 2 - Get a small sized watercolour brush for smaller pages! 

INK STUDY #9

 Got too eager to erase, and the ink wasn't dry yet, so it smudged :/

INK STUDY #8

 This one is done with a nib pen. basically brush vs nib seems to depend on the size/detail of the drawing. If you look at a comic book from the 70s, the artists drew 4 times that size, so if it looks like brush and you draw roughly the same size of the comic, you'll have a really hard time! :P 

There we go, line drawing complete, the rest I leave to my sharpie.

Learning how to ink : Brush

This is proving really hard for me, learning how to ink. I am not too bad with a pen, but with brush I am terrible :P Part of it, I think is that I work on crappy, textured paper. They always recommend Bristol board, so I'll try and get a Bristol pad specifically for ink.

I started by doing these marks from the book: How to draw the Marvel Way. This is where I noticed the ink doesn't come out very well on this paper...that, and I suck :P

I then did a practice page on a figure (Loki drawn by Buscema)

INK STUDY : Brush Practice

 I think of all the tools I'll probably enjoy the brush the most, but just need to get some practice with it. Shaky line control and I often don't have enough ink or too much. I like the thicker line weight though.

This is a study of a panel by Gene Colan (inked by Dick Ayers)