#digital inks

[gutter-bunny-art]

INK DUUUUUUMP!!

[mekanikaltrifle]

He's back at it again (killing vampires for their many crimes)

[ink-pocket]

Before opening at Gus's Diner

[feathernotesart]

Some sketches I did!

[jakobos]

Inktober day 3

[adrimakesart]

Over the summer of 2021, I came across the works of socialist artist Ben Shahn and was immediately enamored with his unique style, which I then attempted to replicate via a self portrait. This was a lot of fun to draw and it came together surprisingly quickly

I'd highly recommend looking up his work if you haven't already

Done in procreate on my iPad Pro

★ adrimakes.art ★ ☆ Ko-Fi | Discord ☆

[philipreadart-blog]

I inked my Lara illustration. I'm planning on inking the sketch with traditional inks as well so this was a warm up for that.

[quilsniv]

"There are no thrones on Arakko, emperor. Pass it on."

Man you have no idea how much I wanted to do a Storm piece, especially in the X-Men Red outfit; it took me a while to figure out what kind of pose I wanted to do, but also to gain the confidence in my ability to draw it to pull it off for multiple elements.

There's a few things I want to go back and, I feel like iron out is a poor choice of words, but touching up is also not a good one; that implies there's something wrong, when I just like tinkering and I also realize that endlessly chasing perfection is somewhat pointless in art; but overall and aside from nitpicks I'm very happy in what I ended up putting out there.

Let this be a lesson in self-esteem, I guess?

[goodmode]

I absolutely love your line work in the Likewise time lapse. may I ask what program/brush / settings you use to achieve it so I can use it for my own lineart ? thank you

ah thank you! but my answer is actually pretty boring! (in an interesting way? i hope?)

i used the default CSP "Pen" > "G-Pen" brush for that. with low stabilisation so i could use my wrist a lot

the bad news is i don't use any special brush, i just use whatever comes to hand. the good news is, what you're probably noticing is my line weight! and i cheat my line weight! and you can too!

...i just go back over my lines after i'm done doing the outline. and i make it thicker and thinner depending on how much emphasis i decide i need. like this:

when i'm inking, i ink in one specific thickness, THEN i just go over/emphasise the parts i decide need to be thicker.

hopefully this helps! i really don't use any special brushes, i just go back and personally thicken the parts i need to stand out more.

i also use my line weight to imply shadow sometimes. i'm still experimenting :^)

i tend to add details (like fabric stitching, or in above, the softer/minor fur detail) in thinner lines so that they stand out much less than the main outlines. they draw less attention from the eye.

the inside of the ears are like caves with shadow in them, so i go back and add more black there to make it look like they're in more shadow.

the snout of this dog is a main facial feature, AND it's long and thus closer to the camera, so i thicken its lineart at the end to make it draw the eye to the face. i do this with human noses too sometimes

a bonus example of how the "heavy ink" pretends to be shading:

all i did for these was just add more black, but it really adds to the illusion that the stand-out pieces are casting a shadow

hope this helps somewhat! sorry i couldn't give you a simple brush to use but i really just go chunkify my lines manually. it's kinda fun! if you squint you can catch me doing exactly this on the Likewise timelapse (though because i'm used to doing this i sometimes do it on the fly. i recommend drawing a whole thing in one singular lineweight, then going back to beef-up the lines you think should be more emphasised. the trick is only beefing those bits! it is very tempting to thicken everything. remember you're playing with emphasis! which parts need GUSTO??)

[thedawner]

Have you kissed your wyrm boyfriend today?

@whoreslut-supreme suggested a Too Human Dragon!AU and IT'S SO GOOD.

[mekanikaltrifle]

doodle 1-- the most cringe 'antediluvian' of all, Augustus Giovanni

for @galacta-and-his-weird-thoughts

I can't 'Uncle Augie'??????? I CANNOT. WoD lore is fucking dumb :D

[staticblu]

Almost done coloring this one. See you Monday :) Redbubble | Twitter | DeviantArt | Instagram  

[jakobos]

Space Robot Lady. Idk man I need to draw something everyday, they can't all be interesting!

[obuza-ba]

A for #AlphabetSuperset abandoned and alone

[barbarakaalberg]

[philipreadart-blog]

A good day of comic inking!