Skillshare - Mastering Inking? Basic and Pro Techniques

Mastering Inking: Basic and Pro Techniques

Yuko Shimizu, Illustrator, Instructor at School of Visual Arts

About the Class

Ready to take your drawings up a notch? With just a few simple techniques, inking will elevate your drawings and instantly make your work more polished and professional. A good hand at inking will give you everything you need to explore comic art, traditional illustration, and worlds of high contrast.

Whether you are at the very beginning of your career and have never picked up an inking brush, are an experienced inker, or are simply curious to learn a new technique?this class will be beneficial to you! I will start from the basics of selecting the right ink, brushes, and paper at the art supply store, and then I will share with you what I consider my "secret" inking techniques.

The goal of this class is for you to utilize my basic inking skills, knowledge, and techniques to create your own work in your own original style. Although my pictures are colored digitally, inking starts with the essentials: brush on paper.

Brush drawings are the core of what makes illustrations organic, traditional, and full of movement. Exploring their properties will make you fall in love with the technique.

Establishing basic knowledge in brush and ink will allow you to be more experimental in your work and will ensure that your drawings are built on a solid foundation for the rest of your life as an illustrator or comic artist.

What You'll Learn

You will learn vector-based illustration using Adobe Illustrator's most essential tools. I will help you hone in on a whimsical illustration style. We'll cover:

• Materials. I will talk about different types of inks, brushes and papers right in the art supply store so that you can figure out what will work best for your work.

• Inking. I will show you how to maintain control over your ink and brush movements.

• Illustrating Textures. I will cover the various types of brushstroke techniques and their applications in illustration and comics.

• Process. I will show you a full start-to-finish process on how to bring your pencil sketch to a final inked piece.

What You'll Do

Project Deliverable. Create an ink drawing from a hand-drawn sketch using various inking techniques.

Description. Create a final inked illustration and share your work with the community for feedback and to understand the connection between tool selection and results.

Specs. Use the materials we explored at the art supply store (or materials from your own at home or studio) to create your illustration.

More Information

Students should have some experience with drawing and access to an art supplier (online or in person) if they wish to purchase some of the materials covered in the class.

Level: Beginner

School: Design

Related Subjects: Art, Illustration, Digital Illustration, Concept Art, Figure Drawing, Comic Art

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