Sunnyville Stories

Picking up from where we left off last time, I’ll show you how I continue inking comics once I’ve inked the letters, panels, and speech balloons.  Next comes a big part – doing the lineart.

I’ve explained that my primary inking tool is the nib pen.  On occasion, I do make use of the technical pen or the brush (I’ll talk more about that next time).  But by and large, I stick to nibs for drawing.  The workhorse of my drawing nibs is the Speedball 513.  It’s a bowl-shaped point and unlike many of the other points used for drawing comics like a Hunt 102 and 107, it doesn’t have much in the way of flexibility.  However, I still find the lines very organic compared to that of a fixed-width pen (like a marker or Rapidograph).

If the situation calls for it, I’ll use a Speedball A5 nib (a fixed-width nib meant for lettering) or a Speedball 512, similar to the 513 nib but not as thick of a line.

From there, I will ink all the characters first.  Once that’s finished, the background and its contents therein gets inked.  For those, I use a 0.50mm Rapidograph.  If I need to show something in the distance really faraway like mountains, I’ll use either a Uniball or a Hunt 107 nib.  Anyway, here’s what the inked lines look like.   Continue reading →