Back in the early days of comics, pencil lines were too light to be picked up by the cameras used to replicate comic art. So, artists used brush or pen and black ink to render over the pencil lines and make them dark enough for the cameras to pick up. Inking has become an art in and of itself. Clip Studio Paint has some of the best inking tools in the digital art world, packaged with it when you purchase the software. There are also a multitude of third-party inking tools available for either free or purchase that provide specialty inking tools that give different looks and feels to inked lines.
In this chapter, we are going to talk about the following topics:
- Principles of inking
- Inking tools
- Inking on Vector layers
- Modifying the Pencil layer to simulate inks
Let's get started!
