[Dekard]

I have used Sharpie Fine Point, Sharpie Ultra fine point, which are okee.. but usually bleed on the section when you put the point to the paper.

I have used the Micron 08 black markers with .50 mm line width and 03 with .35mm line width.

Here's my dilemma, I want to add the depth of what alot of I see in other artists drawings but am not sure how to get those results.

Here's an example of one of my characters inked:
http://web.tampabay.rr.com/jeremy/artwork/

My sketch is a_newsketch and Agent44's is rocketboy.jpg.

**Notice how my lines are the same width throughout the drawing and Agent44's has differing width and thickness throughout the drawing? What kind of pen would accomplish this? The thicker sharpies can have this effect but on a larger scale and not as clean looking..

Any ideas? I'd like to think I might have a decent future in drawing but can't get over this stumbling block? Thanks for any advice you guys can give me in this department. Thanks in advance!

Dekard


**Sorry for the misleading post but nobody answered my other post because I replied to it so it looked like someone answered it so everyone ignored it. I would of deleted it but I couldn't due to this boards limitations.

Thanks for the help!

[Freddio]

please refrain from using tastless, topics to attain replies..

Your art looks great, you can scan it in and play around with the line thicknesses in illustrator..

take a look.. http://www.loonygames.com/content/1.31/pop/

[Steven Stahlberg]

I don't know exactly how Agent44 did his, but when I do stuff like this I just draw twice where it needs to be thicker. Or 3 times, whatever. With a pen that is running out you can also get varying thickness by pressing harder.

[Dekard]

Thanks for the illustrator tips and the going over twice stuff, didn't think about that, I figured it was just a pen maybe caligraphy pen or something similiar. :/

And I apologized about the topic, but nobody looked at the previous thread, and I couldn't delete it. Again, sorry.

[Impaler]

Get a drawing pen (crowquill), foo. They're just nibs, stuck in a plastic or wooden holder. You dip them in ink.

You can get an extremely varying array of line thickness with one nib, depending on quality of the nib, as well as the ink.

I used to use ball point pens for inking, but they're just cold and ass-backwards. Drawing pens are only slightly more expensive, and they last for 25 years.

GO! BUY!

[Malachi Maloney]

I'm old school with my inking. I use Rapidograph pens in a bunch of different sizes and as Steven said, I go over the parts I want thicker 2 or more times.

MDM

[Daniel Lieske]

Also, try to use a sable hair brush with black india ink. That�ll give you great lineweights thou it�s a bit tricky to handle!

[Dekard]

Ok, cool I did the import into streamline.. that's some cool stuff! Looks 100x better. Nice shortcut, I will tweak the line width too as stated above. Check out the finished version, it's not a master piece but I just wanted to see how it would work out.

Thanks guys
http://web.tampabay.rr.com/jeremy/artwork/

a_newsketch2.jpg is the new one.

Thanks

[Lemur-X]

Rapidographs for consistency's sake.

Pilot Extra fine for roughs.

[MadSamoan]

Like Daniel Lieske mentioned earlier, you could try sable hair brushes, Windsor Newton Series 7, in particular. They're expensive (15 bucks or so) and you need to test the brushes carefuly to make sure it keeps a fine point. You can't just grab any sable brush from off the shelf. Also, the bigger the brush, the better.