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Published: 2008-09-12 21:33:32 +0000 UTC; Views: 1736; Favourites: 20; Downloads: 112
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Here's a quick 'step by step' look at this piece, from initial rough sketch to completed inks - thought you'd like it. The pencils are a little looser than they'd be if I handed them off to someone else to ink, but since it was myself, well I left all the inking challenges for the inker! Someone once said to ink backgrounds first, as lightly as possible, then do the mid/foreground work and use those lineweights to pop the piece. Good advice.Related content
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I love it! I can't wait to buy one from you next con.
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i like the second page best, very raw, loving that one most
awesome
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hey brother may you answer me something, when you put that paper on the sketch it has to a thin paper, the ink don't pass through it??
I was watching a Joe Weems DVD and he was doing the same thing, so I got curious
it is a special paper * sorry I'm a newbie
I gonna fave this and the finish one....
so amazing details, the shadows of the tentacles are so freaking cool
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Hey no problem - actually, it's all the same paper - I ink directly over my own pencils. The paper is a smooth plate surfaced 3-ply 11x17 Bristol, usually Strathmore or Canson. I prefer the smooth finish when I'm going to ink a piece.
If I were inking someone else's pencils, and just had a photocopy, I usually drop the paper thickness down to 2-ply so it can pass through a copy machine bypass, and make a blue-line or non-photo blue copy at Kinko's and ink on that - again, smooth plate surface is preferred when I ink.
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thank you 
I usually use Canson, here where I live is hard to find everything so I have to work with I have
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Ah, it looks lighter because I messed with the light/dark levels in photoshop for the scan to give you a better idea of where I was laying down ink vs. where it was still just pencils.
The 3H lead is pretty light though too. I bumped up the darkness on the first 2 images to clarify the pencils.
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