Traditional or Digital Inks?

[matsuikenshin]

I'm actually quite weird in a way since a lot of people are one way or the other. So to answer your question, I prefer to ink digitally. Funny thing is I can't sketch at all on the computer and I am also very bad at traditional inking... I end up drawing traditionally and then bringing it into the computer to ink. I'll always practice traditional inking but digital inking is what I lean towards

[Kayke]

When I ink digitally I draw in photoshop! I've never been good at doing anything other than design stuff in illustrator, it always ends up feeling really stiff to me?

[matsuikenshin]

I find that the pen tool in illustrator is really good for tracing lines but if you wanted to change something it is harder than changing it in manga studio

[garretgalligher]

Huh... well, then it's probably my hand. Goes to show I have a long way to go in improvement!
Thanks for getting back to me about that!

[phillip000515]

I honestly ink digitally than traditionally. While my traditional ink is better pretty much the reason I'm inking digitally is because I just wanna get better at it on the digital side of art. I'm getting used to it but I find it fun.

[GFalconDX]

I've always preferred digital inking because it's easier to correct if I made a mistake. But I am also good at traditional inking just in case if I need to ink a pencil drawing at a convention or if I am doing a traditional drawing.

Here's some examples of both digital and traditional inking that I've done. The 1st image is digital, while the 2nd one is traditional.

[mangapingvinen]

I like to use digital ink better! It's easier to redo if you drawed a wrong line
Coloring gets faster too with a digital lineart! ^v^

[ghostnxs]

Kyle Webster's brushes are amazing, those are the brushes that I use. I used his brushes for these and tried to make them look as traditional as possible.

[sophiekaldinski]

I really like both, but I started doing nearly all my inks digitally a year ago or so. I prefer rougher brushes that look more like actual ink on paper though, because for me personally inking on paper has a more natural flow to it. So I was pretty fast getting new brushes, when I first started with Clip Studio Pro.
One of the main reasons I switched to digital inking is, that it´s faster and you have more room to correct things.
The downside is that I find it kinda hard to put accents on my linework, when working digitally.

Inked digitally in Clip Studio:

Inked traditionally with G-pen and Maru-pen (for a watercolor illustration):

[ghostnxs]

I like your traditional inking

[simonjfletcher]

I also draw like this, and I thought I was the only one! It does bring some troubles when inking - I have tried to change the habit to no avail but perhaps it is what makes... us.... different....

I ink traditionally with a hunt nib or with various brush pens (kuretake fine black brush pen is my fav), some random Japanes brush pens and occasionally a brush.

But if I can recommend few great photoshop inking brushes which I have used successfully - from Kyle T Webster's Megapack. They are called Bad Ass Inking Brush #1 & #2, the Belgian inking brush, Mr Natural Brush and Amazing Cartoon nib #1 & #2 are my favourites, you should check them out, you can buy them here: https://gumroad.com/kyletwebster

[MylCreates]

I'd try digital inking if I could, but I don't have a tablet, so I hand ink everything with sharpies and drafting pens. I then scan them in and color all the shadows, textures, etc by good ol' mouse

I draw in pencil, then start outlining

Then I add line weights

I usually ink with grey markers or go straight to scanning and coloring

And usually end up with something like this:

I wish I had a tablet sometimes so I could try painting realistic paintings, which are so difficult when you don't have tablet!!!! ene

[M.Idea]

In fact, I find work on Digital Inking somewhat difficult, because it requires that you sit behind the screen for hours and you have to use a digital graphic device such as Wacom Intus Comic in order to be able to give an acceptable fee to viewers.

I like the traditional painting because I can control better, but when it comes to drawing Comic or Webtoon you have to deal with digital drawing because you have to work on the backgrounds as well.

Both have pros and cons, I think we need to practice using digital inks a bit more.

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[Rhonder]

I'm actually on the boundary between the two currently. The comic that I'm drawing currently uses traditional inks and digital coloring, because earlier this year when I was getting started on it I had 0 confidence in my digital inking skills, so it was faster and looked better to just ink traditionally.

However fast forward a year, I've improved my digital inking skills a lot and now find myself wishing I was inking digitally to save time. As is, it's faster to resize and tweak the sketch digitally, don't have to erase after inking, don't have to scan, don't have to get rid of the white around the lines, don't have to worry about eraser residue from the scan, etc. I'm committed to finishing this project with the traditional inks but I'll def be moving to all digital for the next one!

That said I still do love working in traditional mediums. I'll still be busting out my inks for illustrations and stuff. But as far as something like a comic goes, that requires super fast, super efficient work... I think a lot of time can be saved with digital xD