What Brushes to use for a Similar Inking Style?

[LaTor]

Hi,

I’m starting to learn how to ink since I’m interested in creating a new webcomic. While I was on the internet, I found these references that I really like, and I’ve tried to recreate the style to no avail. I wanted to know if someone knew what brushes in Krita could recreate this inking style?

Thank you for your time,
L'aTor

[TedGravesArt]

This just looks like your standard round brush to me. I don't even see any texture applied. Judging by the strokes they have pressure-controlled tip size on, and maybe some pressure-controlled flow/opacity.

What makes these drawings great is how the artist draws their lines, not the brush they're using. They've got loose quick strokes, and a firm understanding of the fundamentals, like form and movement. They're also good at not overthinking what they're doing, and that results in a pleasant looking flow to their work.
I hate to say it, but no brush in the world will give you a look like this. Getting your work to look like this requires many years of training and hard work.

[LostKelp]

it could be a marker or a square brush, those tend to have this kind of size variation - I don't use krita so I wouldn't be able to tell you but it's not particularly textured so I don't think it's all that special - if you want to get this effect then you should experement with pen pressure to see what you can come up with.

[LaTor]

Thank you for your help and time! I'll work hard to be able to achieve a similar and hopefully a great comic. I'll be experimenting and trying different things.

Thank you to you both!

[RedLenai]

At first glance this seems to be the average ol' classic round brush to me.

What I seem to notice is that there are a lot of plays of lines and solid usage of black shadows and high-contrast. At the same time that there are quite the change of the brush size to make details and other things.

But with further detail, it seems that the brush may have a bit of a specific setting since in certain areas the "dark" areas are not as dark, there seems to have a little bit of texture and opacity feature to it. Of course, while there seems to be a tiny bit of texture in the brush, great part of the inking technique resides on the usage of short lines. So I would recommend practicing a bit the short line technique and probably a marker brush to have a bit of that "ink discharge" effect.

[LaTor]

Thank you @RedLenai for your help, but I'm a little confused on the short line technique. Do you that each stroke is actually a short, quick line that you later go over to darken it or connect it to another short line, like feathering the line rather than in one stroke?

I'm having a bit of an issue with finding an "ink discharge" brush in Krita, could you recommend one, if you know of a brush that could get a similar effect?

Also, what specific setting do you believe the brush has? The opacity is still dark but slightly different, which I'm having a hard time recreating.

Thank you for your time and help.

[RedLenai]

Do you that each stroke is actually a short, quick line that you later go over to darken it or connect it to another short line, like feathering the line rather than in one stroke?

I believe so, especially in this area.

I'm having a bit of an issue with finding an "ink discharge" brush in Krita, could you recommend one, if you know of a brush that could get a similar effect?

Sadly I do not use Krita, neither I know how to modify settings on it. I believe the best way to mimick the ink discharge would be to try to go to the brush settings, and lower the opacity of the brush. I have a brush that has a bit of a similar result on Clip Studio, so by analyzing it. There seems to be less opacity on the brush's ends and a bit of a spaced classic circle brush, the pure black concentrating in the center.

I've tried recreating a bit the style with the brush that I believe is the closets to what we're looking for, but I still won't know. I believe this one has a little bit of "transparency" compared to the one you're looking

[LaTor]

Thank you for taking the time to help me!

I tried recreating the brush in Krita, the inking result looks a bit different.

Brush Settings:

Thank you for the time you spent on helping me, it means a lot to me

[RedLenai]

Your welcome! To be honest, you made a very close replica of said brush. I believe that with a few tweaks you can even have a better result, but hey no need to rush!

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