I do both and use whichever looks best....sometimes it's digital, sometimes it's traditional...
I love both and have a hard time deciding which to use...I sometimes do an amalgam or composite of the two
looks good....
I like a good size zero brush and sumi ink...sometimes use india ink...nothing too fancy
I do! For Malleus Maleficarum1, I ink traditionally but do the rest(toning etc) digitally. Traditional tools of trade - G pen, maru and saji pens : )
It's all traditional for me, but I like experimenting a lot with my tools.
But I mainly use the Kuretake brush pen and varies it with my Pilot Brush Pen which are both great for getting "alive" lines.
99% of my drawings are traditional and the 1% is basic editing in Photoshop. I use The Kuretake maru and G pen, Micronpens, and Copics when i color stuff.
here my set
brush own different size. the middle its quite good, i like it.
about the dip pens, the bigwhite it's the one i use 99% of the time. the small gray it's even harder then the bigwhite... on the left ive got a big dip, but i dont like too much, the mark it's too big for my taste.
about the inks... the small bottle its the one with the ink. the big bottle own only water because the 951 winsor its too damn thick ffs!!!!!
Wow so much reply. Wow so much reply! Thanks for joining in the discussion. Didn't expect that! Seems like there's a fair bit of people inking in tradition medium be it pens, nibs or brushes. I use to do crow quills.(see below) But I haven't found it suitable for my comic thus I'm using brushes. I also use to ink in Winsor Newton brushes but they no longer make the good ones so I've switched to brush pen which is much more useful in conventions especially doing commissions.
@shazzbaa I'm always impress by ballpoint pen inkers cos I've no idea how they do the thick and thin lines! So much patience!
@apocryphagraphics Hats off to you! Crowquill for the details right?! Are you using an old W&N series 7 brush? The new ones I bought are bad....
@mg78 Wow really loving your comic. Its AWESOME! Can you post more? Already subscribed... I like the flow and can feel the energy from each of your panels. Love it!
@ashriott I've heard so much about G pen and Maru! Hmmm.. maybe I should try one out. Wish I know how to use tones!
would you do a test?
1) draw what u want.
2) scan it
3) finish the work with ink (only ink, so b/w)
4) do it again with the digital ink (only digital ink, so b/w)
then lets see how digital trasform our works... im already doing, but im totally newbie in the digital, so... would be nice to see other where can do...
what do u think?
i would, events dont allow me :F
and im a lot lazy -_-
I ink traditionally as well. I've tried doing it digitally and I think I could eventually get the hang of it (my hand gets really shaky) but my biggest issue is proportions. If I zoom out to see the whole page everything's too small and I can't get it right and if I zoom in I have an issue getting everything sized correctly.
I've used micron pens a lot and still use them for detail but I recently switched to the pentel pocket brush for the actual inking and I really like it a lot! I'm still getting the hang of it but I really like the way it looks.
I ink my comic Alone traditionally and then add tones and effects digitally.
I use a Pentel Pocket Brush Pen and Sharpies/Faber-Castell pens for borders and lettering. On this page, I also used a few paintbrushes to get some more textures:
Then I go into Photoshop to add tones and finish it up:
Yes, I ink traditionally. I use Faber-Castell liners. (0,3 for panels and 0,1 for everything else), than I do the tones or coloring digitally. 
This is amazing, I think the black and whites are very good. I'm noto sure if its my screen (probably is) the washes and blacks is making everything very dark on the painted piece. It could also be the fact that the image is being resized so small on the post. I really like your inks as a standalne especially the female face and expression comes out so much clearer. Might be just me!
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I drew my first ever comic with ballpoint pen, but it never looked that clean! I really respect that choice, great job!
I ink with nibs and a brush now, but I'm really new at it so I'm still working out the details.
I also ink traditionally. I actually go over all my materials in this blog post.
But tldr, all the brushes and the Pitt Artist Ink Brush pen I use are listed on there 
I use this for everything except the panelborders. Have never inked anything digitally. Simply because I'm very old fashioned.
It is called the G-Pen Zebra. It feels very precise and sturdy, and can make both very fine and reasonably thick lines. And they last for ages. They sometimes feel a bit scratcy when they are brand new, but that goes away once you break them in.
If my perception is correct, it seems like it is one of the more popular nibs among the manga artists.
For the panelborders I have an old wornout Hunt 513. 
It is a bowlpoint nib, so it feels very smooth and makes very consistent lines.
When it comes to brushes I use whatever I can get a hold of. Mostly the equivalent of a 2 sized Winsor & Newton brush. When they start to split I cut of the stray hairs. My favourite right now is a cheap, white Japanese brush which hardly have any hairs left on it.
When it comes to the ink itself, I have to types that I usually stick to. For the pens I like Speedball. It flows very good of he nib, and dries immediately. And it is pretty cheap. So I usually draw all lines and hatching, mark of the areas that will be solid black, and erase all the pencils. And then start brushing. The reason I do that is because I don't like how the Speedball ink acts with the brush. So for the brushing I like to use the Winsor & Newton India ink. It covers the paper much better an looks much more solid. But it takes longer time to dry and smudges much more easily. Thats where the white gouache comes in handy.
Also tried a Japanese ink once called Super black. It worked really good in bigger solid black areas. Looked very even and solid. Almost looked like a rubbery skin on top of the paper. But it gummed up the nibs a bit. They also make a white out called Super white that works very good. But I accidentally left mine out in the freezing cold winter, and it started crystallizing.
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