Love that you do real time tutorials! I'm always looking for real time so that I can really see truely how people work! Definitely going to check out your other stuff! Also adorable designs!
Your inked line art is amazing. Most inking process videos that I've watched show the artist drawing a line, lifting their pen/stylus, then building up their line weight with subsequent, additional strokes. You, however, change your line weight within a single stroke. That's really impressive, and it's something I struggle a lot with!
Dude like...i Love you. You know a lot of people tend to post #tutorials but yours, this one and the how to digital paint are saving my life, you dont know how much i have to thank you
+gabos993 Ah thanks! I'm starting up a new channel that will pretty much focus solely on tutorials and walk throughs so it's good to hear that this kinda thing is helpful.
Up until this moment I did not know inking was different from the standard Lineart so I never understood how someone could draw their line and undo till it's perfect with pressure in the lines, I can now improve my skills with the correct mindset.
This video has been the starting point for me getting into inking. I just gotta find a better brush and work on my pressure skills. I really appreciate it. Thanks bro!
The biggest lie I was told by teachers and classmate in elementary school was don't trace!, tracing is the best way to to enhance muscle memory, then you can draw everything from the imagination.
Real helpful video good sir! I was too meticulous on my inking till I watched this. I was just wondering what kind of software would you advise to use for inking on OS X?
Thank you so much for doing this with Photoshop and a default brush so basic schlubs like me can get the gist of digital inking. This was very helpful. (Also, HELL YES ROTATING CANVAS!!)
I draw on both platforms (though mind you Im not Luis Royo or Simon Bisley good) and I could never get clean ink lines traditionally yet still I can ink on it but from what I heard its great to train with fine art brushes that are fine tipped or so. con about inking traditionally is that it can be a bit messy. With digital artwork I can ink and have no mess but I don't seem to get those smooth lines I see alot of talented ones seem to have, am I missing a trick or something. Jamie what would be the best resolution to get ink lines that don't have that "Gray" blurry edges to them. Im a self taught artist that likes to game and draw (began getting back to art when I was in my 2nd year of High school back in 2001). I use tablets, Cintiq (just recently upgraded from cintiq12WX to 21UX, though I don't want to splurge all my money on the 22HD since Ill wait for the price of the 27QHD to lower down after a few years).
You're much better at explaining this in a steady, digestible manner; and you actually show what the hell you're doing and why you chose to do it. Some artists have a tendency to babble about the multiplicity of options and forget that they're *trying* to show the basics, or just one method, so the whole video becomes tangential and convoluted.
Those lines are so smooth?!?! Mine are choppy and i get pretty much zero variation in pressure sensitivity... I think it's my cheap graphics tablet... I have to press extremely lightly to get a slight variation and i can't have a smooth thin end to a line like you have here... It's also extremely choppy if I was just doing a line zoomed out
What are these brush settings? I'm new to Photoshop and the inking brushes I try to make never really reflect the pressure I use (the lines don't have much variation)
Jessica Wang, have you tried changing the settings in your tablet driver ? You can change the pressure needed (via some curves usually) to get 100% of the brush effect. It can be a good start.
How can I draw hard lines ? Whatever I select from the brush tools, I always end up with my brush is fading out. I'm using Photoshop C6. I can only draw murky lines. PLEASE HELP ME OUT!
I'm not entirely sure without seeing what you're working with, but there should be a brush in that version called Hard Round. That should work like a regular inking brush. It's been a while since I've used CS6, but also make sure you're using brush and not pencil or whatever else is hiding in the brush tool. I think if you hit shift+B for a while it'll switch between brush, pencil, something else, and then back to brush. I think.
Frenden's Manga Studio brushes are great. The only downside is that some of them require advanced tablet features, like pen tilt and rotation. Great if you have a tablet capable of it, useless if not. And the only way to know if a brush requires those features or not, is to just test it out yourself. My biggest issue with digital inking is stuff like feathering and line weight. I'm not too bad on paper, but on a table, I have a hard time with getting lines to be the thickness I want. I end up making them too thick or too thin. I also have a hard time changing my brush sizes. Like, I get a setting I like, I don't wanna mess it up by changing it's size. "The downside of undo is that you get used to it and spend a while getting your lines perfect when they don't need to be.".......yep. Sounds like me. I redraw lines over and over again until I like them.
Those lines look remarkably crisp! Were you just using the hard round brush, or do you have particular settings? (Other than shape dynamics set to pen pressure.)
Cool video! at the start you said you wouldn't recommend using the standard photoshop brush, what kind of brush do you recommend? (apart from the paid one you mentioned)
This sucker was done years ago when Kyle Webster was not employed by Adobe. Now, all of Kyle's brushes are available for free if you're a creative cloud subscriber which, I know, is a big pain in the ass. But his photoshop brushes are really great. I like the Rough Inker Comics because it has a lot grit to it. Has those dirty bleed things that you might get if you're inking real paper. I also like the Blake for thinner detail lines and some dry brushing. Those are my favorite two Photoshop brushes.
I'm really enjoying your channel so far. Most art tutorials out there are so pretentious, it makes them hard to watch... I'm also kinda new to Manga Studio, and yeah, the inking is way better. would like to see some tutorials from you on there.
How do you get your lines so tapered? I've tried playing around with my brushes in Photoshop, but whenever I want a tapered line like this, it's still so blunt at the ends. My pen pressure is on and everything.
Try updating your drivers? Which is something everyone always says, but every once in a while that happens to me. First I check drivers, then I unplug/replug, then i restart my computer. Usually one of those does it. The other thing to check is the brush itself. Go to the Brush palette and check out Brush Tip Shape. In Shape Dynamics, make sure Pen Pressure is activated. Hope this helps.
For this particular demo, I use all the default settings. So the brush is the regular hard round brush and I'm using default pressure settings and all that. You can get really deep into the brush settings these days. This demo is from an older version of photoshop so there are much better inking brushes now thanks to Kyle Weber's sets. But everything in this demo is default.
I had to stop watching your tutorial at 13:56 because you rotated the image like four times. While I did find it helpful, I do get motion sick very easily and had to resort to listening only to the audio. Thank you for posting the video. I watch a lot of different people and you mention some things I can do. I also find it helpful that you aren't just voicing over a speed paint as I always walk away from them feeling like I'm a slowpoke. It just helps me keep perspective on how much time cool stuff takes. Keep up the awesome work. :)
Aw, sorry about that. I don't realize how fast I rotate things when I'm in the thick of it but I can definitely see how that could throw someone off who isn't ready for it. I usually get motion sick as well so there must be something about doing the rotation yourself rather than watching someone else.
Cintiq Companion, though it's not necessary for this kind of work. Oh, I'm answering from my other account. But a nice little intuos or something similar can do the trick.
Well, I started a new channel specifically for my art tutorials. But then I got super busy drawing a graphic novel sooooo I kinda fell off the tutorial game. but I'm hoping to bring it back sooooooon. Here's my other channel th-cam.com/channels/P7zH8cjkIQPwjjpxUPilBA.html
I don't know much about the Huion products, but there are some great reviews by this guy, Frenden. He's also pretty active on twitter and responds to artists with questions about tablets frenden.com/tagged/review
i have a problem with my cintuq. when i use touch screen to move the drawing aorund for inking the draw doesn't move and the compass sign doesnt appear neither. what do i do?
Could be a couple of things. 1. If your document's color mode is bitmap, every line with be very pixelated either black or white. 2. Sometimes you might accidentally be using the pencil tool instead of the brush tool. That happens to me every once in a while if I push B too many times. Anything you draw with the pencil tool will be very pixelated. 3. If the layer you're working on is somehow set to Dissolve, the lines will look pixelated. 4. Uh, if you're zoomed really far in for some reason, things can look pixelated because photoshop is a rasther program. Those are just off the top of my head. Let me know if any of that was helpful or if you still have a problem. This can be very frustrating when things don't work the way they should.
I usually have anti aliasing on when I'm inking things myself. It really depends on the output. If you're working at 300 or 400 dpi for print, turning aliasing off will be okay since the printer will just kinda smoosh it all together. If you want to output to the web, taking a 300 dpi piece and downsizing to 72 will also smoosh everything so your lines will look smooth.
Hold down the R key and you can rotate. When you let go, the canvas will stop rotating and you can use whatever tool you were using before you rotated.
Hi, thank you very much for the video! It's a great explication and good to see how you work. Would you mind to help me out posting your inspirations? I did not quite understand them in the video. Thank you very much :-)
Off the shelf, I think you're correct. The default Manga Studio brushes are amazing for inking. I've had to get a whole mess of artist brushes to get the same feel in Photoshop. Frenden and Kyle brushes are both excellent for photoshop inking. Frenden also makes a great set for Clips/Manga whatever it's called these days as well as a set that he's optimizing for the iPad Pro version of Clips.
I think if I remember correctly, this is an older version of photoshop so I'm using just the standard hard round brush with a pressure sensitive tablet. I think this was done on a cintiq. It's been a while.
I have a Wacom Intuos tablet. I imagine your Cintiq Companion gives you no trouble. The problem I am having is that I can't get my pen and tablet to draw very well. I do far better with a mouse. What should I do? I'm not sure if it's me or the Intuos.
I'm not sure. I always check to see if I'm running the latest drivers if I'm running into a tablet problem. If your problem isn't a hardware/software issue and it's just taking a while to get that hang of it, that's all about practice. Honestly, took me a few months to get the hang of a regular Intuos. And now that I'm regularly using a Cintiq, I can't go back to the Intuos. So I don't think it's you. It's either a hardware/software or practice issue.
Im using an intuos medium. But i struggle with inking a lot. I find it very difficult to draw good lines with it. They all come out a bit "jerky" exept when i draw them very quickly. (note that im very good with pencils not digitally.) Is the cintiq that much better? your lines look much smoother. puu.sh/jbkDP/8cb0c98d10.jpg here is an example. puu.sh/iIexP/ae7ce9136d.jpg and here is my pencil stuff.
***** The Cintiq won't make your inked lines any better. It has the same levels of pressure as an Intuos. Honestly, it really just takes a lot of practice and patience. In general, for longer lines and straight lines, I usually use broad, quick strokes. It's slightly different when working on paper. I usually ink very very slowly, especially if I'm pulling a longer line. But I feel like there's a lot of jitter working digitally when you move slowly so it really shows up in those longer lines. For shorter lines and little fiddly details, going slowly works out decently. Another good trick is to work way big, bigger than you intend on presenting the final image. My files are usually 600dpi and at least 3000 pixels on a side. If you zooooooom in on the inks, some of the lines are pretty rough and gross, but when you print them out or reduce for the web, that gets rid of any jitter. Also, I absolutely hate inking in Photoshop. Manga Studio is my inking program of choice. It smooths out the digital jitter ever so slightly so your inks are nice and crisp. Hope some of this helps!
Jamie Noguchi yeah it does. :) i was also thinking about vector graphics just for inking, because it is my nightmare basically. Everything else is fine. But generally it feels like simply painting without any inking is better with a graphic tablet.
In Photoshop, Sai, GIMP and other software, there are line tools where you basically make a lot of dots along the sketch you've already made. In Photoshop it's called the Pen tool. It's would be tedious to use it for small details or crosshatching. It would also be tedious to color with a mouse.
Hey :) realy cool Video and artwork. what Kind of brush you use? I can not find a brush like this and I am freaking out cause my outlines look so horible xD
The brush I use is just the hard round with pen pressure to control the size. This is also an old ass version of Photoshop so Kyle Brushes at that time were not included. For actual work, I use a number of the Kyle Brushes inking brushes because they give me the closest feel to inking with actual brushes. Frenden (frenden.com) also makes some great brush sets for Clips and Photoshop and a few other digital art programs out there.
@@blueclift5582 Ah, thanks! I kinda moved all my art stuff to my other art channel, th-cam.com/users/drawjam, but I still have a bunch of older stuff here that gets some views. I try to respond to questions if I can answer them! Thanks for checking em out!!
Oh man, sorry! I'll try to do some more slower beginner type things on my other channel. I've been slammed with work lately so it's gonna take a bit to get back to these.
That is FUDGING UGLY. And that's a hell of a compliment. There's something about that thing that just looks foul. Maybe its the mini-manga in it's head. =) Just out of curiosity, have you or do you ink people? Like trying to ink out people and convey the contours of their body? Not necessarily going for ultra photo realism (though that would be cool) but for a pseudo comic book representation of a humanbeing. I'm having a terrible time trying to ink the subtle shadows that fall along the body, from facial contours such as the lips and muscles. Not man muscles but the inconspicuous female muscles.
Christopher Funk Just as an example, you can check this out: sergeastahov.com/images/DigitalSculpting/FemaleBodyFrontBack_lrg_Thb.jpg If you look at the torso and see the shaded areas that depict the muscles and bone underneath, that's what I'm talking about. Would you just block that in and then vary the hatching? You know, to accurately depict it? So almost realistic? The pure blacks are easy. It's the grays that I struggle with. Hatching, everything, looks awful. =(
Christopher Funk depends. If I'm doing black and white, I'd probably use some thin crosshatching lines to define some of that musculature. If I'm coloring it, I might do very thin lines to define the lower part of the muscles and then define it with more clarity in color.
Jamie Noguchi Yeah. I'm going to experiment with that and see what I can get out of it. I can nail it perfectly with pencil but squib it with ink. Pencil is cake. Ink is a mystery. I think I'll just have to fine tune it until it comes out right. I was inking traditionally (no computer) but I can't handle ruining another drawing. Such a loss of time. Anyway, thanks for the advice!
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Love that you do real time tutorials! I'm always looking for real time so that I can really see truely how people work! Definitely going to check out your other stuff! Also adorable designs!
Your inked line art is amazing. Most inking process videos that I've watched show the artist drawing a line, lifting their pen/stylus, then building up their line weight with subsequent, additional strokes. You, however, change your line weight within a single stroke. That's really impressive, and it's something I struggle a lot with!
That's true.
This is really cool. Digital inking has always been something I've had trouble with can't wait to try some of this out.
Dude like...i Love you. You know a lot of people tend to post #tutorials but yours, this one and the how to digital paint are saving my life, you dont know how much i have to thank you
+gabos993 Ah thanks! I'm starting up a new channel that will pretty much focus solely on tutorials and walk throughs so it's good to hear that this kinda thing is helpful.
Could we have a more in-depth look at your brush settings sometime?
I always ink with real ink and quills but this method is so cool for zooming in and out, it can bring a whole new density zones into the image!
I usually prefer real inks and paper, but I've been doing much more digital these days because it makes it easier to correct things.
Up until this moment I did not know inking was different from the standard Lineart so I never understood how someone could draw their line and undo till it's perfect with pressure in the lines, I can now improve my skills with the correct mindset.
+Last Tomb awesome!
This video has been the starting point for me getting into inking. I just gotta find a better brush and work on my pressure skills. I really appreciate it. Thanks bro!
Cheers!!
This is a pretty calm tutorial. I like it.
The biggest lie I was told by teachers and classmate in elementary school was don't trace!, tracing is the best way to to enhance muscle memory, then you can draw everything from the imagination.
This has been a super big help, thankyou x
I love this drawing so much!!
Thanks!
you are such a neat artist i should say
Hey man great stuff! Would love to see more of these.
Real helpful video good sir! I was too meticulous on my inking till I watched this. I was just wondering what kind of software would you advise to use for inking on OS X?
THAT. IS. AMAZING
Thanks!
You're so awesome!
Thanks a lot, love this!
Thank you so much for doing this with Photoshop and a default brush so basic schlubs like me can get the gist of digital inking. This was very helpful. (Also, HELL YES ROTATING CANVAS!!)
how does he rotate the canvas? please help!!
@@eskis38 The R button, looks like. had to google it
I draw on both platforms (though mind you Im not Luis Royo or Simon Bisley good) and I could never get clean ink lines traditionally yet still I can ink on it but from what I heard its great to train with fine art brushes that are fine tipped or so. con about inking traditionally is that it can be a bit messy. With digital artwork I can ink and have no mess but I don't seem to get those smooth lines I see alot of talented ones seem to have, am I missing a trick or something. Jamie what would be the best resolution to get ink lines that don't have that "Gray" blurry edges to them.
Im a self taught artist that likes to game and draw (began getting back to art when I was in my 2nd year of High school back in 2001). I use tablets, Cintiq (just recently upgraded from cintiq12WX to 21UX, though I don't want to splurge all my money on the 22HD since Ill wait for the price of the 27QHD to lower down after a few years).
oh god its amazing it made me do that thing where i squeal and just fall in love with the art. help , heart palpitations!
can u do an in depth sketching in photoshop video :)?
Any tutorial that you can recommand for the first technique?
You're much better at explaining this in a steady, digestible manner; and you actually show what the hell you're doing and why you chose to do it. Some artists have a tendency to babble about the multiplicity of options and forget that they're *trying* to show the basics, or just one method, so the whole video becomes tangential and convoluted.
That tracer scene you mentioned is from Chasing Amy, not Mallrats :)
Thanks king
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Those lines are so smooth?!?! Mine are choppy and i get pretty much zero variation in pressure sensitivity... I think it's my cheap graphics tablet... I have to press extremely lightly to get a slight variation and i can't have a smooth thin end to a line like you have here... It's also extremely choppy if I was just doing a line zoomed out
Have you tried improving your muscle memory with traditional drawing so you can focus less on a consistent line and more on line weight?
What are these brush settings? I'm new to Photoshop and the inking brushes I try to make never really reflect the pressure I use (the lines don't have much variation)
Jessica Wang, have you tried changing the settings in your tablet driver ? You can change the pressure needed (via some curves usually) to get 100% of the brush effect. It can be a good start.
you should try Lazy Nezumi to improve your linework
Thanks for sharing your techniques. How did you record your screen cast?
Snapz Pro on a Mac. It's from Ambrosia software. Oh, and answering from my other account.
my tablet got scratched :( any recommendations?
How can I draw hard lines ? Whatever I select from the brush tools, I always end up with my brush is fading out. I'm using Photoshop C6. I can only draw murky lines. PLEASE HELP ME OUT!
I'm not entirely sure without seeing what you're working with, but there should be a brush in that version called Hard Round. That should work like a regular inking brush. It's been a while since I've used CS6, but also make sure you're using brush and not pencil or whatever else is hiding in the brush tool. I think if you hit shift+B for a while it'll switch between brush, pencil, something else, and then back to brush. I think.
Frenden's Manga Studio brushes are great. The only downside is that some of them require advanced tablet features, like pen tilt and rotation. Great if you have a tablet capable of it, useless if not. And the only way to know if a brush requires those features or not, is to just test it out yourself.
My biggest issue with digital inking is stuff like feathering and line weight. I'm not too bad on paper, but on a table, I have a hard time with getting lines to be the thickness I want. I end up making them too thick or too thin.
I also have a hard time changing my brush sizes. Like, I get a setting I like, I don't wanna mess it up by changing it's size.
"The downside of undo is that you get used to it and spend a while getting your lines perfect when they don't need to be.".......yep. Sounds like me. I redraw lines over and over again until I like them.
Same with me, I can't seem to get line weight right on a tablet.
Cool tutorial. I have to agree with MallRats, I know plenty of inkers that can't actually draw, lol.
Those lines look remarkably crisp! Were you just using the hard round brush, or do you have particular settings? (Other than shape dynamics set to pen pressure.)
RemoteControlRox Just the regular hard round brush. For the tutorials, I try to just use the default settings so it makes it easier to follow along.
+Jamie Noguchi using a drawing tablet?
nice work!
Thanks!
Cool video! at the start you said you wouldn't recommend using the standard photoshop brush, what kind of brush do you recommend? (apart from the paid one you mentioned)
This sucker was done years ago when Kyle Webster was not employed by Adobe. Now, all of Kyle's brushes are available for free if you're a creative cloud subscriber which, I know, is a big pain in the ass. But his photoshop brushes are really great. I like the Rough Inker Comics because it has a lot grit to it. Has those dirty bleed things that you might get if you're inking real paper. I also like the Blake for thinner detail lines and some dry brushing. Those are my favorite two Photoshop brushes.
Geez I really need to work on my pressure skills. I'm just wondering if my old Wacom Bamboo Pen had enough level for such technique.
Pretty sure even the older Wacoms have decent enough pressure sensitivity to get some good thick to thin linework. Just takes practice and patience.
I'm really enjoying your channel so far. Most art tutorials out there are so pretentious, it makes them hard to watch...
I'm also kinda new to Manga Studio, and yeah, the inking is way better. would like to see some tutorials from you on there.
I just imagine the skull saying "KILL" and the guy saying "Hugs"
+Grimhof And yer mum saying "harder!"
How do you get your lines so tapered? I've tried playing around with my brushes in Photoshop, but whenever I want a tapered line like this, it's still so blunt at the ends. My pen pressure is on and everything.
Try updating your drivers? Which is something everyone always says, but every once in a while that happens to me. First I check drivers, then I unplug/replug, then i restart my computer. Usually one of those does it.
The other thing to check is the brush itself. Go to the Brush palette and check out Brush Tip Shape. In Shape Dynamics, make sure Pen Pressure is activated.
Hope this helps.
How are you getting these ink-like lines? Does it depend on the brush type? Is it the pressure settings?
For this particular demo, I use all the default settings. So the brush is the regular hard round brush and I'm using default pressure settings and all that. You can get really deep into the brush settings these days. This demo is from an older version of photoshop so there are much better inking brushes now thanks to Kyle Weber's sets. But everything in this demo is default.
I had to stop watching your tutorial at 13:56 because you rotated the image like four times. While I did find it helpful, I do get motion sick very easily and had to resort to listening only to the audio. Thank you for posting the video. I watch a lot of different people and you mention some things I can do. I also find it helpful that you aren't just voicing over a speed paint as I always walk away from them feeling like I'm a slowpoke. It just helps me keep perspective on how much time cool stuff takes. Keep up the awesome work. :)
Aw, sorry about that. I don't realize how fast I rotate things when I'm in the thick of it but I can definitely see how that could throw someone off who isn't ready for it. I usually get motion sick as well so there must be something about doing the rotation yourself rather than watching someone else.
I only found out yesterday that you can rotate a canvas by holding down the R button on your keyboard. Thanks you!
It helps so much!!
how do i get clear-crisp lines? without little raster bumps all around them?
I would try to up the resolution that your working on. 150dpi or better is usually good for inking. I prefer working at 300dpi for print.
Fantastic, do you ink it with a Tablet Monitor or Non Monitor Tablet?
Tablet Monitor.
Hi, great video! Can I ask you what digital tablet did you use here? Thanks
Cintiq Companion, though it's not necessary for this kind of work. Oh, I'm answering from my other account. But a nice little intuos or something similar can do the trick.
Thanks
Wow! thank you so much for this! 🙏 Why did you stop making these?
Well, I started a new channel specifically for my art tutorials. But then I got super busy drawing a graphic novel sooooo I kinda fell off the tutorial game. but I'm hoping to bring it back sooooooon. Here's my other channel th-cam.com/channels/P7zH8cjkIQPwjjpxUPilBA.html
Subscribed to it too! Thankyou so much I've learnned so much from your videos.
@@gyanchiluvery1387 Awesome!! Thanks for the support! I really want to do more, but things have been super busy.
can anyone suggest me one of them for beginner ?
Huion h420 or Xp-pen Star G640
I don't know much about the Huion products, but there are some great reviews by this guy, Frenden. He's also pretty active on twitter and responds to artists with questions about tablets frenden.com/tagged/review
how do u change the brush size so quickly?
King Michael the [ ] keys on the keyboard
i have a problem with my cintuq. when i use touch screen to move the drawing aorund for inking the draw doesn't move and the compass sign doesnt appear neither. what do i do?
+AmagyDragon25 Hrmm. Seems like it could be a driver problem. Have you updated your drivers?
Draw Jam no O.OU
i had it recently installed through...maybe that's why
Are you doing this with a mouse or a pen and pad tool?
He is using a cintiq. They are great but very pricey.
Cool Vid..
Can you please help me, I checked everything, resolution, brush settings, my lines in photoshop are very pixelated, do you know how to fix that?
Could be a couple of things.
1. If your document's color mode is bitmap, every line with be very pixelated either black or white.
2. Sometimes you might accidentally be using the pencil tool instead of the brush tool. That happens to me every once in a while if I push B too many times. Anything you draw with the pencil tool will be very pixelated.
3. If the layer you're working on is somehow set to Dissolve, the lines will look pixelated.
4. Uh, if you're zoomed really far in for some reason, things can look pixelated because photoshop is a rasther program.
Those are just off the top of my head. Let me know if any of that was helpful or if you still have a problem. This can be very frustrating when things don't work the way they should.
@@TheJamieNoguchi Thank you again!
When you ink, do you have Anti aliasing on or off which do you recommend?
I usually have anti aliasing on when I'm inking things myself. It really depends on the output. If you're working at 300 or 400 dpi for print, turning aliasing off will be okay since the printer will just kinda smoosh it all together. If you want to output to the web, taking a 300 dpi piece and downsizing to 72 will also smoosh everything so your lines will look smooth.
Thank you for your time!
How u rotate canvas in photoshop ? Thanks
Hold down the R key and you can rotate. When you let go, the canvas will stop rotating and you can use whatever tool you were using before you rotated.
Hi, thank you very much for the video! It's a great explication and good to see how you work. Would you mind to help me out posting your inspirations? I did not quite understand them in the video. Thank you very much :-)
Hello, Where can I download this brush?
Cheers
Which software you use
Photoshop. Don't remember what version this was done in, but it was an older one.
What brush do you use?
just the standard hard round brush.
Well, i still think the best tool for digital inking is Manga Studio (Clip Studio Paint).
Off the shelf, I think you're correct. The default Manga Studio brushes are amazing for inking. I've had to get a whole mess of artist brushes to get the same feel in Photoshop. Frenden and Kyle brushes are both excellent for photoshop inking. Frenden also makes a great set for Clips/Manga whatever it's called these days as well as a set that he's optimizing for the iPad Pro version of Clips.
What brush do you use for inking? I've been looking for that!
I think if I remember correctly, this is an older version of photoshop so I'm using just the standard hard round brush with a pressure sensitive tablet. I think this was done on a cintiq. It's been a while.
@@TheJamieNoguchi What do you think about this online tool for digital inking? th-cam.com/video/tTu7pQ68uZI/w-d-xo.html
@@photoshopsupply8251 I'll have to take a deeper dive into that at some point. But I like the idea of vector layers!
@@DrawJam Yes, the vector layers are great, but unfortunately the SVG download is only available for premium users :(
@@photoshopsupply8251 NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!
I have a Wacom Intuos tablet. I imagine your Cintiq Companion gives you no trouble. The problem I am having is that I can't get my pen and tablet to draw very well. I do far better with a mouse. What should I do? I'm not sure if it's me or the Intuos.
I'm not sure. I always check to see if I'm running the latest drivers if I'm running into a tablet problem. If your problem isn't a hardware/software issue and it's just taking a while to get that hang of it, that's all about practice. Honestly, took me a few months to get the hang of a regular Intuos. And now that I'm regularly using a Cintiq, I can't go back to the Intuos. So I don't think it's you. It's either a hardware/software or practice issue.
What softwate do you usually use for inking???
Now it's all photoshop but I think at the time of this recording I was doing more inking with Clips Studio.
@@TheJamieNoguchi thankk you for answering✨
are you using a mouse to draw?
No. I use a drawing tablet. Though I have friends who still use a mouse for coloring and such. I just never figured out how to do that!
Hey i can do this as good with a wacom intuos draw right?
Most definitely!
Holy mackerel! Thank you for the quick response. I know it just takes more practice
Practice and patience. Just don't sleep anymore.
Jamie Noguchi lol will do :)
how to change the width of ink brush while painting?
I'm using a tablet with pressure sensitivity. So the harder I press, the thicker the line. The lighter, the thinner.
how many pressurelevels ur tablet got? my tablet got 1024 but im not even close to get those lines like u do
I think this particular tablet was the same, 1024. I guess it just takes a lot of practice. I've been doing this for years.
"your eyes are attracted to big black areas" alright. 23:39
Im using an intuos medium. But i struggle with inking a lot. I find it very difficult to draw good lines with it. They all come out a bit "jerky" exept when i draw them very quickly. (note that im very good with pencils not digitally.) Is the cintiq that much better? your lines look much smoother. puu.sh/jbkDP/8cb0c98d10.jpg here is an example. puu.sh/iIexP/ae7ce9136d.jpg and here is my pencil stuff.
***** The Cintiq won't make your inked lines any better. It has the same levels of pressure as an Intuos.
Honestly, it really just takes a lot of practice and patience. In general, for longer lines and straight lines, I usually use broad, quick strokes. It's slightly different when working on paper. I usually ink very very slowly, especially if I'm pulling a longer line. But I feel like there's a lot of jitter working digitally when you move slowly so it really shows up in those longer lines.
For shorter lines and little fiddly details, going slowly works out decently.
Another good trick is to work way big, bigger than you intend on presenting the final image. My files are usually 600dpi and at least 3000 pixels on a side. If you zooooooom in on the inks, some of the lines are pretty rough and gross, but when you print them out or reduce for the web, that gets rid of any jitter.
Also, I absolutely hate inking in Photoshop. Manga Studio is my inking program of choice. It smooths out the digital jitter ever so slightly so your inks are nice and crisp.
Hope some of this helps!
Jamie Noguchi yeah it does. :) i was also thinking about vector graphics just for inking, because it is my nightmare basically. Everything else is fine. But generally it feels like simply painting without any inking is better with a graphic tablet.
can someone link the brushes?
The brushes used in the tut are the basic ones that come loaded in Photoshop. Nothing fancy.
Why creating this, did u use drawing pen? Or just a mouse?
wacom pen
@@TheJamieNoguchi Thank you for sharing the knowledge. Very inspiring and insightful
Download brush please!
Raziel Henzo, it's the basic photoshop brush
Can you do this with a mouse?
Not easily. With a mouse, you don't have access to things like pressure sensitivity.
In Photoshop, Sai, GIMP and other software, there are line tools where you basically make a lot of dots along the sketch you've already made. In Photoshop it's called the Pen tool. It's would be tedious to use it for small details or crosshatching. It would also be tedious to color with a mouse.
no, you definitely need a drawing tablet, preferrably wacom
HAHAHAHAAHAHHAHAHA.
no.
this is the classic example of "just get to the fucking thing!"
Hey :) realy cool Video and artwork.
what Kind of brush you use? I can not find a brush like this and I am freaking out cause my outlines look so horible xD
For this demo, I just used the default Photoshop settings for the hard round brush. I'm using a Wacom Cintiq tablet in this demo.
thank you :)
What's ur setting for this?
The brush I use is just the hard round with pen pressure to control the size. This is also an old ass version of Photoshop so Kyle Brushes at that time were not included. For actual work, I use a number of the Kyle Brushes inking brushes because they give me the closest feel to inking with actual brushes.
Frenden (frenden.com) also makes some great brush sets for Clips and Photoshop and a few other digital art programs out there.
@@TheJamieNoguchi omg omg thamk you i'm learning a lot bless ur channel 💛💛
@@blueclift5582 Ah, thanks! I kinda moved all my art stuff to my other art channel, th-cam.com/users/drawjam, but I still have a bunch of older stuff here that gets some views. I try to respond to questions if I can answer them! Thanks for checking em out!!
are you using a drawing tablet?
Yup. Wacom Cintiq.
Chasing Amy...
It's 'Chasing Amy', bra.
Epitath
Brush settings??
Default brush settings to make it easier to follow.
C H I L L
"I AM USING PHOTOSHOP!" - damn.....what loud! We knew it's photoshop! LOL
4:55 is where the tutorial actually starts ... :)
KING CRIMSON (Satan Edition)
I love what you’re showing but for a rookie like me....you’re too fast man! 🦌
Oh man, sorry! I'll try to do some more slower beginner type things on my other channel. I've been slammed with work lately so it's gonna take a bit to get back to these.
Jamie Noguchi
Thanx! I appreciate your consideration 📍
That is FUDGING UGLY. And that's a hell of a compliment. There's something about that thing that just looks foul. Maybe its the mini-manga in it's head. =) Just out of curiosity, have you or do you ink people? Like trying to ink out people and convey the contours of their body? Not necessarily going for ultra photo realism (though that would be cool) but for a pseudo comic book representation of a humanbeing. I'm having a terrible time trying to ink the subtle shadows that fall along the body, from facial contours such as the lips and muscles. Not man muscles but the inconspicuous female muscles.
Christopher Funk Just as an example, you can check this out: sergeastahov.com/images/DigitalSculpting/FemaleBodyFrontBack_lrg_Thb.jpg
If you look at the torso and see the shaded areas that depict the muscles and bone underneath, that's what I'm talking about. Would you just block that in and then vary the hatching? You know, to accurately depict it? So almost realistic?
The pure blacks are easy. It's the grays that I struggle with. Hatching, everything, looks awful. =(
Christopher Funk depends. If I'm doing black and white, I'd probably use some thin crosshatching lines to define some of that musculature. If I'm coloring it, I might do very thin lines to define the lower part of the muscles and then define it with more clarity in color.
Jamie Noguchi Yeah. I'm going to experiment with that and see what I can get out of it. I can nail it perfectly with pencil but squib it with ink. Pencil is cake. Ink is a mystery. I think I'll just have to fine tune it until it comes out right. I was inking traditionally (no computer) but I can't handle ruining another drawing. Such a loss of time. Anyway, thanks for the advice!
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