I always admired the way guys like Shane Glines, Bruce Timm, Joe Sinnot and the Harvey Comics inkers could wield a brush. I never had the dexterity to use a real brush with ink myself.
But once I got a Cintiq and started inking on the computer I found programs that allowed me to do the thick and thin styles I like so much in Comic books - and without the mess.
I started first with Illustrator -which was a bear to learn. Now I'm finally used to drawing in Photoshop - I can do the kind of lines I like, but can't use the paint bucket to fill flat colors because to get the smooth lines, PS antialiases the edges which buggers everything up. - We used to do Thick and Thin in Flash but that was a monstrous process - expensive, tedious and time consuming.
But in Toonboom's programs, it's really easy to do good lines (even for a non-dexterous person like myself).
We made a demo to show how easy it is to ink on the computer in "Animate".
John K Inks George Liquor from John Kedzie on Vimeo.
By the way, Toonboom's "Animate" is on sale today if you wanna get beautiful comic book style inking in your animation.
