HOW TO DRAW COMICS:
INKING WITH A BRUSH pt 15

Continuing the real-life saga of one man’s struggle against his art materials!

As promised last week, I want to touch on the subject of filling in large areas of black on your page.

Usually, in the course of inking a page, I’ll have filled in many of the smaller areas of black already, often as a way to get excess ink off the brush after dipping, so I can start inking finer lines than a full brush will allow. But when it comes to filling in large areas of black, I tend to leave them till the very end of inking a page for a couple of reasons.

First, I like having areas on the page where …READ MORE »