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        | Matt Hawes Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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           | Posted: 20 January 2021 at 12:51pm | IP Logged | 1 | post reply |  
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 |  There's been some nice work in this thread. I am enjoying seeing everyone's efforts. Thanks for sharing, guys! 
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        | Paul Wills Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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           | Posted: 24 January 2021 at 9:49pm | IP Logged | 2 | post reply |  
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 I thoroughly enjoyed inking this page. I love how the panels are split by the beams! | 
       
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        | Shane Hill Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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          Great looking page Paul! I loves me some Gladiator!! What are you inking with?
           | Posted: 25 January 2021 at 1:06pm | IP Logged | 3 | post reply |  
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 I ask because my only real critique of this is that your line weights all seem to similar.  A little more variation on the line weight would really help 'POP' Gladiator into the foreground (with a thinker/bolder outline on him) and some variation in the line weights as a whole would also help with things like hair and hatching. 
 It's a little nit-picky... but it will really make the page separate better and make your foreground character really stand out. | 
       
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        | Paul Wills Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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          Thanks Shane!
           | Posted: 25 January 2021 at 2:01pm | IP Logged | 4 | post reply |  
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 |  I'm using technical pens - I've tried brush, quill, tablet.. but technical pens are the tools I feel most comfortable with. 
 I completely agree with the critique - after I finish inking and reduce it, I see the same thing you're telling me. In fact, I remember JB mentioning the line weight issue a while back. I'm going to select a random page again and have another go to see if I can use these critiques to my advantage. (Not nit-picky - well appreciated!) | 
       
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        | Shane Hill Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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          Paul... I used to use tech pens / rapidograph pens back in the day.  I would have a few different sizes and I would ink with one size to lay down the medium size lines, then take a finer pen to give the lines variation.  I'm pretty sure Terry Austin did that too.  It gives the illusion of a brush ink job, but allows you more control.
           | Posted: 25 January 2021 at 2:15pm | IP Logged | 5 | post reply |  
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 I found these Japanese brush pens called Zibra Pens.  They have different brush sizes, but feel like a pen.  They are my go to now for physical inking.  I mostly ink digitally now. 
 Also... paper quality makes a difference too.  A nice bristol board / comic paper helps. | 
       
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        | Paul Wills Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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          Appreciate the tip! (No pun intended Haha)
           | Posted: 25 January 2021 at 2:22pm | IP Logged | 6 | post reply |  
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        | Paul Wills Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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           | Posted: 28 January 2021 at 10:17pm | IP Logged | 7 | post reply |  
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 Ok I used a bit of brush and tech pen with this one. Apologies for the shadow effect from the copy. | 
       
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        | Shane Hill Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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          Nice inks Paul!  I do see your point that the greyscale background pencils scans are obscuring and blurring some of your lines.
           | Posted: 30 January 2021 at 4:14pm | IP Logged | 8 | post reply |  
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 Have you thought of printing out the pencils in blue?  Then when you scan your inked page in, you can remove the blue digitally and get crisper scans. 
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        | Paul Wills Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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          Thanks again Shane! I know it's better to ink on blue pencils. It's just an involved process for me to print in blue and have the copy facility reproduce it exactly. If only I had one of those giant printers...
           | Posted: 01 February 2021 at 11:12am | IP Logged | 9 | post reply |  
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 |  I've seen your work as well - super nice! | 
       
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        | Shane Hill Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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          Thanks Paul.  It seems easy to have clean stuff... when its all done digitally.  BUT... the price I pay is that I'm slower than a glacier because of the digital crutch. lol
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        | Paul Wills Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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           | Posted: 07 February 2021 at 10:06am | IP Logged | 11 | post reply |  
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 |  This was done w/ tech pen & brush. I tried not to use french curve so much this time (I don't know why I keep choosing the pages with the strange Byrne creatures, but man they're fun to ink!).  
 
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        | Matt Hawes Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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          Nice work, Paul!
           | Posted: 07 February 2021 at 1:10pm | IP Logged | 12 | post reply |  
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