Digital Inking In Photoshop

This is my OLD way of inking, way before I got Corel Painter. Now I draw freehand EXCLUSIVELY on Painter.

Accompanying video for the Full Tutorial:
http://www.farlowstudios.com/tutorials/digital-inking-in-pscs4/

My old approach of digitally inking my line art in Photoshop before I discovered Corel Painter and the WACOM Intuos tablet. :)

For more of my drawings, please visit

http://www.farlowstudios.com or
http://daggerpoint.deviantart.com

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[jellybaby86]

Can I ask how you fill the path so sharply. When I try it is fuzzy and it pixalates.

The closer I zoom in the worse it is and I wanted it sharp and defined. Thank you. x

[jeremyfarlow]

@jellybaby86 Its all on how big your canvas is. 72dpi will produce blurry lines. I work on a 600dpi file.

[giovanna16mx]

pleaase pleaase say the name of the sooong...im beggin you :S pleease!

[jeremyfarlow]

@giovanna16mx Desire by Amanda Kaletsky

[morlac2]

you have patience :D

[TheEsaful]

@TheRaven0us It's Pen Tool

[TheRaven0us]

What tool do you use dude? I'm new to Photoshop

[leo12619]

this is awesome dude, cheers for uploading. out of interest, would you use the same technique on a photo? I've seen a few examples of people doing similar style artwork on photographs and was just wondering if the original piece changes the way you'd approach inking?

[Rockerninja329]

@xxblazingKiLLjoYxx Yeah it's really simple ^_^ basically like paint but with a layer option and a whole bunch of more tools and options at your disposal. You can choose the type of paper also (I find this option weird but ehh..) Hope this helps! (and sorry if I rambled ^^;)

[xxblazingKiLLjoYxx]

@Rockerninja329 Hi :3 I believe I have corel painter, but haven't used it much. Is it easy?

[Rockerninja329]

I love photoshop because of it's precision regardless of your skill level in drawing but in the end I like corel painter better because it feels more natural ^_^ that and it came free with my intuos4 (laughs) I still wanna get photoshop later though ^^;

[Aztec5713]

I still say old school pen and brush have a way better look to them . Photoshop gives it to sharp and to hard of a inked line . You can't get the same feel with Photoshop as you get going old school .

[cowboxe]

So is the only sure way of getting nice clean lines on the fly using a WACOM by drawing/sketching in Corel Painter? It seems like Photoshop is incapable of letting me get nice clean lines free-hand with the brush tool. The pen tool is far too time consuming to get something that a lot of people could get in half the time if they just used different tools or what not.

[jangonauta]

purfect song for da purfect artline