Inking a Comic with Mike Cope's Hand

Watch the hand of Canadian cartoonist Mike Cope magically turn a pencil sketch into an inked cartoon character -- right before your very eyes!

Featured in this video is Page 1 from the September 2009 episode of the comic "NetTrekkers," in which Patrick travels to the Canadian prairies during the annual wheat harvest. The original comic art is drawn on an 11"x14" sheet of Strathmore Bristol board (smooth finish).

Prior to shooting this video, Mike Cope planned the text and page layout in Adobe Photoshop, and then rough sketched the panel illustrations using a regular 2H pencil. The inking process (seen here) is done using a combination of dip pens equipped with Hunt 102 and 513EF nibs from Speedball, and Winsor & Newton's Black Indian Ink.

"NetTrekkers" is published in The Canadian Reader by LesPlan Educational Services Ltd. and is distributed to elementary schools across the country to help promote children's literacy. Each month's story is written by Canadian children's author, Vivien Bowers, and illustrated by Mike Cope.

This video may be freely shared and distributed in its entirety for educational and/or entertainment purposes only. For commercial and/or broadcast use, please contact mikecope [at] copetoons [dot] com.

© Copyright 2009 by Mike Cope - COPETOONS.COM

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• Canadian
• cartoonist
• comic
• original art
• cartoon character
• pencil sketch
• inking
• dip pens
• Mike Cope
• NetTrekkers
• children's literacy
• elementary schools
• Canadian Reader
• LesPlan
• education
• magic

[copetoons0com]

Thanks, Ivan ... Yes, I use a combination of Hunt 102s and 513EF in this video. I apologize, but I'm not sure what you mean by "copperplate."

[LobsterPotsticker]

hot music

[106YeahYeah]

very helpful and inspirational , would like to try to use dip pens for the comic strip im creating for fun but i'm left handed so have a feeling it could be a bit messy

[phongbong]

For some reason I always like the pencil drawings better.

[azuz6778]

you can draw better than me!

[4x4Daddy]

Who plays music?

[Ivan091488]

nice inking....hey the nib you are using is a speedball 102? is it the same use for the copperplate?