Bring inking back - Make the corporations take notice Options

[Anthony Hochrein]

The question remains, although traditional inking seems to be a "dying art", I'd like to hear opinions on what will make the corporations take notice of traditional inking as something of value? It's not like rubberband and tape special effects, you know.

[Jimmy T]

Inking is with Inks, so there really is no old school.

Inking will always be a part of quality comics, because if you do digital inking with a tablet you cannot accomplish

what you can on the original pencils. I see a lot of digitally done pages, and they do suffer. Most fans have no clue what inks are about, but the ones that collect, and as fans

get older they see the differnces, although subtle with someone that has been doing digital for a while.

There is no secondary market for the digital inker and so it takes them longer and they get less money. Digital inkers are inkers expanding their knowlege or people that

can not ink traditionally.

Digital darkening is also prevelent and those artists books look really bad to me, because they do not ink weights always right and the art looks rough, saturated and

unfinished.


But there will be fans of all.

So no matter what, the traditional inker will always be around, there are those artists that want a crip clean line and images that pop.

From the amount of e-mails I get for inks, and commissions guys I know do, there is a huge market out there for inkers.

So fear not.

Jimmy