Ah, you're quite skilled wit that thing!

Inking is something I'm afraid of--not that there's merit in committing my scribbles to ink, mind! XD

Nice work! ...I'm also noticing the scale--I like tiny pieces (I make ACEO). ^_^

I always had issues with those pens. I need try may hand again thoug

Angry ratty.

Those are great. :D

The lower one is like "Shiiiiit we're being drawn on this paper"

I was never able to ink with those, though I did try.
You do a wonderful job at it

Back when I used "real" media, I preferred either a Gillott 170 nib, used by Larry Feign ("World of Lily Wong," "Heathcliff" TV series) and introduced to me by our own  schirm ... Or a #3 camel's hair brush (I heard that Walt Kelly not only inked with this brush, but also lettered with it!).

These days, I've gone 100% digital. Luckily for me my drawing program of choice, Clip Studio Paint (formerly Manga Studio), features a "G-pen" emulator. That's my preferred "inking" tool these days. That, along with the built-in "line stabilizer," are among the best features of this software.

As an aside, while working with Krita (for those who also use it), I found it's version of the G-pen doesn't have an option (that I can find) to disable antialiasing. This makes for extra work if using the select+flood fill method of flat-shading. Fortunately if one drills farther down into Krita's default brush set, there is a 'Pixel art' brush that works the same as Clip Studio's G-pen with its antialiasing (fuzziness) turned off.

I have and happen to use both applications, just putting this out there as information for those who can use it. (I also keep in practice with India ink+brush for convention pics)

The solution for that is to put the colors on a separate layer "underneath" the inks. Select the fill area, expand it, select the color layer, fill. (Assuming you don't already know this trick.) It's kind of like painting an animation cel.

Also, definitely a good idea to keep in practice with "traditionial" media (I'm guilty of not doing that enough).

Yep, I do use this exact tactic even now, but in the past, it produced inconsistent results. See the fifth paragraph of the description under Patrol Leader Training for the explanation.

(Also the expand-selection trick was prone to user error when I accidentally filled on the inks layer and went back to re-select the fill in order to erase it. I'didn't get invariably forget to turn off the expansion and find that I chewed off a pixel or two from the inks bounding the fill when I replaced it on the flats layer)

Damn...impressive....

Sh-Shut up! I love my mechanical eraser!

I should upload something like this.

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