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Inking Comic Art in Illustrator

For the traditional artist, the digital world offers little that compares to the richness of inking your artwork with a brush or technical pen. Software required: Illustrator CS6.

Eddie Russell - Pluralsight course - Inking Comic Art in Illustrator
by Eddie Russell

What you'll learn

For the traditional artist, the digital world offers little that compares to the richness of inking your artwork with a brush or technical pen. In fact, most artists would instinctively reach for Photoshop to accomplish just such a task. In this tutorial, we will learn that Illustrator offers a variety of tools that can quickly and easily give us great results. To start out, we will learn about the tools used for each of our three techniques. Then we will move into practical application of each inking technique on a variety of different types of artwork. After completing this course, you'll be familiar with three different approaches to inking in Illustrator that can be applied to a variety of different types of artwork. Software required: Illustrator CS6.

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Eddie Russell - Pluralsight course - Inking Comic Art in Illustrator
Eddie Russell

Eddie is a content producer for Unity as well as a seasoned shading, texturing, lighting and rendering artist. He takes pride in helping creative professionals reach their learning goals.

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