Showing posts with label inkwork. Show all posts
Showing posts with label inkwork. Show all posts

Monday, 31 May 2021

How To Ink A Demons Head: Step By Step Inking Process

 Inking Demons Head step by step with ink process. I used a regular black Sharpie marker for the darker areas to build off on with other ink pens such as 0.7 Uni Pin fine liner and a 0.1 and a 1.0 for any medium sized ink lines.


1. Start off with a loose pencil sketch of your idea, the looser the sketch the better to add detail later on. I used a 6B Staedtler pencil for the quick sketch


Pencil Sketch

2. Ink in the outlines with a thin ink pen, I used the 0.7 uni pin ink pen for this.

Ink Outline Demon Head

3. Add extra line details that will form the basis of skin and flesh texture later on.

The Inking Process Conctinues

4. Use a sharpie marker to add in some shadow areas.

Sharpie Marker Thick Ink Lines

5. This video explains the beginning of the textured ink process.





Ink Hatching

6. Use ink hatching to add the detailed textures.

Inking Technique

7. Complete using the 0.7 and 1.0 ink pens creating varying ink lines.

Ink Pen Inking

8. Use the 0.1 uni pen ink pen to create finer ink lines at the tops of more heavily inked areas for smaller details.

Ink Process

9. Take a look at your drawing and see what else you could add to it. Any finer details or other tiny textures will add something to your demon head.

inking a demons head step by step process

10. I decided to add a thicker underline underneath to create a line weight that helps give the head drawing an extra layer of depth by making it more solid and shadowed.

And there you go, I tried to make it as less wordy and complicated as possible, so you could follow along or try and gain some inspiration from this post,if you would like to see more advanced inking techniques, then I shall be doing a post which will focus more on that and then you could take your inking to the next level.


See this other example of a different Demon Head being drawn and inked for further inspiration.

Friday, 24 August 2012

Basic Inking Techniques - A Dragon Drawing

On this Dragon drawing I did on a Google live hangout I decided to go through some very basic inking techniques whilst inking the Dragon pencil sketch. The Dragon is a pre-sketch for another project, an idea for a full on fantasy painting which will feature in my bathroom eventually and although this Dragon drawing looks great I think that's were the projects should part company and go their separate ways. I have since had another Dragon idea were the Dragon has his wings outstretched, with fantasy landscape scenery in the background.

Back to this drawing I used a Berol ink pen which is a nice fine ink pen for some detailed inking on the creature with opportunities for cross hatching and bolding the ink lines. Watch the video below and try to see some of the inking methods and some of the tips I try to demonstrate. They will help you in your own drawings.