Tips and Techniques FAQ - Yes, the Link Section is broken

**Inkthinker** · 10-22-2003, 05:53 AM

Okay, we're getting a lot of repeat questions lately, which is a good thing... it means we're getting a lot more users. So to help all of you new guys to this section of PencilJack, here are links to threads that deal with Frequently Asked Questions.

If your question isn't here, go ahead and ask about it with a new thread... if a question gets asked enough, I'll add it to the FAQs list. Feel free to suggest a question to me via PM if it looks like I forgot a big one in this initial list. Also, I'll continue to add to these links as new tutorials and such are posted. And of course, you can always add your advice in any thread.

At a later point I'll come back through and replace the raw links with the thread titles, bear with me. And let's keep this thread strictly for links to threads that deal with various questions.

Frequently Asked Questions about Tips and Techniques

Does anyone have tips for Storytelling or Page Building?

Eddie Ching's Storytelling 101

"Indestructable Pencils"

The "KIRBY CRACKLE"

Mase's Sequential Process

What's the best pencil? Mechanical pencil? Any Tips for drawing? How do I use certain tools? How can I clean up my line art?

Pencils

Mechanical pencil lead hardness

Line Weight

French Curves/Vanishing Points

Baloodoo Bill - Drawing the Circle in Perspective

Drapery, folds and clothing

Clean line art

Smoothing out shaky lines

Does anyone have tutorials for inking? What's the best pen or brush?

How to Blue-Line an Image for Inking

Inking for beginners

Tutorials

Digital Inking...

Inking tips from a Pro

Inking devices

Flash as an Inking tool

Care and maintainance of the Rapidograph technical pen

What's a Wacom? What's the best kind, and how much are they?

Tell me about a Wacom tablet

Wacom techniques tutorials

On investing in a WaCom tablet...

Tablet PC's

How to clean my Wacom

What's the best art board?

Best board

Best art board II

What paper do you use, and where can I buy it?

How about anatomy? What's the skinny?

How To Draw The Human Ear

How to Draw the Human Eye

Good head references

Reference on how to draw the body and shading it

Feet

Chest anatomy

Dynamic Poses

Facial Expression Reference Sites

Which Anatomy book should I pick?

Does anyone know how to color in Photoshop, or where I can find tutorials?

Detailed Photoshop Coloring Tips

How do people color their images?

How do you color like that?

How do you protect your lines when you color in Photoshop?

How to preserve your inked lines in Photoshop

How do you use Painter? Where can you get brushes for Painter or Photoshop?

Painter 8 tutorial

PS 7 brushes

Is Painter 8 worth the price?

What's the best scanner to buy? How much are they? How can I clean up my scans? How do I scan a piece bigger than my scanner?

Scanners

Scanner type

Scanner Prices

Scanning Double page spreads

How do you letter a comic? what about logos?

a quick rundown on hand lettering

making balloons the Blambot way

Popular free fonts and how to install them

More on fonts

creating logos

another thread about Logos

More to come, I'm sure...

And as always, make sure to check out the amazing
Penciljack Links Directory
for reference, tutorials, and resources which may or may not have been mentioned on the boards! it's a veritable goldmine of information!

**Tony Moore** · 11-08-2003, 06:08 PM

the day you posted this, i had considered doing the exact same thing. Excellent work, chum.

-T

**Inkthinker** · 11-09-2003, 06:41 PM

Still need to make all those raw links into text links... It's not that difficult (all I have to do is go in and add the VBB url code), it's just one of those time-consuming chores.

**Dash Martin** · 11-09-2003, 06:58 PM

Make Tony do it. hehehehhe

**Inkthinker** · 12-19-2003, 05:29 PM

I started converting the raw links into text links tonight... after I'm done with this, I plan to start really cracking down on questions answered in the FAQ.

You're making me do this work, people... now I'm gonna make you use it!

**dfbovey** · 12-19-2003, 09:32 PM

Great job on this Ben.

Shindig · 12-24-2003, 11:39 AM

I must ask some good questions, alot of those threads were started by me

Thanks for making this Inkthinker, now I can find everything ^^.

**Inkthinker** · 01-20-2004, 04:59 PM

Finished converting all the raw links, and new ones will be added with text, so now you know exactly what the topic of the thread you'll be headed for is.

And it only took 3 months!