Digital brushstrokes

**Inkthinker** · 05-02-2006, 01:00 AM

Started off as some work-related stuff that got rejected, ended up like this. I had a VERY rough doodle layout from my studio boss to work from, inked it in Manga Studio EX, then brought it into Photoshop. Took a couple paper textures off the internet, layered and tweaked and played about with the Hue/Saturation settings and bam!

I was trying to make every line accent the motion... I wanted it to look Asian in tone, but somehow I think it came out more like Al Hirschfeld.

Anyhow, it got rejected about halfway through the inks, so I decided to hijack it. I kinda like the results, not bad for about a half-hour's actual work (took about three times that to actually do it, but I spent a lot of time tweaking and fiddling with Opacities and so forth).

**benrosa** · 05-02-2006, 01:16 AM

Inkthinker-

I love it! my only critique is everything flows beautifully with the exception of the hair, it needs rythm.

Other than that- magnifico!

BTW- seeing that you're from Tampa ( so am I ) will you be attending this Sunday's May 7th Comic book convention at the Doubletree Hotel off of Westshore and Cypress?

**Inkthinker** · 05-02-2006, 01:32 AM

I might, actually. I totally forgot about it until now... pretty much just be a shopping trip, though... I don't recall there being anyone I wanted to meet.

Where do you shop for comics? Green Shift? Hooked On?

**Karim** · 05-02-2006, 02:33 AM

this is too clean and polished, screams pen tool.
You might wanna keep your pen paths, but instead of stroking them with the regular brush, use a more rough one, will look better and more like a japanese calligraphy like illustration imo.
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agree on the hair.

**benrosa** · 05-02-2006, 06:29 AM

Originally Posted by Inkthinker

I might, actually. I totally forgot about it until now... pretty much just be a shopping trip, though... I don't recall there being anyone I wanted to meet.

Where do you shop for comics? Green Shift? Hooked On?

I go to Emerald City in Clearwater, or Read More Comics in Brandon ( cool shop ) Sometimes I got to Wonder Water in Dale Mabry. Hey, if you go let me know we can talk shop. Shoot me an email
bentoons@gmail.com I am going to do some shopping there myself.

Love your work Inkthinker and would love to pick your brain so let me know.

**Inkthinker** · 05-02-2006, 10:59 AM

Originally Posted by Karim

this is too clean and polished, screams pen tool.
You might wanna keep your pen paths, but instead of stroking them with the regular brush, use a more rough one, will look better and more like a japanese calligraphy like illustration imo.
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agree on the hair.

I can look into the settings, but for now this is the basic brushstroke that Manga Studio provides. It automatically attached a stroke to the path , and while I expect you can make changes to the brush pattern, I don't know exactly how to, yet.

On the upside, if I did figure it out I could probably apply it to the vector paths already existant. The nice thing about digital inks is their malleability.