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Mikintosh:
How does one create the "inking" effect without actually using a pen or whatnot? 'Cause I'm a pencil man, but said drawings don't come out very well on the computer.

Acegikmo:
Most people use a tablet, I don't have that luxury so I end up inking them, scanning into flash and then deleting the space around them

torg:
I use a tablet, too, and I dont draw on paper at all... but I guess you could just scan your line art and adjust the the colour of the scan to only black and white...

Primate:
It should be noted that computers can handle scanned pencil drawings and turn out quite pleasant results (online, check out http://www.megatokyo.com or offline, check out Sandman: The Wake). You want to set your scanner to scan at 300 or 600 dpi to get a detailed enough scan that will look decent when printed back out. Of course, you'll have to clean it using a computer program, but you were going to need one of those to ink without pens anyways. The industry standard is probably Photoshop (or its stripped down versions like Photoshop Elements). Photoshop has an eraser you can use to subtract any odd background color you picked up during the scan. It also has a nice set of tools for inking. I know the magazine Draw! has had some nice articles about inking using Photoshop. Also I know others around here have suggested other and cheaper art programs than Photoshop. But as has already been noted, a graphics tablet, like the ones Wacom sells, makes life much easier for doing art on a computer.

Sideways:
Steps I take:

-Sketch
-Clean the sketch
-Scan it
-New Layer
-Ink with Tablet


Don't let people steer you away from the tablet... ever.  It takes awhile to rewire your brain when using one (drawing on one surface, but not looking at your drawing-surface, rather looking a foot or so away at a screen... it's odd at first).

A cheap Wacom tablet will run you $100.00, and it's a sound investment.

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