The Digital Quill Pen

I added a couple new comics, enjoy.

I'm a big fan of the old school quill pen and the loose look of inking with a brush. If you don't know what I'm talking about then just look at any of the traditional comics like those by Charles Schultz (Peanuts - Snoopy) or Bill Waterson (Calivin & Hobbes). But I don't work traditionally, I work strictly on my tablet pc.

For all the artists out there I highly reccomend the tablet pc if you can get one. If not then at least get a wacom tablet. In case you didn't get the memo, you should know that inking and even drawing your roughs on paper has recently become obselete. We all love the feel of drawing on paper, but it's just not time effective. To keep the look of the old style of drawing I use special brushes in photoshop and check the setting, "Shape Dynamics."

So to get my digital ink style I use the following method in photoshop

THE DIGITAL QUILL PEN

1. Make a black rectangle

2. Select it

3. Go to Edit > Define Brush Preset

4. Check "Shape Dynamics"

5. Find 3 or 4 different sizes you like and save them into your brush presets.