Inking Patrick - Video #11 Adobe Illustrator Freehand Brush Inking Tutorials Finale

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Adobe Illustrator Cartoon & Comic Book
Inking Tutorial Video #11 Inking Patrick

Now that I've gone into excruciating detail about my Adobe Illustrator cartoon inking process, I have one last video to show all of the previous tips in action. It only takes me a few minutes to do all the inking on Patrick because I'm going at a more normal speed.

In a few spots, I made some quick cuts to avoid repeating the same material ad nauseam.

For example, there's not much point in making you watch me draw all of Patrick's little dots, so the video only captures that kind of stroke a couple of times.

Right in the middle of doing the inking on Patrick, I stopped to fix some light weight issues on SpongeBob...

This is a great example of one of the features that makes Adobe Illustrator such a great tool for cartoon and comic book inking; you can go back and change the line weight at any time, while still preserving the thick and thin variation in the original line. There's no need to go back and re-ink the line... you could just revise the thickness however you want.

There are many more examples of using the pencil tool to reshape the brush strokes, and using the copy and paste commands to save time by reusing various drawing elements. The arrange command is used frequently in this video, and even though I've demonstrated it many times already, it's worth repeating because it is so incredibly useful.

If you're new to this series, I recommend that you watch this one to see where we're going, and then back up all the way to Video #1 and follow the whole series from the beginning. Remember...you can use all the same tools and settings that I use if you...

download the custom Adobe Illustrator
Cartoon/Comic Book Inking Template!

Here is the YouTube version if you have trouble viewing the BIG high-resolution video at the top of the page...

Now that this phase is complete,

here is the COMPLETE list of all eleven

Adobe Illustrator Cartoon Inking
tutorial videos:

#1 - How to Set Up and Import Images

#2 - Palette Options and Settings

#3 - Freehand Calligraphic BRUSH Tool

#4 - We Start INKING in Illustrator!

#5 - How to Use Shapes & Ellipse Tool

#6 - How to Use Illustrator Graphic Styles

#7 - Working With Reshape Tool and Layers

#8 - Arrange, Transform, Reflect in Action
#9 - Picking Up The Pace

#10 - Finishing SpongeBob Inking

Next comes the transitional phase between inking and painting: Importing the line art into Adobe Photoshop for tweaking, cleaning and coloring the line art. I'm gonna try to fit all that in to just two videos, so we can quickly move on to the fun world of digital painting in ArtRage!