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Inking the Jeff Way: Part 1 – Pencils to Blueline

Fore­word: I have been ink­ing comics for about 7 years most­ly as a hob­by, and as a way to be involved in the com­ic book pro­duc­tion here at Alba­tross Comics. I am by no means a com­pe­tent com­ic pen­cil­er, and, as oth­ers who work with Alba­tross know, writ­ing is not some­thing that comes easy for me. Oh Gad does it not come easy. So I went with ink­ing see­ing as who I was always good at repro­duc­ing images in my youth, and no, I didn’t trace that Spi­der-Man in 10^th grade art Chris. I repro­duced it. It’s always rel­a­tive­ly easy to look at a draw­ing and recre­ate it at about 60–80% as good as the original…which for some­one who wasn’t an artist and want­ed to be, it was a good pride build­ing exer­cise. Read more »

Making a Comic Book

Here is a brief look at the process of cre­at­ing a com­ic book. Read more »

 Inking the Jeff Way: Part 2 — Tools of the Trade

By the end of this read my hope is that you know what tools are need­ed in order do some ink­ing.  Read more »