Posted: 25 June 2019 at 4:52am | IP Logged | 4
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Trevor, in my experience, artists can focus on many different things. Some on poses, others on structure and so on down an endless path.
Inkers can fall into these traits also, focusing on line weights or following a 'model', providing depth. Whenever I see Ordway's inks, (Bias offered freely: I like his embellishments.), I see that 'sheen' as his way of describing the point at which the highlight meets the mid-tones.
When an inker seeks to define something not inherent in the pencils, could be texture as easily as it could be a highlight, they move away from inking what's there to embellishing the drawing!
If you are inking, you are prepping the artwork for print. So effectively tracing the lines (with style and informed judgement) so that they are dark enough for print. If you are embellishing, well that is when you take the art and run with it in your own direction, not the pencillers. Some inkers think they are inking when really they are embellishing. Not in and of itself a huge problem but if you are the penciller and you are told you will be inked you may need to be more -literal- in your lines than if you were preparing for someone who is going to embellish on your work and likely discard things like your lineweights or light sources et al.
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