Clean up and Inking

In this most excellent  Online Animation course, you will continue to explore and practice the important and often neglected art of sketch, cleaning up, inking, and coloring in preparation for a final and finished product.  This is an essential part of your animation education. This online art course is one in a series of courses we offer for Clean up, Ink and Paint. You can take this course as one of our individual online classes or as part of our diploma program. These online animation courses are part of the whole animation training process.

Why is clean up so important?

Because you need to draw fast, you start off with a loose sketch and rough drawing. So you now have a great rough sketch, but because it is so messy you need to clean it up. Not trace but clean it up. Most, if not all of the animated films and tv shows have a nice clean line. That is what clean up and inking consist of.  There are many books on inking for comics which can give you a great understanding of a professional inked line. These online animation courses will give you 10 assignments that are designed to train the production artist.

In this online class we will cover:

• Ink drawing not tracing!
• In contrast with dark and white values
• Inking with simple black and white
• building endurance with your inking
• practice practice practice inking speed
• self-portrait inked drawing
• comic book inking
• Inking a colored comic page