I couldn't help myself, I saw the pencils for this one on Erics website and I had to ink it!
This is the cover for issue #2 of Neverland published by Zenescope. Tinkerbell in all her sexy glory! Eric did a great job with her.
The hardest part of the whole piece for me was her wings, they took me forever!! Totally paid off in the end though, I'm thoroughly happy with this one and I hope you guys like it too!
You're a clean inker -- that's important. However your holding lines are lacking the necessary lineweights to carry the curves from the pencils into the inks, and your detail lines are the same weight as your holding lines -- making it feel entirely flat. What tools are you using?
I didn't like the crow quill when I started out, had the same kinda frustration as you felt But you need to learn to use the tools the professionals use. I learned brush first, then moved to crow quill slowly until I learned both.
That could be mostly the type of brush you're using -- there's a specific kind that we use for linework and some of us use a different size (I ink with a #2 but know inkers who use a #3, #4 etc). The important thing though is you need to stick with it until you get better with them -- just like we did. If you give up on those tools you won't learn.
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