Ronin Studio's The VENGER - DEAD MAN RISING - Inked Version (finally)

[Xero Khan]

MY INKS:
http://www.ggmedia.us/art/venger_final_resized.jpg

ARCTISTICBLASTS PENCILS:
http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c317/artisticblasts/Pinups/venger_bw.jpg

Finally have this posted, sorry it took so long. These are my inks over ArtisticBlasts' pencils, I messed up badly on the skyscrapers but tweaked them in Photoshop in order to avert a total disaster. I hope y'all think it's decent.

Sakura Microns were used for the initial inks, with background touch-ups in Photoshop.

Total time to complete was ten hours by hand, and eight hours in Photoshop fixing my background mistakes.

[Giddy1]

Your lines are way too thick in the background man. The figure lines ae cool. They bring him out to the front of the pic the way they should. But the backgound should hang back in the piece.
Thin out the lines going to the background more, and the lines at the windows edge, thin those out too, so that the floor seperaters jut out more, pushing the windows further into the building.

[ArtisticBlasts]

Giddy1 got the point there, Xero Khan. The inking works on the background buildings looks too thick. You might want to fix it. As for the overall inking piece, I see something different compared to the original pencil lineart. The upper torso to the head somehow looks odd. Did you somehow stretched it in the Photoshop? If you do, you might want to fix it so that it looks a lot more like the original pencil lineart.

That's my 2 cents. By the way, I really like the way you ink, very clear inks. Thanks for inking my work, man. :)

[Xero Khan]

Giddy1 got the point there, Xero Khan. The inking works on the background buildings looks too thick. You might want to fix it. As for the overall inking piece, I see something different compared to the original pencil lineart. The upper torso to the head somehow looks odd. Did you somehow stretched it in the Photoshop? If you do, you might want to fix it so that it looks a lot more like the original pencil lineart.

That's my 2 cents. By the way, I really like the way you ink, very clear inks. Thanks for inking my work, man. :)

I may have accidentally stretched it a bit when I made the 500px width image for DW's guidelines, but I was very conservative with my inking of the figure and kept all of your lines intact.

I'll put a fixed version up, but so far I can already tell that I'm gonna hear a lot about the buildings (which I addressed in the original post). I'm wondering how I can justify putting possibly another half of a day into completely tweaking the buildings in Photoshop, because, all in all, that'll amount to a total of 24 hours on one piece (a piece that honestly should, at most, take only half of that time to complete).

If people really wanna see the buildings fixed then I'll go ahead and put the extra time into it. I didn't wanna post this obviously flawed inkjob in the first place, but I promised that I would and I had to put something up here. The buildings'll take a while to fix, but I can have it up before the end of the week and do it when I'm not asleep or at my job.

Like I said, I feel bad about messing up what should've been a routine inking job. Anyone who's seen my other stuff knows I put a shitload of time into the inking. I'm kinda embarrassed and feel as if I've done a disservice to the pencils.

Lemme know if y'all wanna see a fix and I'll put the hours in on it if there's interest.

[ArtisticBlasts]

Xero Khan,

Please feel free to do whatever you think best. Although I'd love to see you fix the background buildings being inked in thin lines. What I'd like to see is that you fix that stretched-part of the drawings, so that it doesn't make it odd. After all, I can't wait to get my hands on using graphic tablet to color it. Like I said, I really like your inking style and I'm looking forward to do more collaborations with you very soon :banana:

[Giddy1]

Dude, if you think 24 hours is too long to finish a peice, I inked a 2 pager fo "Isis" #1 that took me, no joke...2 weeks to do. Wasn't on a deadline crunch, so the extra time helped me make that spread the Best I possibly could.
Take the extra time. A peice like this, at this stage of it, WILL NOT get you work, unless you get on your hands and knees and kiss some Editors ( ! ). Taking the extra time to get it RIGHT will inevitably land you publishable work in the future.