Short inking video

by Kaija on Sunday, March 10th, 2013

Posted in: Art, Comics, making of RFR
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While I was inking the new “100 facebook likes” illustration, Silver sneaked up behind me and recorded a short video over my shoulder. This sparked a conversation about the possibility of making longer inking videos and posting them online.

Neither of us has any experience with this, so you’ll have to be patient while we go through a trial and error process. We’ve already thrown out one video because it turned out to be of such poor quality that it hurt to look at the jumpy and wavy end result. I think this means we’ll be adding a tripod and possibly a new video camera to our grocery list. Until that happens though, we might just experiment with short clips that Silver will be shooting from time to time.

If anyone has a more in depth understanding of video cameras or any good tips we’d be grateful to get the help :)

 

A little info about the video:

You can see me using white ink to ink the lines on the black background. The ink is “Dr. Ph. Martin’s pen-white” and it’s the first whiteout tool that has worked for me so well, that I’ve started using it simply as white ink when I need clean, white linework done. It’s thicker than normal ink, so the lines come out a tad thicker than the black ones. With some practise and a small nib (maru-pen for example) it works pretty well though.

 

– Kaija