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>sketch looks decent
>try to do lineart
>looks like something traced, all forms gone

every time

>> No.4184571

>>4184567
Take the next month (or more) focusing on your lineart and inking skills then. Sounds like your line weight needs work.

>> No.4184591

>looks like something traced
technically you're tracing the best parts of your sketch

>> No.4184628

>>4184567
That means you were relying on messy lines to give a good appearance to your drawing

>> No.4184654

>>4184567
on scrap paper sketch with ink individual parts (head, hands ect), that helps you get an idea of what you want before doing it on the actual pencil sketch.

>> No.4184658

>>4184567
Try to do an inbetween sketch before going straight to inking. Maybe your sketch is too messy

>> No.4184666

>>4184654
Seconding this. Drawing directly in ink gave me a much better feel for what I should be doing when inking over something. Your ink sketches can be wonky and have mistakes, but they should have confident lines in the style you're aiming for.

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>>4184567
This happens because of lineweight.
The messiness of your sketch will have some lineweight that look interesting, but if you simply draw over it without properly deciding where the line should taper/thicken, it will lose all life.

>> No.4184691

sketches always look better.

>> No.4184701

>>4184628
This, if you sketch is full off chicken scratches and super thick and undefined lines, you can kind of "see" the idealised version of your sketch that you have in your mind, but it's not actually concretely there on the page. then when you go over the over-rendered sketch with neat lines, you lose sight of that idealised sketch and just follow the old lines almost aimlessly.

first of all just get better at sketching, make more confident lines etc. and then actually analyse your sketch properly, try to figure out which parts are overlapping which, where is the light and shadow, how does the line flow. and then study line-weight and try again.

>> No.4184781

>>4184567
Zoom out, clean it later

>> No.4184784

>>4184685
This. learned this the hard way.

>> No.4186004

>>4184701
Not OP, but thank you so much for posting this. You seriously helped me out with my art here. Thank you.

>> No.4186029

>>4184567
Why do you think "inker" is its own job for comics? Did you think it was easy?
Suggesting what you want through multiple lines is one thing. Saying exactly what you want with one single line is a lot harder. Just practice and you'll get better at it. Some people will try and say "your underlying drawing was never good and when you clean it up you clearly see how bad it was", and that may have some truth to it in some cases, but blaming it ALL on the underlying drawing ignores the inherent difficulty of good inking.

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4186115

>>4184567
>he doesn't clean the sketch layer
Cringe and ngmi

>> No.4186505

>>4184567
this used to happen to me all the time so i just skipped the sketch to ink phase and just ink from the beginning, like kjg does. funny enough i did this before i knew of him

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>>4184567
>Sketch looks decent
>Start adding color and shadows
>Slowly turning into an uncanny monster

>> No.4186645

Honestly, it sounds like everyone in this thread has never actually made a finished piece and doesn't know what the whole process feels like.
Is every line you put down in you first sketch perfect? No? Do you have to erase and correct things until they look good? Yes? Then why wouldn't it be the same for lineart and colors too? You're gonna make mistakes, you're gonna learn things about the piece as you go along, you have to keep banging away at your shitty version 1 until eventually it turns into an ok version 5 and finally a good version 10. If you get scared as soon as your piece starts looking bad then you're gonna have a rough time.

>> No.4186680

>>4184567
Paint over the sketch instead.

>> No.4186682

>>4186115
I will try this next time