So, for my last few strips, I've been inking my lines instead of doing them in pencil. When it works, it looks way better. When it doesn't, it's rather lifeless and crude-looking.
My biggest frustration inking the pages is that inevitably, the paper where I need to ink is just a tiny bit off the drawing surface. So when I put the pen on it, I have to be very careful that it doesn't move all of a sudden when I push down to draw the lines. Crouching way over and holding the paper in place makes my lines, and my neck, very stiff.
Now, I'm already using a paper towel under my drawing hand to keep oils and sweat from my skin off the page, and that helps, but is there some way to force the whole damn page to just lay flat?
My biggest frustration inking the pages is that inevitably, the paper where I need to ink is just a tiny bit off the drawing surface. So when I put the pen on it, I have to be very careful that it doesn't move all of a sudden when I push down to draw the lines. Crouching way over and holding the paper in place makes my lines, and my neck, very stiff.
Now, I'm already using a paper towel under my drawing hand to keep oils and sweat from my skin off the page, and that helps, but is there some way to force the whole damn page to just lay flat?
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Falcon Twin
Falcon Twin
lol, for example, right now, i have my foot on the desk, and the keybo\rd balancing on my foot between the desk and the kb...anyway~ i sit the morta/er board on my lap and use a bulldog clip, it keeps the paper perfectly in place. but~ i guess thats not really valid, since~ you most likely wont use the same weird method i've always liked 
