Ryan Benjamin's got plenty of insights on inking. If you're interested in his full critique and want to get all his tips, check out the premium course at proko.com/marvel.

this man's knowledge and what he shares, is gold.

The last person's inking style looked so cool. The black shapes having a white spacing between the edges of the area (I'm not talking about rim light) sounds like an odd choice, but turned out so nicely looking.

In the first critique, what Ryan is referring to is contour lines. Understanding how contours work will help with improving cross hatching technique and blocking in.

Heck I love inks. Miss doing it by hand. Doubt I'll ever be as practiced as these examples are but I love linework.

Thanks to Ryan Benjamin and Proko for another inspiring video.

The attention to detail is amazing... shows how important it is to work on technique! Great video!

This is incredibly helpful!

This was quite eye-opening! Can't wait to try out some of these tips later!

I love Ryan's work, and have been a fan of his ever since his contribution to the Art of Homage Studios one shot he did in 93'..... Much of what he says here is practical and over all good advice. You want to keep your inks clean, and with a directional consistency.... But that shouldn't be the focus, and I do believe he knows this himself. He's just not a trained teacher so he's missing a good deal of the foundation principles. Regardless of what technique you implement, the primary focus of your inks should be in communicating three things. First: VALUE.... Value is the lights and darks and all the tones in between. Ink is a one trick pony, meaning that it's just one value: Black. Hatching and manipulating the Shape dynamics of your core shadows and highlights are techniques used to convince the eye using Optical principles to indicate shifts in Value on the subject. This allows the FORMS of the render to be properly communicated to the eye which is the Second purpose of your inks. The Final purpose is to communicate differences in TEXTURE, which is a manipulation of the light which falls on the FORMS which are the OBJECTS being rendered. Dividing the light to it's proper place is actually how the eye's work in the first place. The work of an inker should be in solidifying the Values, Tones, Shape Dynamics of the Forms, and the perceptions of Space. As long as you do that with a good clean and consistent technique your work will sell to an audience. It's you ability to sell work that will make you employable and nothing else really. The comic industry is a business before it is anything else. Regardless of whether you know these methods and techniques your work needs to be able to generate money. If it can do that then you'll likely be hired because that's the most important thing. I mean seriously, we don't live in a world where competency and skill is rewarded. Or else how do you explain the entire music industry. All Ryan can do here, is express his personal taste and experience. He's just explaining what works for him and from the perspective of his career. What is much better, is understanding core art foundations, then develop your technique in accordance to that. Remember, it's not the celebrity artist who does the hiring at a company. It's the Chief Editor, or publisher. These people have traditionally been trained in the fundamentals. Do those right, and everything else is just a matter of taste and style.

Very instructive thank you!

Excellent video

Thank you for this video.

Yeah it's RB again with wisdom from CBOL!

Hi proko i love your videos , i've been practicing gesture drawing for 2d animation but i cant draw dynamic poses from imagination , i only can draw them from reference

Hi, was the pencil page available via the course or it was shared somewhere else? Would love to have it to practice ❤

Pls more mark morales🙏

I need some help. I've practiced drawing clean lines, and they seem good, but when I started drawing shapes, they don't appear as clean as the lines I've practiced. Have any idea of what's going on?

Where can I find Patrick on social media? I absolutely love his art style!

Hi proko

What if his channels name was penko except of proko

Fi norst

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His name is Ryan Benjamin not Mark Morales lol

Still guilty, when it comes to inking...

Why ruin the beautiful hand drawings with a digital overlay?

I thought the inking was pretty good, kind of nitpicking

bro does. not fnsh this drawing