Any advice on inking stuff on GIMP? I know there's an option on Paint Tool SAI that helps with inking or something like that... What? told me. Is there an equivalent of that option in GIMP? Please let me know! I really want to ink some stuff on the computer, instead of inking a sketch then scanning it...
There's a couple of things you can do. The way I do it is I usually scan in the sketch, open GIMP, make a layer behind the sketch and fill that with white. I then lower the opacity of the sketch layer to around 70%. I make a third layer on top of the sketch layer, call it "lines" so I don't forget, then take the paintbrush and make it somewhere between 3-5 pixels. Then I ink, and when I finish I just delete the sketch layer. There's a pen-like tool in there too, called a path tool, but I never use it. If I want/need straight or angled lines, I just use the paintbrush an hold down the Shift key to get straight lines. This tutorial I just found explains things a little better than I just did.
I'm not much of an artist, so I don't know, but I would think for most inking the path tool would just be a lot more trouble than it is worth. Though for certain lines it would be really helpful to make it really smoothed out. I guess there is a matter of what you are inking though. I imagine it would work a lot better for inking up objects like a building or a car, it just doesn't perform as well in more haphazard places.
