Once the final pencil is approved, I print out full-sized versions with any corrections that were made (I usually do layout and print corrections in Photoshop). I place those pencils on a light table and draw the ink lines, using Higgins cartoonists Black ink, Waverly nib dip pens, and sable brushes on Strathmore drawing paper. I like the Strathmore, because the ink doesn’t spread or bleed on me too much. After the inks are created and dry, I scan them into Photoshop so that I have a plain ink version of the pages. After the inks are scanned in, I will usually replace the pencil version of the dummy with an ink version (at least digitally), so that I can see the true finished line of the book without color. Separating the ink out also allows for coloring a line digitally without affecting the interior color of an image.
