People who do calligraphy need shoulder based strokes to make those lovely flourishes (personally, I can recommend improving your handwriting as a way to improve inking), and train their arms so they can do both big and small strokes with the full arm. Your shoulders and elbows on the other hand are actually quite good at handling stress, and if you use your whole hand you will be able to make long strokes far more easily. But it’s difficult to make long strokes, and furthermore, your fingers and wrist get tired far quicker. We tend to start off using our fingers and wrist a lot during drawing, because it’s easier to be precise this way. Generally, the lower down the arm the easier it is to make precise strokes, but also the less durable the joints are for long term use. You can in fact, make different strokes depending on which muscles and joints you use to make the movement: The Fingers, the wrist and lower-arm muscles, the elbow and upper-arm muscles or the shoulder and back muscles. Notice how I mentioned up there that the magic happens between your shoulders and fingers? A bit weird, not? But perhaps, you have heard of people talking about adopting a different pose for drawing. That said, there are a few tips to make life easy: Pose ¶ Doubtlessly, inking is the Hufflepuff of drawing disciplines.

You don’t need to worry about whether you are smart enough, or are creative enough to be a good inker. On the other hand, this can be a blessing. This is because all the magic in drawing lines happens from your shoulder to your fingers, very little of it happens in your head, and your lines improve with practice. The first thing to realize about inking is that unlike anatomy, perspective, composition or color theory, you cannot compensate for lack of practice with study or reasoning.

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