Manga Colored Inks-Help!

[damatte]

I'm trying different stuff to color my art nowadays, and I read that Emura uses colored ink, so I figgered I can try it out. I got the inks (although I need better colors...) but.....are they supposed to be PERMANENT?! o_0 I spilled a bit on my finger and I was orange for a day! ><

[GTK]

hahaha XD Most ink is sorta permanent. My hands are currently blue and black *giggle, snort* It'll come off pretty easy though, with some soap and water. There's this orange stuff called GoJo (I think) that works really well also. It smells yummy ^_^ If you are worried about getting ink on your clothes, there's this stuff that's sorta like a soapy eraser and it comes in a tube thingy sorta like chap stick only bigger. I don't have one with me at the moment though (in a library... but you'd think I'd have one since I just got out of class ^^; messy, messy). If you are really interested, I can check and see what it is when I get home cause it's really helpful (and saved my fave shirt *love*)

I don't know who Emura is though O_o; Are you using actual ink (like out of a bottle?) or ink pens or some such?

[damatte]

Yeah, I'm intrested in that eraser stuff. I bought ink in a bottle...is there better inks? I don't know what brand I have right now, so...yeah...

Emura's the creator of W Juliet, she isn't very popular but I still love her work ^^

[kitsunekami]

i own a bunch of colored inks in bottles.... but i usually don't use that for coloring front pages. i don't think it works that well... and shading sucks.....

[damatte]

Well what does everyone else use for coloring front pages and such? I've considered like copic markers, but I have a feeling they'd rip you off since so many artists use it, that and I absolutely hate markers...bad memories -_-;;;;

[GTK]

[quote name='damatte']Well what does everyone else use for coloring front pages and such? I've considered like copic markers, but I have a feeling they'd rip you off since so many artists use it, that and I absolutely hate markers...bad memories -_-;;;;[/quote]

I actually rather like copic markers ^^;; but I don't own very many of them (I bought a small set to try them out). I like them better than most markers I've used, but I also use Tria.

As for using colored ink, I always used them in washes... sort of like water color (I know Sho_u Tajima does the same thing and colors most of his work this way). It takes a while to get used to though, because you have to work with it quickly since you can't sort of blend it later (like you could with water color).

You can shade with it really easily if you make several washes (light, medium, dark, whatever). You just add water to it.


and I totally misplaced that soapy eraser thing I mentioned ~_~ so I can't find it to tell you what it is. I think it's called something really weird like "Kiss Off" or something like that. It's in a white sort of tubey thing with red letters on it.

[damatte]

Ooh...okay, by the way, what brand of inks is good? I remember going to Michael's and finding out you can only get inks by asking one of the managers or something. So, jsut to be more exact, which is good that is avaliable at Michaels?