Travis James

Travis James

@travisjamesinks.bsky.social

Freelance inker and Colour Artist Canadian, geek, nerd, father, history buff, neurodivergent goofball and Liverpool FC supporter #YNWA https://lnk.bio/travisjamesinks Available for inking commissions & projects (phsyical or digital)

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And the final image! I took good pics and scans before adding the red so i could colour it digitally in the future. But i thought the splash of red would make it look good to frame up and hang on the wall.

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Angry Turtle Part 2 Bluelined pencils printed out on 11x17 strathmore bristol 300 smooth plate Inks done with a 1:1 mix of higgins eternal and kurtake zig special black 60 Using a one-dip-nib and no2 round sable brush by TomsStudio

Working on a commission with some halftone, stay tuned at the end for a message from the INHERITANCE team My first full comic, INHERITANCE is in its final 42 hours on kickstarter My inks and colours on a story by Doug Wood and pencils by Brendan Albetski #comicart #indiecomics #kickstarter

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With 48 hours to go we still have over 100 followers waiting to take a plunge. If we could get a few to kick us off we would have a chance at our goal. @brendanalbetski.bsky.social and @travisjamesinks.bsky.social and I promise its worth your hard earned money! www.kickstarter.com/projects/174...

kickstarter.comInheritance #1He never wanted to apart of his supervillain dad’s life. Now he stands to inherit it all, including those buddies who want a piece…

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Its a NEW DAY! That means only 9 days and $1,971 remain for our goal. @brendanalbetski.bsky.social is a brilliant artist who is offering a chance to get sketch cards from him on the cheap. Only 1 of @travisjamesinks.bsky.social inked pages remain. Help this team! www.kickstarter.com/projects/174...

kickstarter.comInheritance #1He never wanted to apart of his supervillain dad’s life. Now he stands to inherit it all, including those buddies who want a piece…

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Travis, Brendan and I have had a blast getting this comic started. You backing it will allow us to get it finished! Snag a reward tier today

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If you havent headed over to the campaign for INHERITANCE (my first comic of Inks and Colours)(kickstarter.com/projects/1741339986/inheritance-5 Story by @dougawood.bsky.social and Pencils by @brendanalbetski.bsky.social #canadianartist #canadianart #inheritance #indiecomic #indiecomics

Timelapse of commission WIP Minor tweaking left before printing out blueline to ink #comics #commmicart #penciler #spiderman #peterparker #comicartist #artcommission #commissionsopen #commissionedart #marvel #marvelcomics #dailybugle #nycwallcrawler #webhead #thwip #clipstudio #xppen

Timelapse of finishing that Venom from yesterday. My inks on pencils by Marcio Abreu #comicart #inking #comicinks #blackandwhite #blackandwhiteart #fountainpen #inker #venom #eddiebrock #thekinginblack #klyntar #symbiote #lethalprotector #marvel #marvelcomcis #marvel616

INHERITANCE is live on kickstarter! (Link Below!) Todays WIP Venom, my inks on pencils by Marcio Abreu #comicart #inking #comicinks #blackandwhite #blackandwhiteart #fountainpen #inker #venom #eddiebrock #thekinginblack #klyntar #symbiote #lethalprotector #marvel #marvelcomcis #marvel616

For the Venom I used a zebra titanium G nib on a fountain pen by ackerman pens (Brilliant pens for traditional quills, definitely worth trying out. Check back in tomorrow for timelapse of finishing it off from this point!

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My inks on some Scot Eaton pencils from 2022 If you havent checked it out yet, my first comic where i do the inks and colours for the full issue is live on kickstarter! (link in the comments) #comics #xmen #marvel6167 #excalibur #forge #xmenlegends #scoteaton #claremont #blackandwhite #inking

INHERITANCE is live on kickstarter now! Doug, Brendan, and I sat down with Ink & Insight as well as Fugitive Poems Comics for their podcasts to talk about Inheritance and nerd out about comics! #kickstarter #comics #comicartist #comicbooks #indiecomic #indiecomics #colorartist #inker #comicinker

Inks and colors timelapse #nightwing #dickgrayson #robin #flyinggraysons #batfamily #batman #justiceleague #titans #teentitans #dc #dccomics #comicart #digitalinks #digitalart #comicartist #practice #artpractice #timelapse #timelapseart #colors #comiccolors #comicolorist

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You like comics? Would you be into a supervillain thriller? Mix in a heavy dose of family drama? Inheritance is coming soon to Kickstarter A man is set to inherit his father’s whole empire despite walking a way years before. Too bad so many supervillains think their owed a piece of the legacy

Timelapse inkreveal and a few comparisons between pencils and inks. These pages are all from Scot Eaton from X-Men Legends no.12 (2022) with story by Chris Claremont. #xmen #mutants #timelapse #nightcrawler #shadowcat #lockheed #inking #penandink #blackandwhite #marvel #marvelcomics #marvel616

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Id be curious to see where others weigh in on this, maybe I'm biased because of my focus and all the work at it for the last year and 100+ pages later. Don't get me wrong, different inkers have different styles for sure, some very very recognizable, but I cant help but think that when you get

down to it, there is still a fundamental right way and wrong way to do it. A difference between something being Inked vs being Line-art. What do you think? Do you prefer a certain style? Do you see/notice a difference? Does it make a difference to you when reading a comic?

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by multiple publishers that are "inked" with a lot of cleanup needing to be done that shouldn't have been published. Whats been drilled into me is that with comic art we are taking a 3d object and displaying it as a 2d image, which means we have to work as artists to give it volume and life.

Line weight is the biggest way to do this, as a part of an object gets closer to the camera, the line weights should be thicker, the farther away it is, the thinner it should be. This is what helps create the volume of illusion. Now my son, tried to argue that its a matter of style.

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I was fortunate enough to come to the attention of a pro inker with 20+ years of experience (12 professionally) and get a lot of one on one coaching and feedback on virtually every piece ive posted. Inking, is NOT just covering your pencil lines in black. It is interpreting what the penciler has

laid down, and enhancing it. With texture, with shading, with perspective. Ive been handed pages to colour and seen pages included for talent searches by publishers that are "inked" where ive had to go back and pretty much re-ink the entire page before tackling the colours. Even published pages

IF you look at the two black and white versions, they ARE different. I did some of the work on a separate layer as an example to show my son in the difference between line-art or tracing, vs Inking. Pardon the proverbial proselytizing but here goes... If you have been following me at all

you know my focus for the last year and a bit has been working towards being an inker. Lots of reading, lots of practice, lots and lots of lines pulled with pretty much any kind of pen or brush you can think of capable of laying down a black line. I read books by Martin, by Janson, and others.

Did this piece up the other night. Original is a sketch by Casey Jones. Ive been experimenting a lot more with colour to branch out in addition to my inks and I upgraded my Veikk to an XPPen #wintersoldier #buckybarns #marvel #marvel616 #supersoldier #comics #comicart #comiccolours #inking #inker

Oh wow, okay yeah been a while since ive posted. Not that I'm not active, just that I seem to keep forgetting about bluesky with everything else going on! Okay a few updates coming, so hang tight as I try to catch everyone up! I am a lot more active on my TT and insta to stay more up to date!

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Big shout out to @travisjamesinks.bsky.social who I met through the Yeti discord. He has an infectious drive to make comics. Inspiring me to do more. So lucky that he offered to work with me when the previous artist bailed on the project. His inks and colors are 👨‍🍳 Art by Brendan Albetski