When you are inking another artist's work, what do you do when their pencils break the laws of physics? Do you make the effort to correct it, or just ink it as you see it?

For example the intersection of these two chain links can't co-exist in the same physical space, so for my inks, I'm shifting the two bars out a bit so they can connect in a more real manner.

Anyone else this critical?

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  • Um maybe ask the person you're collaborating with, instead of a bunch of reddit randos.

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  • If you’re following the artists lines exactly, that’s just tracing and thus making yourself useless to the overall piece- the artist could have just done it themselves (advice i was given from professional inkers)

    If you are working with an artist, have open communication to understand their intent. The art is inking is to interpret the penciller intentions and enhance the art without overtaking the artists style to push your own. There are plenty of edits made during the inking process by most artists and plenty of pencillers will leave certain areas loosely penciled to allow for that creative collaboration.

    That said, if you’re just using an image as a practice page, do what you feel ford the style, element, or whatever it is you’re working on. Assuming that you would share this, potentially to an editor to seek work, they will want to see the pencils and inks separately so they can judge an inker ability to be consistent, flexible, and where edits and additive enhancement was bright to the pencils.

    TL:DR - if a penciller is that picky, they would likely pencil everything super tight, use your judgement🤘

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    Thank you for the guidance, I very much appreciate it.

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    No problem! Dont be afraid to have fun with it, and experiment as you go.

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