Ah, ink! Looks much more familiar now, doesn't it? Inking style is like a snowflake; No two artists is exactly alike. Even more reason to develop your own, and try your best not to copy someone else's... at most, use someone's artwork as a reference to get ideas.

Using the sketches, it's a simple matter of tracing, then tossing the sketch layers... honestly there's really not a whole lot more than that. I started using a tablet to do everything past sketching not too far into ASP.

At comic #21, I tested out using thick lines. After a while, it started impacting my style, so not long ago (April/May '08), I thinned the stroke size by about half. Also, I used to ink twice: Once for outlines, and again to round out corners and add dark shading. That got toned down later on, and inking is now done in just one pass.

When I started, I wanted to avoid making everything look too much like anime/manga (because too many webcomics attempt it and fail miserably, making the whole idea seem terrible). But lately, I decided to just let my artwork do what it wants and not care how much it resembles anime; it's still my own style!