Quote Originally Posted by Tornado Joe View Post
As far as technique, I'd like to recommend one to you if you like anime:
Draw your subject
Scan it
Pull it into a vector program (such as Illustrator)
Trace the lines (using the pen tool and least amount of points possible)
Experiment with different stroke types, like marker, brush, straight, etc.
Save it
Open in Photoshop
Make sure your drawing is on the top layer then set its mode to "multiply"
Create a layer beneath it and start coloring!

It's as if you were working on a traditional animation cell.
Wait, so inking really is outdated?

In the sense that the outline can be traced in Illustrator and you have a clean scan? But won't that reduce the...smoothness? Or is the tracing in Illustrator done through the tablet?

I've just always been under the impression that anything but colouring and shading done with software turns out rather...stale, fake looking.