After the Detailed pencil is approved it is transfered to a piece of scratchboard. The pencil sketch which is transfered to the board acts as a roadmap when doing the inking.

I begin the inking for this illustration by outlining the entire figure with ink. After the figure is entirely outlined with ink there is no further need for the light pencil lines, so they are removed with a kneeded eraser. With the pencil lines removed, I then fill in the darkest areas with solid black ink.

Tip:
Erase the pencil lines after doing a simple (thin lines) ink outline of the entire drawing. Erasing the pencil lines will also remove some of the ink from the inked lines, so it is best to do any erasing early. Most of the inked outline will be scratched away, so it does not matter if those lines are effected somewhat by erasing. Do not wait until the ink rendering is finished before erasing the pencil lines.

See digital photos of the basic stages of the rendering.