Digital Inking For Beginners

asked me to colour a picture for her (this one: [link]), so I thought I'd go a step extra and make a tutorial. This first part explains how to ink your drawings as well as providing a few general Photoshop lessons aimed at beginners. Hopefully it'll benefit anyone who's new to the software.

It wound up being a loooong tutorial, with an unfortunately big image size, but that's necessary so you can zoom in on the screenshots. Part two, which covers colouring, can be found here: [link]