Coloring

In comic books a colorist is responsible for adding color to black and white line drawings. For most of the 20th century this was done using brushes and dyes which were then used as guides to produce the printing plates. Since the late 20th century it is most often done using digital media, with printing separations produced electronically.
Originally, comics were colored by cutting out films of various densities in the appropriate shapes to be used in producing color-separated printing plates. The typical colorist worked from photocopies of the inked pages, which they colored with special dyes. Dr. Martin's Dyes was a brand notable in this field within the comic strip industry. CMYK codes were written on the page to indicate the final printed colors, and these hand-colored pages were used as guides by the engraver. Tatjana Wood was the main colorist for DC Comics' covers from 1973 through the mid 1980s.
More recently, colorists have worked in transparent media such as watercolors or airbrush, which is then photographed, allowing more subtle and painterly effects.

Inking yeh

An inker is one of the two line artists in comic books or graphic novels. After the penciller had finished his sketches he hands them to the inker who uses black ink to produce refined outlines over the pencil lines. The ink is a applied with a pen but can also be done digitally. The inker is responsible for every black line on the page except for lettering. Inkers however are less recognised than pencillers because essentialy they are just drawinbg over the pencillers work.

 

Pencilling

A penciller is someone who works in pencil. different artists however use a wide variety of different tools. Many artists use traditional wood pencils, whereas others use mechanical pencils or drafting leads. Pencillers can use any lead hardness they feel necessary, although many artists use a harder lead like 2H to make light lines for initial sketches, then turn to a slightly softer lead for finishing phases of the drawing. Still other artists do their initial layouts using a light blue coloured pencil because that color tends to disappear during photocopying. Most US comic book pages are drawn over-sized on large sheets of paper, usually Bristol Board. The customary size of comic book pages in the mainstream American comics industry is 11 by 17 inches. The pencillers work is then drawn over by the inker.