0 an artist who adds solid lines and extra details to the first pencil drawings for a comic, graphic novel, or animation (= a book or film whose story is told in pictures): --
Inkers ink over the pencilled lines, providing definition and shadows.
His first animation work was on Popeye, as an inker.
He spent the next 16 years as an inker and by the 1955 classic "Lady and the Tramp" had become the lead ink artist.
For a time he worked as an inker on the Richie Rich comic.
His pencilling was obscured by an inker and a colourist.
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May 10, 2021
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Shimmer
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