Below you’ll see all three techniques blended in to create a fairly ‘natural’ looking ink work (I admit there are small areas where drew in freehand).

Inked using all three techniques.

I know that this technique of mine may seem that inking with Photoshop can be a tedious and intimidating task, what with all the technical aspects of manipulating paths and brush dynamics. But once you get the feel for the tools and you start to have your own flow of shifting between them, it’ll be a piece of cake.

As part of this updated version, the techniques discussed here can now be viewed in this video.