Penciler vs. Inker

A narrow, generally cylindrical implement for writing, drawing, or marking, consisting of a thin rod of graphite, colored wax, or similar substance encased in wood or held in a mechanical holder.

The inker (sometimes credited as the finisher or embellisher) is one of the two line artists in traditional comic book production. The penciller creates a drawing, the inker outlines, interprets, finalizes, retraces this drawing by using a pencil, pen or a brush.

Something shaped or used like a pencil, especially a narrow medicated or cosmetic stick

A device or machine that applies ink.

A style or technique in drawing or delineating.

A person who operates or maintains a machine that applies ink.

Descriptive skill

An artist who applies black lines to a drawing or sketch, using pen and ink or a digital graphics program.

An artist's brush, especially a fine one.

(Informal) A tattoo artist.

(Physics) A beam of radiant energy in the form of a narrow cone or cylinder.

A person or device that applies ink.

(Mathematics) A family of geometric objects, such as lines, that have a common property, such as passage through a given line in a given plane.

In comic book production, a person who outlines and otherwise embellishes the artwork of a penciler in preparation for publishing.

To write or produce by using a pencil.

A tattoo artist.

To mark or color with or as if with a pencil.

One who, or that which, inks; especially, in printing, the pad or roller which inks the type.

In comic book production, a person who develops the plot and creative content, and draws an outline to be filled in by an inker.