Inkspace is not strictly an inking program. You could ofcourse use it to ink out sketches that you can just scan and place it in a layer under your canvas and use it as a tracing tool to ink out the sketch. But it is more.
Inkscape is a vector graphics program, that is similar to Corel Draw, Adobe Illustrator and Freehand. It though is an open source vector graphics editor (available at
http://inkscape.org) unlike the others.
Before some one asks, what is vector graphics - vector graphics unlike raster graphics are not composed of pixels. They are composed of points, lines, bezier curves, polygons and the like. (I have written on related topic at my blog -
Vector Art). It can be zoomed and rotated to any degree (atleast theoretically) and still not loose its crispness and neatness.
And with respect to the above works - I was inspired by the works of Kevin Cornel. He does great illustrations for the articles at
A List Apart.
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