Example Sentences

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Disney met his wife at the offices, after the company hired her to work as an inker who traced the animators’ drawings onto celluloid sheets to be photographed for production.

From New York Times • Apr. 18, 2023

“Technology has reversed the order of artistic importance in comics from penciler-inker-colorist to penciler-colorist-inker. As an inker, I hate to say that,” he said.

From New York Times • Nov. 13, 2019

“Marie Severin did it all — penciler, inker, colorist, character creator,” historian and publisher Craig Yoe, the former creative director of Jim Henson’s Muppets, wrote in an email.

From Washington Post • Aug. 30, 2018

An artist is deciding this, an inker is deciding this, and the colorist is also deciding this.

From Slate • Oct. 19, 2017

Morse, 132, 145; code, 128; inker, 142; sounder, 132.

From How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Williams, Archibald