What is washing and how is it different from inking?
Washing involves adding heavily diluted paint, and is otherwise much the same as inking. Washing tends to be more subtle, however, and is therefore useful for adding depth and tone to a color where you don’t want the more pronounced contrast that you get from inking. Washes of black will gradually darken a color, or add depth to folds during the highlighting process. Washing can also be used as a weathering technique (see below).
