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joulee — Cleaning up lines tutorial II
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Edit: Eyes tutorial, featuring this same character, is up: [link]A sister tutorial to the last Cleaning up Lines Tutorial [link] I really appreciated the feedback that I got, so thank all of you, and I'm glad it was helpful to some.
A lot of people mentioned that it's hard for them to sketch cleanly, so the last tutorial didn't really apply. I have the same problem, and it takes a looooot of extra work on paper (erase, erase, draw, erase) to get pencil lines clean enough to start coloring off of. So.... that's why I often turn to Digital Inking!
Here are some of the ways that I do Digital Inking. I know the "trace directly over the original image" is probably the most common method, but it's hard to do without a tablet and also hard for people with unsteady hands, so that's why I talked a bit about other methods.
As usual, comments/feedback appreciated so I can incorporate them into future projects. Thanks and
to all of you!
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Thank you so much for this useful tutorial i really like it !
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Thank you really much for this tutorial! I have lots of sketches, but never knew how to make the lines look good, cause I'm drawing really messy lines...
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this is going to sound really bad... i have a newer version of photoshop, and can't seem to even FIND the pen tool, let alone use it. any advice?
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nvm, sorry. i figured out that my version of photoshop doesn't COME with pen tool. sorry to bother you, and this is great. what version of photoshop do you have?
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You prolly have photoshop elements. I use to have elements and it's like a watered down version of photoshop; it lacks a bunch of stuff including the pentool.
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gah great, you're right and I've heard that about elements. gah. do you know what kind I should get by chance?? Sorry to bug you!
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No worries, I'm happy to help. If you want the pen tool then you need to obtain a copy of any CS photoshop. I have CS6. I suggest looking on youtube if you are feeling...nonpayful, if you catch my drift >.>
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thank you so much!
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question: uhmm what resolution and canvas size do you usually work on in order to avoid pixelated lines? Please hellppppppp
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Thank you for both of them, their great and very useful, I always have problem with inking, I like to ink by hand because digitally its a pain. My problem is that after i ink, i try to erase the rest of the pencil marks and the ink end up getting ligher from the eraser. :\ I even wait til its done drying and it still does that. Its frustrating. Im gonna try what you've shown me and hopefully I might get a better result.
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Well, Noob question, but how do you view the tutorial? lol
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sorry, someone asked below, nevermind
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Lovely<3 could you do a tutorial on adding the colour though?
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thank you! its so hard to find a line tutorial for mouse-artists!
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How do I get it too work? All I see is a pic of a girl:I
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You click the 'download image' beside~ :3
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You're welcome >W<
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if you use portable SAI (the free version of Paint tool SAI [link] ) it's a thing called smoothing that makes your line go slower and you get lots of time to decide where it's gonna go, it sadly only works with a tablet but it's the best thing ever happened to me (i have a very shaky hand) and it's really easy c: it's different numbers, like 1 - 15 is to make your line less shaky, and S-1 to S-7 makes it go slower. super easy and it does not take as long time as with vectors c: the program also has a vector layer with the same features as flash and you can make curved lines (not the same way as photoshop) there too ^^ a really good program to make lineart and color in c:
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Another awesome tutorial. Thank you very much for taking the time to teach others how to make their drawing skills (on the computer) better. ^ ^
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This was very helpful!!! You're awesome
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The method makes it come out nice...but MAN is it time consuming >.@
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Thanks for the tutorial! I was looking everywhere to find one that helped me use the tablet and pen tool. ^^
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you need to download the image, to see the tutorial.
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I only got Painter, and I cannot use the pen tool for the life of me in it >< So I just use either the pen brush or a colored pencil brush
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joulee, the bit about the paths in Photoshop helps quite a bit.
I usually wind up 'inking' my art in Macromedia Freehand MX (Like Illustrator), because 'inking' in PS is just aggravating and tedious.
Thanks!
Greg
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Xd thankyou very much this was so helpful^6 do you think the same will apply for photoshop elements 7?
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Thankyou so much- I never knew how to use the pen tool in photoshop & now that I do I don't know how I ever lived without it...thankyou!!
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I thoroughly enjoyed your tutorials thank you. I also use Flash for line art.
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This seems really helpful, but I'm guessing this doesn't work on GIMP, right?
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I've tried this method on gimp, but the stroke path tool isn't really working with me, I tried emulate brush strokes, but it doesn't look anything like in the tutorial
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I tried the ink tool with simulated pressure. It's the best I can get. Maybe you should try that out once.
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nice!!
i used to line point to point in flash then use the selection tool, for the right curve.
x.x know i use mouse insetead and paintbrush in flash.
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Wow, it's the first time I can actually work with paths xD, thank you very much n.n
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This tutorial is amazing! I' so excited about finding an excellent artist who has the same problem with inking that I do. My hands are so shaky it drives me crazy lol anyway thanks so much!
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i need something for cleaning up lines since i'm a sketch artist outside of MS paint. thanks!
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