[Cuddly]

Hi all,

I've been stretching my drawing and painting muscles again after being away from the forum for so long and was wondering about something.

Most artwork I do starts life as a line drawing (and unless you're Craig Mullins, I assume it's the same for most of us). My question is how do you go from a line drawing to a painting and avoid the "paint-within-the-lines" syndrome?

Do you paint over the original lines?

[thinkwink]

When I use a line drawing as guide, I do it in Photoshop, so I generally knock the line drawing layer's opacity back to 50% or so and paint on a layer underneath...

[zak]

i just use really embarrasing lineart. if i know im not going to use the lineart in the final image, i dont usually spend more than a mminute on the lines. once ive nailed down the basic shapes, i just toss the outline. :P