[Violent1]

Whenever I try to reduce a portrait drawing to
a bare minimum of lines, i get crappy results.
What can I do to get simple line pictures
that still provide a good base for scanning
and coloring etc. in Photoshop.
Hints, Tips or Tutorials anyone?

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Violent1

[Sc00p]

I always find it helps to pencil a sketch, and do the shading in pencil, then when you ink over top (either on a light table, or tracing paper) just follow all your pencil lines, and fill solid black, or hatching where you had your gradiated pencil lines.

Then scan your ink drawing in 1200 DPI (The higher the DPI when you scan, the better it will look when you reduce it, and the more line detail that will stay intact). AND REMEMBER: Scan it in Lineart! (Photoshop calls it "bitmap" mode, some scanners call it "black/white document" instead of black/white photo. YOU DO NOT WANT A GREYSCALE ink drawing to work with. This makes the edges of your fills messy because all your lines are antialiased, not to mention it makes your shapes harder to select and fill.

So ya...there's a few tips for getting nice line work when you draw/scan. Hope it helps somewhat, good luck!



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Rene Antunes
www.nytro.org
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[- Dasyati -]

A lot of people actually recommend scanning grayscale and then cranking up the brightness/contrast to get nice clean lines...in which case you should be filling in the colors on separate layers in order to properly color an antialiased drawing.

[Sc00p]

Well, NOT scanning in greyscale is for the good of everything, for coloring and especially printing. If you ever plan to print lineart in greyscale, it creates a lot of messy jagged lines, and stray dots everywhere, which you don't want.

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Rene Antunes
www.nytro.org
[email protected]