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apiro · Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2002 11:41 pm

hello to everyone.. i figure i should introduce myself before popping in and asking random questions.. well, i've been lurking at this forum for about a month now, and you're all amazing at digital art. myself, i'm well.. working at perfecting my skills. i'm 15, and i've been doodling for my whole life, but i've only started to seriously work on my art in 2001. so, obviously, i'm no renoir here, but i'm working on getting better. so if you guys wouldn't mind giving me some advice here and there on my work, that would be awesome.. you sound like nice people.

some art forums are really cliquey about who posts, but you don't seem to be that sort of people. it's great. people respond even in the wee hours of the morning here.. looks like i'm not the only one who's up using photoshop at 3:00am.. heh.

now, i know that this is going to sound like a horribly newbie-ish question.. but i had a few questions about cleaning up my paper sketches and turning them into clean line art, like this picture here (which, by the way, was not drawn by me)

i use photoshop right now, and what i've been doing is simply creating a new layer over my scanned-in sketch and drawing in the lines with the paintbrush tool. now, as you might imagine, the results are.. well.. not as great as they might be. i've heard some good things about adobe illustrator, and i think my dad said that he might be able to get a copy for me to install, but my question to you is.. have any of you used illustrator for line-art type stuff? is it as good as they say it is, or should i not bother? and my second question would be.. if i don't end up getting adobe illustrator, would you have any tips for cleaner lineart in photoshop?

that's about it.. but thanks for reading and (hopefully) replying.. ::crosses fingers::

Wraaath · junior member Member # Joined: 20 Nov 2001 Posts: 3

Illustrator is much better than Photoshop when it comes to line art, so I'd get it if you can, but you can certainly get by without it. There's a quick tutorial on Polykarbon: http://www.polykarbon.com/tutorials/scanning/scan.htm about adjusting scans that should help.

Sukhoi · Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2002 3:29 am

I just want say welcome to you Sir!

Sukhoi

apiro · Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2002 12:30 am

awesome! thanks for the link.. i'll try that method next time..

and by the way.. i guess it was rather ambiguous but.. i'm a ma'am. not sir. heeh.

edible snowman · member Member # Joined: 12 Sep 2000 Posts: 998

you could also trace over it with the path tool.

VanhoozerArt · Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2002 2:33 pm

If you can get a copy of Illustrator, it will really help you if clean crisp lines are what you are after. It is worth it I think.

And welcome Ms. Apiro.....

AoD · Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2002 4:05 pm

a light table and a good hand at tracing your own works might help as well.

oh yeah, and welcome.

apiro · Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2002 4:29 pm

jeremy.. i went perusing through your site just now.. and i had a couple of questions. so you worked at disney for a while? that's awesome.. what with me being in high school, we're always being prodded to think of what we want to do with our lives after we graduate, and for me, one of my options that i was going to look into was to try character designing at disney. so, i was thinking, it'd be great to get a first-hand sort of opinion on what it's like.. so if it's not too much of a bother, would you mind telling me a little about what that job involves? what a typical day would be like, and how you went about getting an internship there? also.. did you go to a special art college, if so.. which one?

thanks in advance for reading and responding.. assuming you do..