[Paridine]

Is it ok to scan an art piece and then do digital work over it?

If so, how complete should the scanned piece be.

Should I do a raw light sketch then work it in Photoshop from there? Or do as much as I can on the drawing and then work it in photoshop?

I am not using a Wacom or any other type of tablet, I use mouse, trackball and pretty much that is it.

Here is a piece I did a few years back.

This is the scanned work.


And this is the Digitally Touched up one. (still yet to finish)



Thanks for any advice!
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[InitialT]

So long as it's your work, there's really no right or wrong in how you handle it, so long as it works for you.

I'd be careful with trying to paint over it though, because the digital color version of the pencil drawing lost most of the drawing's "soul" or delicacy.

[B0b]

nice lense flare

[eyewoo]

Heres a way to proceed that preserves the feeling of your original drawing.

1) Open the scan in Photoshop and click the little "antline" round symbol at the bottom of the Channels resource panel. The click selects all of the white areas in the scan.


2) Press Shft Ctrl "I" to invert the selection so that the lines are selected.

3) Create a new layer above the scan layer.

4) On the new layer, fill the now selected lines with a color. I like to use a dark brown.

5) Delete the scan layer.

6) Now that the scanned lines are on their own layer, create a new layer underneath the scanned lines layer and use it to add color. For this example, I quickly added flat colors. To finish the picture, I would continue by working with the areas of color to add highlighted areas and darker areas. I'd also spend time working on the scanned lines layer - lightening or darkening portions to enhance their purpose.



Of course, using this process it's important to make a good initial scan...
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[B0b]

or u could just make a new layer and use Multiply to preserve the underlying lineart..

[eyewoo]

Yep, you sure could, but that process gives you far less control over the line art. ...and, being able to create layers underneath the line art allows you to create multple layers for different colors or purposes.

The new layer in multiply mode is a nice quick, down and dirty method, but the other method provides a lot more control.
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[-HoodZ-]

ooo thnx Phil i could never figure out that channel thing =)

[eyewoo]

yupsir! Think I'm going to make a tut on that...
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[B0b]

kewl

let us know when u've had time to do it

[amichaels]

Actually, it is really a matter of personal prefference. There are several comic pros out there now who just lay colors over their pencils, which looks fantastic if the pencils are nice and tight. If you're going to do it that way though, I would suggest doing the rough sketchy part of the process with a non photo blue pencil, then doing nice tight pencils over the blue sketch, since it won't show up in the scan.