photoshop?

[crazymew]

ok... can someone find me a tutorial (or tell me how) that tells me how to make my drawing...

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i57/crazymew/other/rei.png

turn out to be like this one?

http://www.cablenet.ne.jp/~japanime/howto/tutorial/cgt07.jpg

the second one is all clean and crisp, nice black outline, like you could colour it easily in paint or something...

also, maybe a colouring tutorial in photoshop? i have adobe photoshop 7.0... but i dunno how to use it...

 

[Sketch]

Actually, to go from that to the other pic, you really need to clean up the lines in the original drawing first. Otherwise, when you try and clean it up, and make it looks sharper, you'll end up destroying/distorting your original so badly, you may as well have left it as it was originally.

Work more on making simple, clean lines, and try inking it before you scan it in (Always shows up crisper and cleaner than pencils)

 

[Aran]

hey, crazymew, look in my topic. I'm asking the same thing

 

[crazymew]

originally? this is what my drawing looked like before i used auto-contrast on it... is that what you mean? how do i make him have lining that looks like the picture?

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i57/crazymew/other/rei-1.png

 

[Shadow_Strike]

well, firstly, that image reference you posted may have been a large picture, cleaned up, then shrunk, to get an even sharper effect.

Secondly, your lines are too thick. Thats the thing, youre gonna have to draw very fine if you want the computer to do everything for you.

I believe it was the level option in photoshop. By moving the arrows around, you can darken the darks and remove the greys, leaving you with only the dark.

The best way to go about doing this? Patience and a good hand.

 

[SoULWaKe]

what sketch said is true, the sketch is really good but the lines are too big in my opinion, try keeping your pencil sharpened the whole time during drawing, or you can always add a new layer once you load up your picture in like photoshop, then what i do is use the line tool to darken my linework by tracing all of it, if that doesnt help u out just check out deviantart.com and type in "lineart tutorial" or linework tutorial and something will pop up, good luck man!

 

[Joy]

Best thing to do?

1: Take that scanned image and blow it up to as close as you can get to a fill 8.5 x 11 image, crop all the excess white space around it and resize it to 8.5 x 11.

2: Print that image on some plain ol' printer paper.

3: Get a sheet of tracing paper and tack it down to the printed imagewith scotch tape.

4: Using either a fineline pen (such as a 01 Pigma Micron or a Fine Faber Castell Pitt pen), retrace those lines as thin, smooth and clean as possible. You may go through several sheets of tracing paper until you get the feel for it.

5: once you have a clean, inked image, remove the tracing paper from the printed sketch sheet carefully, put a clean sheet of white paper behind it and scan that.

6: In photoshop, open your adjust layers window, slide the white and black arrows (the ones on the far left and right) in towards the center until the background white becomes true white (some scanners make it look light grey) and until your lines are dark enough for your preference.

That should do it.

 

[Atnas]

Use the pen tool in photoshop. It works like a charm if you have patience.

 

[BlueScope]

You'll most likely look down on me by now, but I'll still try to help you ^_^

In my artwork thread, notes section, you can find a link to a tutorial on how I do my outlining with the pen tool, as Atnas suggested. If you don't check the pressure checkbox, you're able to draw simple path lines that should match the ones in the second image you posted in the first post... if you use a thin brush and then apply a 100% contrast, you get exact lines which you can use to color the areas between them... you could also color them in Photoshop while you're on it, of course, but I don't have a coloring tutorial on my hands unfortunately...

 

[crazymew]

a tutorial in yer thread? also... with the line tool, how thick should it be when i outline my art with it?

 

[SoULWaKe]

when i do it with the line tool, usually the smallest which is 1px (but it's all up to how u want it to turn out), i have no idea how to turn off the anti-aliasing but take a look at the picture I drew and colored using this method in my art thread (zander), i used the line tool on all the linework and thats how it turned out, but like bluescope and atnas said you can you the pen tool too, I havent tried this way yet.

 

[crazymew]

ah i see, i'll try this out...

edit: if things dont turn out the way i want them is it possible to request this?

edit (again): now... when yer done going over the lines (i used the paintbrush thingy) is it supposed to look something like this?

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i57/crazymew/other/reifromphotoshop.png

 

[Siege]

This is very helpful...LINK

It gives tips on colouring too.

 

[crazymew]

ok, i'm looking at the link now, it's gonna take awhile to load up tho...

anywho, here is rei i coloured in paint! hehe...

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i57/crazymew/other/reicoloured.png

im gonna go read that tutorial now...

edit: thats a tutorial of how to colour, right now tho im looking for how to make the lineart better, but thank you for this, i'm gonna bookmark it for future use

 

[Siege]

okay i just thought it might help a little because of the levels part at the beggining, shows how to use it correctly. Anyhooo nice job in paint. I dont think shading is needed i like the symplistic style.

 

[crazymew]

heh, thanks, i'll be sure to look more at that tutorial too, thank you all for sharing these with me