sweet! that was very informative...

thanks for showing this!!! awesomee!!!

holy crap

ok so how do you go from a ink drawing to a non pixelated picture on the computer. I don;t own a scanner so I take pictures of the drawing and I am wondering if there is a trick to cleaning it up. Cause thats a whole lot stuff to clean up

the only trick i can think of is to buy a scanner lol. maybe kinkos has scanners? prolly a rip off though. my scanner is years old and pretty cheap and does a good enough job. i know what you mean though, taking a photo leaves a lot of cleanup. with my scanner you just scan it as a black and white image and you're pretty much set.

i was wondering about your line quality on your submission design. what program (i'm assuming illustrator) and tools did you use for line work?

watch where you sit was my first illustration so i will be trying different things, but for this one i followed pretty closely the steps above. once i had the general layout sketched out, i drew a somewhat detailed version to make sure the perspective was ok. at this point i try to draw one as large as i can that will fit in the scanner so i could put in as much detail as possible so it's close to the final drawing. once everything is detailed in pencil, i traced it with pigment liners instead of ink and a brush like the tutorial. pay close attention to the light source, and vary line weights a lot, of course thicker lines in the shadows and vice versa. use a very thin liner for the details. this is what i found to be the most important step, because once the inking is done, i erase all the pencil, and do a large black and white scan. and that's it for the line quality, it all comes down to the inking. this is why making the drawing as large as possible is important, because you put all the details in. i opened the scan in photoshop and put all the coloring beneath. at this point you could also open it in illustrator and live trace the lines and do coloring in there, but i did everything in photoshop for this one. another way is to take your pencil drawing, and instead of inking by hand, bring it into the computer and trace it manually in photoshop or illustrator. if you have any more specific questions let me know.

I'll have to check this out when I get home. Neato!

wow that's really helpful, thanks for the post



and happy birthday!

okay thanks man! that was helpful!

haha no not me...

thanks for the bday wishes

this is helpful.

its motivated me to buy the same equipment he uses. but when i'll use it i'll remember that i'd also need the skills to use the equipment effectively.

happy b-day. This has been really helpful.



I was wondering though, I personally use a faber castell brush pen and it works okay. Would a legit brush with ink work better though? I wonder.

happy birthday!

toopersent i imagine a faber castell brush would work just a nice. it's whatever you get used to and are most comfortable with. as long as you get solid black lines on white paper instead of mid tones like with a pencil it shouldn't matter. the bigger you draw the more fine tuned your drawing will be. ink and brush scares me personally because i could see myself dripping on my desk or knocking it over.

cool blog!