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Tutorial: Editing Drawings
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Published: 2008-02-28 15:32:08 +0000 UTC; Views: 255554; Favourites: 3294; Downloads: 0
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Yes, I made a new tutorial! This time it's about how scanners work and how I edit drawings in Photoshop.I know I said I wouldn't make any more tutorials, but I got soooooooooo many questions about this, and it's something I won't be putting in my artbook anyway, so I've been working on this all day long.
And now I'm tired...
Oh well, hope it's useful
Watch my other tutorials here!
Eye tutorial
Nose tutorial
Hair tutorial
Shading & Blending tutorial
Drawing Progress tutorial
Detailed Hair part 1
Detailed Hair part 2
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Comments: 431
wow this is great!
but i have one more question.. what is the best resolution to use for scanning? (for pencil sketches and such)
thanks
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my scanner suck everytime the image look so dark -_- i dont know how to fix it....
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haha whoops! i accidentally added this to my 'pictures for me' collection! sorry 8D
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thx so much! how to improve the drawings by computer is my biggest problem at the time :S
this really helps
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I have a dude,...
What pencils you use to make the skin,.. i mean 2h f hb,....
Exclent tuto,.. i trying now,..
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Nicolien, deze tutorial is GE-WEL-DIG! 
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Haha ben blij dat het bevalt 
nog een fijne week!!
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Thank you so much for this tutorial, I didn't know I could make my drawings look a lot better with editing.
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I all thouse fundies are being a bit rude by saying that you're cheating by editing your drawings in photoshop, because that isn't the case at all!!! I hate my scanner to bits because it fades reds and refuses to scan fluro colours, it also washes out any greylead pencil drawings I try to attempt. By editing you are restoring your pictures to their real life glory, and to say that repairing a washed out and genrally inferiour scan of a picture in photoshop is cheating would also be saying that the people who touch up the mona lisa after its hundreds of years of existance are vandals and cheaters too.
This tutorial is extremely helpful, and your work is amazing.
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editing drawings with photoshop kills the drawing , when you use dodge and burn and brush to fix the lighting you are making it better but you should fix that with your pencil
i think it's enough to use photoshop to clean the areas around the drawing
and even without cleaning it looks more natural
anyway it's just an opinion about the idea , but your drawing tutorials are great and very useful , and scarlett johansson looks very hot
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So you're actually saying that Nicolien and all other artists should take their pencil and start to draw on their computer-monitors?
I'm just saying.
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no , i'm saying that they should share the pictures as they scanned it , not edited .. and that's just a personal opinion i'm not ordering someone to do this
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This is very helpful. Off to my faves...
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Thanks a lot for that tutorial. I usually used Autocorrect, but levels are better as the curves!
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I was looking at your drawings, Oh my god, i wanna draw like you, someday I will *I hope*
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I have seen your drawings and you are a really good artist, but you should really mention that you photoshop your drawings. I went on believing that you were better than you actually are at drawing. I actually thought you shaded your drawings like that with just a pencil not changing the contrast in photoshop.
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The only thing being corrected are the effects of the scanner... Scanners aren't friendly machines...
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Thanks for that! I tried it out and it was really helpful
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just a quick question how do u actualy use the eye dropper tool to change the background?
thanks
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if the background needs to be white/blank, pick the white eye dropper tool (which is shown in the Levels window) and click on a white area. Easy like that
Good luck!
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oh know my dutch failed xD
i said you are amazing
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Thank you for so much this tutorial, it's really helpful!
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I had lost all hope for my 'Lexmark All-in-one printer' that I had to resort to my camera (which is not really bad 
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Very helpful, and it taught me a few things...thank you!
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seriously, all of your deviations looks like a black and white photos!
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Can this apply to watercolors too? Because I recently uploaded a watercolor I did and I HATE how the scanned image looks.
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Ahh! Needed this! Needed this SO much!
I can't believe I only just found this ><. I look at your gallery so much and managed to skip past this brilliant tutorial!
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So the end result of the photo shop darkening, is that what the contrast looks like on your drawing when your looking at it in person? Or do you make it darker on the computer compared to in person? Im just wondering! I love your art! Keep up the amazing job! Screw those people that keep trying to bring you down! They are just jealous of your amazing talent!
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I make the contrasts of the scans as strong as my original drawings 
Thank you
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I agree about the scanner part how they tend to mess everything up D: Can make me so mad sometime lol
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You're an angel. ThankyouThankyouThankyou!!!!!! I never thought of doing it like this, I'd sort of just given up.
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Omg. I never thought of this. And I always wondered how people got the eyes so perfect. Thank you
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Throughout all your tutorials I was saying:
"Ahhh...I see what you there..."
They were all really helpful.
Thank you so much and you are such a amazing artist, I hope to be just as good as you and even better someday.
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thank you so much for the positive feedback! 
I hope to get a new tutorial done in Summer
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hey thanks! i needed this alot! i think my drawings are good but no one notices them because i don't know how to scan them! thanks for all of your help
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