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draw-freak — draw-freak's guide to lineart
Published: 2007-08-31 03:47:43 +0000 UTC; Views: 12958; Favourites: 167; Downloads: 1
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I got a lot of requests for a tutorial, mainly on how I color eyes. But I decided to do the whole shabang! >w<this is 1 of 5 tutorials. click the "x" next to each tutorial to go to it. If there's no link connected to the "x", then I haven't completed that tutorial.
X draw-freak's guide to skin
Xdraw-freak's guide to clothes
Xdraw-freak's guide to hair
Xdraw-freak's guide to eyes
PLEASE DO NOT take or re-draw my picture of Kiara mopping or my OC, Kiara herself. Please only use this tutorial for your own sketches.
I hope that you enjoyed my tutorial and I hope that it was useful to you in some way.
all artwork+Kiara(c)~draw-freak
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Errr, something's wrong. Whenever I start using the pen tool, vectors "Shape 1 and so on" keep appearing. It won't lock on the line art layer....
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thanks a lot!, this will help me a lot with my drawings ^^
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i hope you dont mind,but where would you get a free versoin of this or other programs like this one?plz respond thx
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Photoshop isn't free, which is what is used. Though, GIMP is free, and works nicely like this, but is much simpler c: SAI is free as well (the trial) as is the trail of OpenCanvas
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Well I already knew all of that,I posted that comment a pretty long time ago.But thanks for responding anyway,that was really kind of you. ^^
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How can you make curves with the pen tool? I don't know how...
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as you click the point, you have to moveit. the movement will adjust the curve.
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I thank thee for this! I shall try it as soon as I get my hardware/software/computer in one place!
(I had wondered what was up with that pen thing! XD)
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Oh my gosh thank you billions! <3
I have been wanting to do digital art for ages and have no idea how. You just made my day
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What's it called in photoshop elements 5.0 plz help im dying
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I'm not sure. I don't own elements. Go to the "help" and type "pen tool" and see if anything comes up.
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i just got brand new CS3, and i was trying to do some lineart, but i was trying to do the stroke path part, but it wouldnt let me click on stroke path, its like grey and unclikable -.- do you know whats wrong?
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hmm.. i would make sure that you have the pen tool selected then right-click. also, the lines have to be unselected. "how do you know if they are unselected? You won't see any points or arrows." You don't have to click right on the line, anywhere on the canvas is fine. I hope this helps.
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i tried what you said but it didnt make a difference. i made a screenshot of my problem:
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My stupid photoshop doesn't have the pen tool for some reason, or I just can't find it. D|
Good tutorial though~
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aww that's too bad. 
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when i start i for some reason have the sketch as my background how do i fox that >.<
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This was very helpful.
Just a question though... I used the pen tool and got half of my picture done, then saved it and exited. When I opened it up later, my pen marks were gone. o.o What happened? Can I get them back or do I have to do them all over again?
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I'm glad my tutorial helps~ ^__^
Answer:
when lines are in the process of being made with the pen tool, what you see on your screen are only the paths (or as I said, "empty canals") for the lines ("water"). You won't officially create lines with the pen tool until you right click> stroke path> brush, and replace the stoke path with real lines.
i'm not sure if I make sense.
but the flat out answer to your question is "no". Unfortunatley, there is no way to retreve your line paths back, even if you saved. I made the same mistake. no worries. you'll have to redraw the lines and make sure you use "stroke pah" to create the actual lines before you save and exit. ^__^
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Ah, okay. It makes complete sense. ^^ Thanks so much!
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hehe no problem~! i'm glad i could help. ;D
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Thanks for making this tutorial. It's really simple and clever! I mean that in a good way. Some other tutorials I've read use too much detail and just confuse the hell out of me. I forgot the joys of the pen tool so I'm going to give your way a try. Thank you!
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Why thank you very much~! I really appreciate your support and am very glad you could get use out of this tutorial. I know what you mean, I've looked around at tutorials just to see how other people create their lines, but they are either too complicated, or don't explain the tool/steps. so often times, people will follow specific steps but not really realise exactly what they're doing. I'm pleased that mine is more understandable. thanks again~
and you are very welcome.
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I've always wondered how people did this.
Thank you sooo much!!! ^_____^
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you're welcome! I'm very happy I could help through this tutorial. ^__^
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Nice work but I fear the pen too
gah my marsh mellow brain meep
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>w< i know how you feal. I like.. didn't use the pen tool until I didn't have my drawing tablet for a few days and was forced to use it. Now I love it~ 
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Well I'll have a go with your methford
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sdrhfsjkgsd that's so helpful : D
Imma use this over and over again!
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ohmygosh!! I'm so happy~!! ^w^ I'm glad it is useful to you~
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yay! just what I wanted to hear~ >w< I'm glad it helps~
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omg. This is totally gonna help me.
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but I dun think I have a pen tool on Photoshop Elements 3.0
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REALLY!? wow. like.. all softwares have some sort of pen tool. it might not be called the same thing. like in paint, it's called the curve tool. but that one is harder to use. xP
well, hopefully you have a pen tool or something and you just missed it.. >w<
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Yus, hopefully, I'll have just missed it
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I think you did great on this
I just use my Tablet and open canvas for my line art xD;;
the pen tool hates me T_T
that or I hate the pen tool... OR both!
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>w< thank you~ I know. the pen tool can be a pain! Dx
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*hisses at pen tool*
you're welcome ^^
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Yeah
But, how have you 3 layers instead of 1 ? I Bought Photoshop Cs 3 , it can be a little different :S
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