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Edit: Part II (digital inking) now available!: [link]Also, eyes tutorial: [link]
Starring Cloud from Advent Children!
(see... told you I was in a bizarre ffvii mood)Yes, I know that sometimes sketches are Never So Clean as they are in this case... I'll talk about digital inking sometime in the near future in another tutorial. But this is for those who sketch cleanly or who go back and clean up their pencil sketch by erasing and redrawing the lines.
Feedback appreciated! (was it clear? more/less detail? What other stuff would you like to see?)
Other tutorials which may or may not be of interest:
Skin and eyes in photoshop [link]
Clothing and lace [link]
Hair in Photoshop [link]
Hair in Painter [link]
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teh purdyness, thank you for such a contribution.
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wonderful tutorial!
im definitely gonna use this
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cool ^_^
thanks i will try to see if I can use photoshop right
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I tried your tutorial and i must say it is the best working way of colorizing i have used so far! I consider you a genious and i gived you 5 Woots 6 Huggles and a cookie!
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whee! ^____^ Thanks for the woots, huggles, and cookies!
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it seems pretty clear and simple......i hope to try this during my spring break....thanks!
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Ah, very good! I'll try that the next time I get the chance. Line art is the hardest thing to get correct.
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My question is how do you deal with large picture sketches where it takes like 2 scans to fit in the whole picture and the paper is two separate colors, not to mention that the artwork is a lot more sketchier than yours.
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Hmm.., i've never tried that before. But you can bright-ness contrast to get the paper to white and use the rotation/resize tools to make it all fit.. ^_^
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I'll be reading this again sometime.
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Pretty good.
For me, I use "Level" option in photoshop to have a clean line, and then I put a little blur.
But your technic work well to.
In the end, I think one of the best way to have a clean line is to use illustrator, but it's a quite long.
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yeah, the best way is probably to re-ink digitally.
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Great tutorial if you ask me. I've had no problem understanding what you were putting accross.
Keep up the good job.
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This is great, you have no idea how much I needed this.
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Nice of you to share this with us! I was a little bit confused though... since 'cleaning sketch lines' was your goal but there were hardly any lines in the drawing you started out with! I'd wished to see more intensive cleaning.
Changing the sketch lines into another colour and 'fuzz' them was a great idea btw--that'll help me a lot in the future, thanX. ^^ I've seen some tutorials on DA and yours is definately the easiest to follow. Screenshots were easy to comprehend, sometimes you'd think that some tutorials were for advanced users, y'know? Anyhow, enough blabbing--keep up the good work!
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thanks for your feedback! yeah, this is definitely one of my "cleaner" sketches. I hope to put some more tutorials up soon about what to do if your sketch is much much much messier to begin with, so stay tuned! ^^
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Wow, great that you find the time to reply to all those comments. o_O Sure, I'll be waiting for the other tutorials.
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well, i try to respond to as many as I can. ^_^ Thanks for leaving them! ^^
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very useful, i'll give a try ^__^ (the gaussian blur effect looks kinda delicious ΒΊwΒΊ)
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This is VERY helpful and useful! Favorite for you!!
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I just wanted to say that this tutorial has helped me SO much. Your explanation was so good that I was able to modify it for Corel Painter IX! I see that you want advanced critique and I'm sorry that I'm not able to give that, but I did want to thank you. It will take a LONG time for me to understand programs like Photoshop as well as you do, but thanks to this tutorial, I've got a starting point.
Also, this drawing is really adorable. Cloud has never looked so...cuddly. It's a solid drawing with good lines that keep it interesting and the coloring and shading really add to it without taking away from the cuteness.
Thanx!
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Thanks so much for your feedback! I'm so glad it was able to help you even without using Photoshop!
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thought this was about cleaning up the lines... hmmm.. i am quite confused..this did not really help me
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HOLY SCHMOLEY! Exactly what i needed! 
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good tuturial. Keep up the good job.
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omg, thank you~~ This is PERFECT~ My friend has Photoshop but didn't know how to do the lineart and that type of stuff. I am so going to recommend this to her.
Gah, I wish I had Photoshop though. *has Paintshop Pro* It is really good though...it's just I have a hard time finding tutorials for it when trying to find stuff about lineart. ~_~; Oh well, I can at least try to use these instructions and get a similar effect...hopefully. 
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thanks for the feedback!
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that colud be useful, thanks for sharing
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a simple but very helpful tutorial, thanks
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oh thank you sooooooo much
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Oh my god! Thank you! Thank you so much for this lovely tutorial! It helped me a lot!! <3
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I thank you so much x3 this will really help me out when I want to go lineish~! i usually just put color over my lines and it takes foreeeeverrrr~ but sometimes I just want lines, but I can never get ti right, so I just end up doing the same thing[coloring the over the lines]
so thank you oh so much *bows* I love advent children/FFVII stuffs 
love, landers
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i'm so glad you found it helpful! ^___^ Thanks for all your kind comments!
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I read that even though I don't have photoshop and I have my own line system. It was just so interesting
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Its nice, but what will happen i've you got a messy sketch ^^
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re-inking, or erasing/smudging. I'll have a tutorial on that coming up soon, so stay tuned! ^^
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Wow. THis is very useful. I mean, damn! This is kick-ass useful. I wish I could use, this, but I only have Paint.NET. I could still try and use some of the things in here. ^^ Thanks.
PS: Maybe you can make a tutorial if Paint.NET. That would help ALOT.
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thanks for the feedback! i've never used paint.net, but will keep it in mind! ^^
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That is a really nice tutorial, really it is. I love the softness of the picture in the end, and how he lines are still nice and clean. Excellent tutorial overall. :3
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thank yu very much this helps a lot.
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cool cloud !!!! (clad in france).
And cool tutorial , thanks
Peace .
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