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Edit: Eyes tutorial, featuring this same character, is up: [link]A sister tutorial to the last Cleaning up Lines Tutorial [link] I really appreciated the feedback that I got, so thank all of you, and I'm glad it was helpful to some.
A lot of people mentioned that it's hard for them to sketch cleanly, so the last tutorial didn't really apply. I have the same problem, and it takes a looooot of extra work on paper (erase, erase, draw, erase) to get pencil lines clean enough to start coloring off of. So.... that's why I often turn to Digital Inking!
Here are some of the ways that I do Digital Inking. I know the "trace directly over the original image" is probably the most common method, but it's hard to do without a tablet and also hard for people with unsteady hands, so that's why I talked a bit about other methods.
As usual, comments/feedback appreciated so I can incorporate them into future projects. Thanks and
to all of you!
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this was kinda helpful but i make it kinda diferent...
did u unlock the background layer? cus when i unlock it and make a new one which i call the sketch layer. when i'm about to clean it with brightness and contrats it says: "could not complete brightness/contrasts command because the active layer is empty" i don't get it! this is confusing!!
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nice
a truly life saver i didnt know that the pen do that!!!
lol i still a newbie in photoshop
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YOU ARE A WONDERFUL PERSON FOR MAKING THIS! I have had photoshop for about two mouths now and I have been trying to figure out that dang pen tool. you tutorial has helped me out so much! My friend and I are start an online comic and I am drawing the covers but I wasn't going to start until I could make those flawless lines and thank to you we can start it now!
I LOVE YOU!
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Wait since you use Photoshop, what kind of brush do you use for Lineart?
Like, square, basic, ?
Also, what version of Photoshop do you have?
:3
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Sorry for this dumb sounding question (to me at least) but does Photoshop Elements 6.0 not have the Pen Tool? That seems like it would be the easiest method for me (my hand shakes whenever I try to do lineart and it looks really crappy) and I was wondering if you might know. Or if you knew of a tool that might replicate the effects of the Pen Tool.
-Thanks
FN
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Sorry for intruding, but the earliest version of Photoshop that I've seen with the pen tool would be Photoshop 7. I don't personally know of a tool with the same effects as the pen tool in Photoshop (I have an early version myself). But you can download Gimp for free and it has a tool called the '
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Well see the thing is, I'm not in just regular Photoshop. I don't know if there's a difference or not, but I use Photoshop Elements 6.0 with my blue wacom tablet.
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Oh, I've been on that before. I didn't see a pentool on there either. If it's on there it would be with the same icon as the one you see in the tutorial.
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oh my gosh thank you! I'm getting photoshop for christmas and this will help SO MUCH, you have no idea! Thank you for a simple yet SO HELPFUL tutorial!
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Hey i need your help...cause it is my first time.I am using flash so i want to tell me how i will save it...I saved it as .fla and when i am trying to open it in photoshop it say:it is not the right kind of document...
what i can do?(sorry for my bad English)
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When right-clicking on the pentool path, would you happen to know whta the little drop menue says for PhotoShop CS3 Extended for Mac OSX? Mine has different things listed x.x
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I think i figured it out: I had the wrong setting button pushed in and i changed my brush thickness to 5... from 230... wow... simple mistake took me a while to figure out XD. thanks for the Tut!
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Which version of Photoshop did you use for this..? I only have 6.0 which I'm guessing is fairly old.
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Does it matter what type of program it is?
Because I don't have photoshop =/
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Wow, your tutorial is great! 
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*bows* I rarely ever comment but I just had to commend you on the best inking tutorial I have ever seen THANK YOU!!!
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hey thanx for the helpful hints. i normally make picture at a large scale, do 1pt lineart in pencil, and then when im done colouring, get rid of the lines completely and scale down to a reasonable size. but thanx so much.
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adsdgdsfshkgd....
OHMYGOODGOD! I've been looking for a tutorial like this for YEARS! Thank you so so so much!
*scurries off to use* XD
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I used your tutorail to ink this [link] 
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o.o I have been hunting for a good pen/lineart tutorial .... since I started digital art. So going on a year now. And NONE have explained the pen tool, usually just mentioning it. Thank you so much! I am really looking forward to trying out these tools.
I think I might also hunt for your colour tutorial. ^^
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Thanks so much for the tutorial, it's really helpful for non-tablet-havers like me.
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SIMULATE PRESSURE!!!!
so that's the part I needed to know to make my artline look better
thanx
great tutorial
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What version of photoshop did you use?
I'm sure you've stated it somewhere, but I can not seem to find it...
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This tutorial taught me how to ink way back when and I'm so glad to have found it again! <3
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Woot! Im No Longer Afraid Of Lineart!
Tysm!
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Hey!!
I've been wondering how to draw those epic lines since foh-EVAH....
Ty so much for making this epic tutorial!!
Love ur gallery, btw
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omg ur toturial woudve been great hepl, exept, i dont know exactly what program ur using on 1 and 2. so its pretty difficult.
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Thank you so much for this! I'm faacinated at how clean I can make my scans with method two! I am currently working on a comic series, and I am so happy to use it on it. (Although it takes damn a lot of time ^__^
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa this is soooooooooooooooooooooooo cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i love it
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On my photoshop... I have to use Alt instead of Ctrl.... :/ I have CS3.
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hmmm... i dont know if its my photoshop version or something but i cant find the pen tool ;~; elements 5 and photoshop 7. (i change em on mah mood)but neither of them have pen.. or at least i cant find it D:
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Thank you so much ^^
The whole thing with inking with the pen tool confuses the crap out of me. I always wonder how people do such skinny lines ^^
Thankyou it helped me out alot ^^
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absolutely loved your tutorial!
I finally understood how to use paths and given I done have a tablet yet, it was increadilby useful!
Thanks a lot
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hey thanks ^^ but what ive been doing is making a series of thick lines and then zooming in too smoothen them
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Thank you so much! This is *the most* helpful digital inking tut I've seen. Thank you for being so descriptive and clear, and for the multiple options!!
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Umm, I have just two questions (I'm a noob for photoshop 
Why I can't select "Stroke Path" after drawing a curve in Photoshop? I did as you told, right-clicked on the path and tried to select "Stroke path", but it is grey, so I can't click on it.
And why are all curves' areas filled with colour?
Please help me.
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Wow, this will help me a lot, since I don't know completely nothing about photoshop!^^
It's great!
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The...the pen tool does that...? ...Seriously? ... I've been cursing at Photoshop for about 3 years now for not having such a logical option that would allow me to make unshaky lines like so many other programs have...and all this time it was there? As in right there in front of my nose?? *cries softly*
Thank you for sharing, I instantly opened up PS and went wild, it's like 3-year-old dream coming true at last!!
(...I also feel like a incredibly stupid fool for never having figured this out when it's so obvious, lmao!! Oh man, if I hadn't accidentally stumbled across this while looking for something else entirely, who knows how much more time would have passed before I learned this! It was right there! *facepalm*)
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