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Published: 2006-03-13 22:11:39 +0000 UTC; Views: 189334; Favourites: 5345; Downloads: 42438
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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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I use the pen tool! ^^ Not as good as your example, lol but im ok.
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I thought I was the only one who used Flash to ink. ^^' I love the smooth lines and vectors.
Nice tutorial.
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Thanx fo posting this tutorial!Helped me a lot!
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thx thx thx thx thx!! my pictures were allways a mess...
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one question: is this photoshop 7? this is a GREAT tutorial! very detailed but easy to understand.
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thanks a lot for making this... thanks to you and your inkpen info I got to be able to make my first Photshop work, it's only lineart and not too good since hte scanwas somewhat messy but if your interested take a look ^^
: [link]
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Mahalo!! Thank you!! This is very useful!! Very nice of you...
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Thank you for making this tutorial! It will help me alot.
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I absolutely love your tutorials! They are very helpful and easy to follow. Thanks so much for taking the time to make these!
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Hey, thanks a lot for making this great tutorial. I do have some questions though. When I draw a path with the pen tool, and then right click on it, I don't get the option "stroke subpath". I do get the option "stroke path", but it's in grey, and I can't click on it. Before, I thought that you could only do that in CS 2, and I had CS. But now I do have CS 2, and I still can't do it. Am I doing something wrong?
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woo, I've been inking with a tablet and brush all this time, and NEVER understood the damn pen tool. You totally helped me! it seems so easy now! thanks!
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o gawd, same here. 'cept i dont have a tablet. so until i read this i was screwed ^^
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...YOU ARE AWESOME! Thank you! I finally digital inked my first art. It's amazing. THANKS!
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Wow, thank you! This was a splendid help~ I'm really new to using a tablet, so this was wonderful.
Many thanks!
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very nice and simple. best one yet! is it possible to directly create lineart from a scan? *is very lazy*
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This is really helpful! There are a lot of tutorials out there about the Pen tool, but this is definitely the clearest one I've found. I can't wait to try it later. Thanks for this!
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Okay, question. When I want to draw with the pen tool in photoshop, first of all, I get a filling color. How do I remove that? Second, when I rightclick on the path, I only get two options: shape 1 and background. How do I get to the stroke subpath option?
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thanks for the awsome tut. but i don't have photoshop....do you know of anyother programs i could do this in?
or where i could get photoshop? do i have to buy it, cuz it's pretty expensive.
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This was very informative and helpful, thank you very much.
The progam you used was Photoshop, right? Do you have any other softwares that work well for coloring/sading, etc??
You are really good at making these, I've read each of the tutorials you made and when I get a tablet and software I'll definately use them ^-^
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Thank you for this! 
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This really helped me out, Thank you so much for making it :]
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Your tut's are going to help me so much! I have just received a tablet and I'm looking for PhotoShop (or something in that direction) so I think this will be a wonderful help
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when i do inking with the pen tool, i right click, and the dialog wont's come up
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and it fills the space with blackness o.o
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Holy crap, you have no idea how helpful you've been!!!
Thankyou so much!
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FLASH? who knew... But definitely something I will have to screw around with, an unsteady hand is the bane of my existance.
Great tut.
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Yaaaaaaaay! Thanks a lot ^O^!!!!!! I learnt a lot of new thinks 
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I was hoping I could ask your help on some troubleshooting? I opened up Photoshop and this tutorial both to try and digital ink something with the pen tool. I clicked and made the two anchor dots, curve it if its not a straight line, but when I right click on the line, the "stroke subpath" option is grayed out and I can't click it. Am I missing a step?
Sorry, but you're the only one I know if so far that can use the pen tool!
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dangit! i have the same problem D:<<< so r a couple other ppl on here gah.
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Hello there, great tutorial. Inspired me much to try to learn about tracing.
Question: what version of Photoshop do you use? The version I'm using gives me a color background "around" the traced lines. Its really weird and I don't know how to configure it not to do so : T
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its very prettty and wayyy helpful!!!!! do u mind telling me or showing how u color the hair, is it the same as the eyes?
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The pen tool tutorial was so helpful, you have no idea how frustrated I was getting.
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Lovely tutorial! I like how you've included many different ways to ink!
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Very well thought out tutorial! woot! Deffinatly going to try this asap!
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Thank you for making this! I especially liked the pen part. I always disliked drawing with the pen, because the pressure looks the same everywhere. But now I see you can do it differently, and the result is gorgeous! I'm so gonna try that!
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I have a question...I am newer to photoshop and I was wonder if you can tell me about the layering and how you got it the way you needed it?
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I just wanted to thank you sooo sooo much for making this tutorial, I can't even tell you how much it has helped me. Just one thing, the commands are different on a mac, so maybe put in that warning, since I had to experiment a little to figure out which buttons did what
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Heeellpp...
Forgive my noobishness, but when I right-click my pen tool lines, I am not allowed to select 'stroke path'...
help... *pitiful*
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Thank you soooo much for all of your tutorials. They helped me out a lot. But what makes me mad is that I have photoshop5.0 and i cant find the original version. No one has tutorials for 5.0 and its a little different than the original. But urs were a lot more helpfull than most other tutorials!
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YES! NOW I CAN ACTUALLY USE THE PEN TOOL WITHOUT TEARING ALL THE HAIR OUT OF MY HEAD! (as you can tell this helped me a lot! thanks!)
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Perfect! Thanks a lot, this is just what I was looking for ^.^. But, I have one problem. I used your paths method, and I did get the boring normal lines, the ones that don't get thinner around the ends. Yes, I did check the box that said "Simulate Pressure." I was thinking it was probably because you had different brush presets. Also mine weren't thick. My lines were semi-soft, just not completely hard. It doesn't matter though, it fit with what I was doing.
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i liked the tip about wobbly lines. that's exactly the problem i'm having right now (i'm a new tablet user). i'm going to try this. thanks!
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