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Published: 2006-03-13 22:11:39 +0000 UTC; Views: 189341; 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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do you have firefly piture un colored so i can try out the tutorial?
great tutorial by the way!
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really good ^^
gonna try one of those real soon ^^
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I have photoshop but i don't see the pen tool...
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your photoshop needs to be over 7.0 (like the version)
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thank you! that s very useful
unfortunately, I don have the "simulate pressure" option T-T
how can I make a similar effect?
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Yay! I was just having trouble with this, and then I find this great tutorial. Thank you so much! I use Pixia instead of Photoshop (I could never even dream of affording Photoshop), but this was still really helpful! My lines look better now!
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hello, i was wondering, waht are the exact brush settings you used when you used the brush stroke setting in photoshop? i keep trying to duplicate your strokes, but mine are always fuzzy. (the opacity and hardness are set to 100% on my end)
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Uwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah. I didn't know that stimulating pressure would make it vary the line depth.
Thanks, I learned a lot. (:
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I preffere using the pen tool, it's a lot pratical, or even using Corel Draw, it gives + work, but it become just perfect!! \o/\o/\o/
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i really like your tutorial! it's very helpful! anyways i was looking at your pen tool digital inking part of it and i do understand it and i get thje curves but i cant get the little dialouge bubble to pop up even when my path is finished and im pretty sure im doing everything.... so what am i doing wrong
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OMG I LOVE YOU FOREVER. I have been trying to figure out how to use the pen tool for AGES without much success. But it ALL MAKES SENSE NOW! <3<3<3<3<3<3luffsluffsluffs!!!<3<3<3<3<3<3
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I NEED IT! awesomeee +fav, i like your tutorial! *-* thank youuu
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Thank you for making this tutorial!
Now I finally know how to ink 
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This tutorial is just amazing, I hardly knew anything about Photoshop and how people can ink so well until I read this and tried it out. Thanks a lot for sharing this with us ^_^ *Practises some more*
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WHAT a great tutorial
I never knew how to use the pen tool before
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i need some help.....k now i did everything in the tutorial and it worked out fine until it came to the part where it uses the brush to draw the part of where i selected k i chose the regaler brush and the size was 3 and i did it right but it wasn't anything close to how it looked when you did it it went from small to big to bigger to big to small real smooth and it looked good on mine it wasn't anything like that more like it was shaded the outside of the line it made was see threw and it didn't look right at all 
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Your tutorial is very clear, easy to use and definitely something that will help me since I'm beginning to experiment with digital coloring. Congratulations!
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Thank you so much for this tutorial, I'm brand new to colouring in Photoshop and the pen tool tip has helped me SO much.
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I tried the pen tool in photoshop (7.0) but it didn't work . Why ? I holded Ctrl and ...
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Do you know if Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 has the Pen Tool. I can never seem to find it, and I think it does.
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Do you know if Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 has the Pen Tool. I can never seem to find it, and I think it does.
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your drawing is soO cute!! ^^
and the tutorial is great!
i've been trying to find a tutorial like this for ever!
it's easy enough for a begginner like me to understand,
but it goes into details when needed!
i just love it!!
specially since i find it very hard to keep my lines
smooth, my lines are always really woobly,
much worse than yours, so i'll make sure
to try the pen!
so thanks again for such an awsome tut!
your drawings are beautiful by the way!
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Yes, genius tutorial. It's a great help.
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Best tutorial ever. You explainded the procedure very well. Photoshop tends to confuse me, but you made it clear. Thanks. ^ ^
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how do you do the pen in photoshop?
i did what you said but from the two points it just draws a straight line and filles it black!
It wont let me stop that happening.
do you know whats wrong? can you tell me the settings you have on it?
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When did the pen tool get introduced into Photoshop? because I have 3.0 (I know, I'm praying for a new version soon) and I dont think this version has it.
TT.TT I wish it did...
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I'm sure this will help, I'm terrible at inking. Also, I don't have a tablet (Hope to get one soon -_-), so this helps a lot in the sense that you can use the mouse.
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Ahh, I like this tutorial~!
I did the pen tool before but now whenever I make a path and move it * like a curve* it always makes a shape and fills it in! It makes me very mad and I don't know what's making it do that. I know I have the correct pen tool.
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cool!!
just out of curiosity though, is the pen option available on adoe photoshop 5.0?
i tried to look for it, but i couldn't find it ><
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I have a question, for the pen tool thingy, whatever I do the option 'stroke subpath' won't come up (it's grey and I can't click on it) Does anyone knows what to do when something like this occurs? I'm quite sure I'm using the same photoshop (Adobe photoshop CS) or could that be it? Please HELP!!
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This tutorial is great! Thanks so much for doing it - it must have taken a lot of work!
Do you think you could tell me what you use for an inking brush? I'm using the pen tool tutorial and my stokes come out really light on the ends - i don't think I have it set right :\
thanks again!
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