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KillahBlade1 β Felicia sketch by Cheggles
Published: 2018-11-12 23:36:02 +0000 UTC; Views: 2052; Favourites: 20; Downloads: 1
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Wow! So this was a nice surprise! My buddy who is into drawing cutesy fem fights drew this little sketch. I liked it so much that I had to add the colors and lines. I hope i didn't butcher it too much. X3Original sketch by And if you haven't.... Go check his page out!
Lines, Flats and terrible shading by me!
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Hey, thanks for the plug and - neat! Always changes a sketch's impression when it's solidified with lineart and color.
So tell me a little about the tools and processes you use?
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CPS, Really. (Clip paint studios.) and a Wacom intuos... The lil cheap one. lol
I do a few layers to solidify the line art just so I can concentrate on where the lines are thicker. Usually using different G-pen brushes with different sizes for it. Do a layer below it for flats.
Once I have the flats, I duplicate the flat layer and turn it into a multiply layer and erase some of it away for various shading... probably gotta practice that a bit.
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I see, I see. Do you have access to a flatbed scanner? I think you could concentrate on lineart better by doing it on paper, then scanning it for digital color. If you worked in Photoshop I could even give you some technical pointers on how to prep a scan for that.
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Yeah man! I do indeed.
Sometimes I try to do traditional lines. I have a brush tip that I would love to know how to use better.
I just have the fact if I sneeze or twitch, the whole drawing can be irreparably ruined... Eh, I guess you can always touch it up digitally.
I hear from a bunch of people they like CPS for digital drawing. It's certainly better than the free ones like Krita or gimp.
Anyway, I'd love advice! It's one of the reasons I enjoy DA so much. Scanning and resolution is something that tends to go over my head.
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The earliest pics on my page were done in pencil because I kept my own Cintiq at work then. Luckily, that has changed so I work all digital now. My standard work resolution is 600dpi which I later reduce for screen view. Of course, working at such high res requires a certain amount of system memory. Anyway, I can see you work at a low res because of the pixelated edges in your line art. Your tablet has its own resolution for movement recognition as well and it looks like it's not that high tbh. That's why rather than spending big bucks on hardware, try refining your linework with cheaper, real life tools first. You can achieve proper, not too fuzzy black lines with pencil if you draw carefully, scan at high resolutions and clean the scan up properly.
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Ooooh. You this the cheapo tablet and mismatched resolution is to blame for shoddy lines? I'll give this a try! I sometimes thought that the tradional lines look better when I actually got it right.
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It's possible, I don't know your exact specs but the serrated edges of the lines in your inked sketch suggest that some things are pretty low res at one point during the process. You can enhance most Wacom products' resolution through their driver software, though.
The clean line of this pic here was drawn with an ordinary HB or B pencil on a plain old sketch block, and right over my rough scribbles, too:
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I scanned it all, filtered out the rough lines (which were in blue pencil) so only the clean pencil lines remained, and then I sharpened those by enhancing contrast and using noise reduction tools until I was left with a crisp black line at a high res before applying color. Actual ink would work, too, of course, and in that case you could even erase any scribbles done in pencil bc the dried ink wouldn't be affected by a pencil eraser.
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I also turn anti-aliasing off because it makes the lines slight greys bleed into my colors., Which I didn't like.
But that's interesting to use the contrast and noise reduction to eliminate needing to do line work. I never really played with my scanner settings as long as it worked and went into the computer, I was happy with it.
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I don't use the scanner software's color settings, always my graphics program's ones.
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Intereeeesssttttiinnng.
See, there is where the resolution confusion comes into play with me. Scanning to a certain DPI will change the resolution in the computer.. but since you can zoom in and out digitally without really effecting the file, I always have trouble seeing the effects it's having.
That or I just don't realize what I'm doing. Lol. I probably need to get a book on this kinda thing.
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You think that the cheapo*...
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