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FULL VIEW FOR TUTORIALUpdate: 15th June 2010
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Take note before beginning the tutorial:
1. You must have a tablet. Wacom is a popular and reliable brand for the most part. For beginners, I'd suggest a Bamboo Fun model.
2. For photoshop, only version 7.0 and up has wacom support. For other software, please check [link] to see if yours has the right support.
3. Also, please ensure you have your tablet drivers are installed. If yours is a wacom model you can download them from the wacom homepage at [link]
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I've received quite a number of question regarding my work, one of them being "How DO you do your lineart?" Hopefully, this tutorial will answer that question.
This is a BEGINNER LEVEL TUTORIAL that was done in Photoshop CS, but should work for any version with tablet capabilities. Even if you dont use photoshop, the fundamentals are the same.
Please tell me if it helps, and if I should do a colour tutorial. (I am considering it, but its ALOT of work.)
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Thanks a lot, without this I would never check those settings in ps... you can`t imagine how munch hard time i had Β before i found this tuto
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I just started using a tablet and I'm having a strange issue! My lines aren't tapering off to a point like they should. If you look at this sketch I did recently(fav.me/d9y7ma0 ), it's really obvious in the hair strokes. The ends look like nibs. I don't get what I'm doing wrong. Someone please help. ;.;
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Thank you very much, this helped me a lot
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I have a problem. I'm on Step 3 and I don't see other dynamics in my Photoshop. Β
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Interesting tip working at a high res then downsizing for cleaner line art, thanks!
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Would a laptop tablet screen work as well as a Wacom tablet?
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woww.. thnx...itΒ really helped... I just bought my bamboo one
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You see, I'd love to do stuff like this, I just don't have the patience. Thanks for the tutorial anyway
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I have to thank you for this great tutorial! I finished my first good piece of tablet work now!
--> angelneko88.deviantart.com/art...
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Thanks for the tutorial C: finally I can do the lines with the proper accuracy.
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BTW. what's the best tablet Brand will I buy? ??????
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I highly recommend Wacom brand tablets. They have tablets for all budgets, and are generally very reliable and well supported. : )
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Nice tutorial!
I have made a lineart-everyone is free to colour it-[link]
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In step 3 I made all the thing you said...but my brush preview doesn't look like the one here :c someone can help me?
sry for my english xD
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Really helpful, thanks !
But I tried to do lines with different pressures (to do different opacities), but it doesn't work (Step 3)... Maybe because I don't have practise ? I don't have a Wacom tablet but I have Photoshop CS6.
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Please can I have permission to post this tutorial at The DreamEvil Network.Com ? with your name and a link
back to your DA profile? its a fab tut
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How did you manage to make or pull out the brush figure at (C.) (I'm currently typing and not on drawing mode(using tablet), did you do it or does photoshop have it (preview mode)?
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Your messy line explanation gave me hope!
I always wondered how people could do such smooth lines on PS.
Thanks for the tut!!
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Hi, i want to know which size is appropiate to draw in photoshop if i want a good quality-seeing of my work.
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At least 2000 pixels height or width
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Just used this tutorial for drawing the first time with a tablet in PS - worked very well, thank you! .3
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Before I got my tablet, I just used the point-and-click pen tool method for lineart. Then I got my tablet...and realized I didn't know what to do! I ended up still using the pen tool because i was at a loss!
I'm so happy you posted this, it makes so much sense! I can't wait to put it into practice! Hopefully lineart will finally stop being such a hassle for me now!
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Im following ur tutorial but i cant get my lines to be non squiggly and smooth like yours @-@
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it takes practice to get a smooth line
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My father bought me the cheapest Bamboo tablet, without photoshop but it's the same tablet. Im getting it on my birthday. I can't wait! 
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how to do that smooth line art? i can't do it right. orz
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heh...I think its when you open a new image there is the option for the number of pixels per inch (PPI) I think that is the same
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will it work with an ADESSO in Adobe Photoshop version 7.0.1???
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how do you make your lineart high resolution?
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If you work with a larger canvas, the amount of DPI/PPI goes up. If you think about it, most larger images you see are a higher quality than a re-sized smaller one, right?
There's also the idea of making the lines sharper, so you can try out a different combination of things that work for you~
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Thank you so much. I'm hoping to get my tablet in a few days. And I really wanna make sure I know what I'm doing. Cause I have been trying to draw with my mouse for years and it's finally getting to me. XD
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This is really helpful for me! Thanks so much!
And I would love to see a coloring tutorial by you <3
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I'm using a G-Pen f509 tablet. It also has pressure sensitivity as its feature, but I can't use the pressure in Photoshop CS5. How come? I tried to search but I just didn't get the answer I want.
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Have you figured it out yet?
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haha... yup. It was just a random problem. Every time PS doesn't sense it, I just restart the PC then it starts sensing the pressure.
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Ah. I was going to suggest downloading the leastest driver for your tablet if you hadn't already. I was having the same problem and that fixed it.
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thanks for the suggestion!
btw..
what's the leastest driver?
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