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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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Helpful tutorial, I'm going to fave it in case I get a tablet.
I'm thinking about buying a Wacom Bamboo A6 (I guess...) because I'm sick of inking on paper. And I need to practise digital art. .______.""
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If you want to start, i highly recommend to you to buy a Cheap/good quality Genius.
i started using a Wacom Bamboo as my first tablet and was traumating
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i'm using a genius now!
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Nice :3 how is it?
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Um, I want to start, yeah, but I love challengeing stuff.
But I guess you're right.
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Yeah, yeah believe me, Genius have a long listing on tablets: mouse pen,Pentablet, etc...And you can find them literally in any computation shop, comes with replacements of the tip, CDs with softwares like Adobe photoshop elements or Corel painters, that's why i recommend to you to buy one of them.
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that was really helpful! it was great of u to make a tutorial!!
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Great job! This was a very helpful for me because I'm a really messy liner!
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But I dont have Photoshop. T^T I have Gimp though.
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Same! Its really easy to follow in gimp aswell though.
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Omggg your tutorial was a freakin' life saver!!!! I swear I went briefly brain dead and just couldn't remember how to do lineart, but then your tutorial made it all clear again. 
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Yay ur tutorial is amazing
But i didn't found the "Brush preset" on cs5 TT___TT
Do you know were it's hiding xD ?
Thank you anyway
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wut is a tablet? srry im new and have no idea how to use this website
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this will help me alot when i get a tablet soon
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Glad you found it useful!
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oh, this will help me a lot with my future tablet, lol, i will get one on October 7th!! im so happy!^^
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When you say only photoshop 7 and up has wacom support, do you mean the pen pressure settings and such? cause i have ps 5 and use a wacom tablet on it.
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thank you for the tutorial
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Dx im using photoshop 7.0 but i cant get past part 2. my "layers" doesnt have "paths' or look like that
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My tablet is an Adesso. But this tutorial really helped. I've never set those things to pen pressure before, don't know why but it never crossed my mind. I had always wondered how people got their lines so.. smooth and flowy I guess.. now I know. Before this I thought it was just the brand of tablet that allowed the lines to look better xD
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Great tutorial. It's really helpful!
I have a question. i got my new tablet today, eager to start drawing in photoshop, and it won't go past a certain point in my program. Any Idea why?
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i have paint.net will a tablet work on that program
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Why would it not work on a tablet?
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Thank you very much, this was extremely helpful~ And I do sketch like that a lot. (to where it looks nearly finished) ^.=.^;
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What a great tutorial! One of the best ones about lineart I've found for someone without a pen tool. Too bad my lineart is always reall choppy and gross o.O
Love it though
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Thank you so much for this 'cuz I'm gettin' my first wacom tablet and I'll have photoshop. <3
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kfhdksjrd thank you so SO much, this tutorial helps out a lot! <3
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i'm glad i'm not the only one that draws sketchy lines ><
Not that it's a bad thing haha
C: thank you for this
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thanks that was really helpful!!! i always have such issues with lineart!
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wow very usefull tutorial but when you say "work on high resolution" changing the dpi of the images es not the same that resize the imagen 200% or 300% for example? what's the diference?
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Its how many dots per inch, websites are usually 72 dpi, its kinda saying how many pixels in an inch.
150 dpi equals a higher quality image because it is holding more pixels per square inch.
a 200 by 300 picture at 72dpi isnt as clear as a 200 by 300 at 150dpi but the 150 will be smaller image sine more pixels are going in per inch.
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I'm currently working on something and using your technique in this tutorial, and I have to say that you have substantially helped my lineart look cleaner and made it a hell of a lot easier to do. Thank so much for posting this.
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Thaaaanks, I just got my first tablet and just messing around with it until I came upon yoor tutorial which is SUCH A GREAT help
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OMG!
Thank you! This raelly helps ^_^
But my line art is like .. i dont kow.. itlooks pixely and choppy! D= D;
but whatever! this will surely fix it ! ^_^ thanks!
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this is super cute. haha i absolutely love her hairpins.
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what is the cheapest tablet i can get in america for drawing like this??
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Im not too familiar with brands outside Wacom. However, their Bamboo and Bamboo fun models are both adequate and affordable as an investment.
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