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LunarMaddness β Lineart Tutorial
Published: 2007-02-23 01:28:06 +0000 UTC; Views: 49550; Favourites: 437; Downloads: 582
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this is a large file and may take a while to load.it tells how to
1. Scan lineart and get it ready to color
2. Draw lineart with a tablet
3. Draw lineart if you dont have a tablet
The first of the "how to use photoshop" tutorials that were requested by my neopets guild These are 3 ways to do lineart and so anyone who has photoshop should be able to do at least one of them. I didnt put much on drawing with a tablet because it mainly requires practice.
there is a lot on there so hopefully i didnt forget anything or leave out a something important. Please let me know if something doesnt work/doesnt make sense! and Please excuse any grammer mistakes/typos i am a horrible proof reader.
Photoshop version used - CS2
The next tutorial will have "usefull Photoshop tricks"
Hope that you find this helpful!
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Comments: 131
This is so cute, I love the examples and chibis -- they make it easy to understand and fun to read! Great work and thanks for posting, I hope to use this in the near future.
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tobi. ftw.
tobi is better than all of us people. we should learn from him xD
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I know i can drae better than tobi, Thanks for the tuturial
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kyaa thanks for tuturial (you really help me ToT) ^w^
P.D: tobi itΒ΄s so cute >w<
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WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
I'm doing the one where you scan and then use the contrast technique you showed here and got it too but then I don't know what or where the paint buckets tool is!!! Please please please explain what it looks like and where it is!!! Thank you sooo much!!!
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thanks so much 
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aww, this is the cutest lineart tut i've seen!
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I can't find number 6!!! Help! *Enters panic mode*
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Oh wow, this does make it easier to clean stuff up!
Thanks~
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Excellent tutorial, now I know how to get rid of some of those lines in my lines art.
I favorated it, thanks.
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This was a huuuuuuge help. Very useful! I owe you my life!
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im confused, when i delete the scan layer all it does is get that checkered background, so do i just make a new layer?
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OOOHHH. I feel SO stupid.
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I knew how to use the pen tool , but that thing with the RGB layers is a life-saver ! You are the best !
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Thank yoooooou! XD I just got photoshop CS3 and I'm completely confused. This helped me a lot. ((I've already played with the tools!)) I thank you! ^^
uh. . . can I hug you? XD
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that looks like my notes for school....
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you can get it for a few hundred if you get it through a student discounted site like academicsuperstore.com otherwise it is somewhere around a thousand
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I'm going to try this out, and maybe Photoshop will be my friend... I will tell you if I have succeeded. This is one of the better and simpler tutorials I have seen (yay simple!). *faves*
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Is the doing-by-hand part supposed to take a lot of time to do? 
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It does take a while to draw something using the pen tool. hmmm you use the points to bend the lines. You should have two curve adjuster bars on each point. If you dont then use the convert point tool to change it to a curve. It takes a while to get used to using the pen tool but it can do some nice things once you get used to it. Yeah it is easier with a tablet
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hehe thank you ^^ That will help lots... I probably wont be getting a tablet anytime soon because I just got a $200 scanner from my dad lol. Plus haven't edited any of my pictures I have drawn yet.. Just learning to do line art and coloring ... though I need to pick up the pace in learning with a contest ending soon and I need to enter =x Again, thank you soooo much hehe <3 ~RIO
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good luck with that!
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omg! yaay! im probobly going to get photoshop soon so this is perfect!!
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i havent ever used it so i dont know
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This is so cute! Tobi is so friggin' cute in this tutorial. I will do better lineart now~
*pats Tobi* Tobi is a GOOD boy!
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that's a big help 4 me!! now how to follow directions proplerly is all i need then i'm ready to go!!!
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wwaaahhh that's my favourite,, well! you are good work! well, bue i'm so bad hahaha, i can't paint in photoshop .,.., i think that's most dificult ummsss bye
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I've Been Looking For Something Like This! Thanks For Making It!
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Well, this tutorial has helped me find out what is wrong with my drawings. xD
I do my lineart too light. Hm. It comes up as light blurrs, and I was annoyed, but now I just need to pen in either slower or darker. Poor pens.
This tutorial was AMAZINGLY helpful. I haven't been posting things because I can't color under my scans. xD Hugs for j00!
~Yexis
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it might not be your lineart benig to light because i drew that in pencil so it is pretty light, lighter then anything done in ink. What may be your problem if it is scanning in really light is the scanner program. Often they have an auto fix thing that ends up getting rid of lighter lines. You can use the "import" option from the file menue in photoshop to scan directly to phptoshop and avoid any scanner software "fixes" and then use the steps i have in the tutorial to fix the scan there. Or you can turn off your scan softwares auto fix if you can figure out how
glad it was helpful!!! yay for being able to post art again!
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Ah, well, you see, I already import directly into Photoshop. O-o And the fixes are non-existant. I just use a .01 mm pen to ink in my drawings, so I'm pretty sure it's my light inking. A .01 mm pen quickly whisked across a page does not make a dark line in any shape or form, so it's always my hair lines, blush, and wrinkles that are too light.
OOO: I'm really lazy, though. I still haven't posted. I'm too busy RPGing. >->;;;
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amazingly helpfull 
I might even start posting some stuff because of you
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cool! im glad you found it helpful!
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will you be making more tutorials?
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