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This was actually a very interesting type of commission done forfor a tutorial from sketch to finished ink.
It was actually quite fun, and this is generally my progress when I go about doing this type of image right before I start the colouring stage!
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could you help me?
You said when you make a mistake you use white gouache
well, i have deleter white ink [link] and the thing is it always kinda piles up on the inked mistake and it looks really rigid and it isn't smooth and it makes the mistake even more obvious! (plus it's slighty translucent) and I've tried gouache too but I just can't get it to fix my mistakes!
How do you do it? I even tried looking for a tutorial but no luck...
help VERY much appreciated
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Hmm well most of my line art tends to get fixed up in photoshop (or any photo editing software) after so the more obvious mistakes I can fix digitally.
Otherwise I know what you mean, with the white paint (or gel paint sometimes) it's really thin and you can't really do it thickly or else it becomes hard to ink over or obvious.
I retake the part about acrylic, try some gesso (its really easy to ink over when dry. You could also try a white-out pen as well.
The really old school methods are, draw on thick bristol and you could actually scrape the ink off with an exacto.
Redraw the mistake part on another paper, and then glue it over your drawing.
does any of that help?
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wow, THANK YOU!
I'll pick up some of those products when I have time to go shop 
And yeeeees it did help!
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Yay! Good luck, let me know how they work!
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Thank you! I will
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thanks a lot for putting this on DA, it helps a lot with understanding the process, I've been trying to get into the rhythm of making my own, but it's been quit hard so far, and tutorials like yours really help out a lot
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Aww I'm really glad to hear that! Someone had asked me to make it way way back, I'm glad it came in handy!
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still figuring out my own process of going through sketching, but your tutorial is helping a lot, thanks again
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I have this long list of things I'm trying to improve about my art, and the first thing is inking traditionally. Thank you for this tutorial, I look forward to studying from it once I get pens that are thinner than 0.4. xDD
I have a question, though; After you fix it up in Photoshop, could you print and color it traditionally without it looking strange? Or would you have to color it digitally by then to make it look natural? Thanks again! γΎ(Β΄ο½₯Οο½₯ο½)
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Hmm you know I've never actually tried to paint over it traditionally, I was actually going to attempt that with watercolours soon. I think it would look fine really, though you'd have to print on the right sort of paper for your medium! And thick paints might just cover the lines too.
If I was going to paint it traditionally I think I would just not bring it into photoshop (though I'd make a scan in case I mess up XD).
Let me know how it turns out!
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canο»Ώ you make tutorial how to draw the difference between the male and female body and aslo draw the difference hair stlye like wavy, straight, and Curly in naruto stlye please?
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Unfortunatly as you can see by my art, I draw my own style, not Naruto style. Not to be mean but no.
(Also for male female bodies, live models are the best way to learn.)
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Well I learned something here today: Boob Crack! Seriously though, how in the hell do you draw the details in pen like that and not totally screw up? That would intimidate me big time, so I'd be stuck with pencils and then I'd have to take the extra steps with inking and erasing...it's a long process with too much room for error. I know you can't take shortcuts when it comes to art but I'll try anything to make the whole thing a little quicker.
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Honestly I'm suuuuper messy with pencil! And I draw really light, so for me this is the best way to get a clean lineart. Anyway with my OCD, I wouldn't have it any other way haha. Once you get used to it it's not too lengthy.
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I guess that's true. Now that I think about it my drawings look much better done in a way similar to yours, also.
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This was wonderfully accurate and helpful, very explanitory and such a lovely lineart on your part, you have real talent and grace with drawing
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Thankyou very much, I'm glad it helped!
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I didn't get the blur part, but this tutorial is awesome. Thank you.
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Another way to make clean lineart is to set your scanner to B&W - it only picks up the black and/or really dark parts, and any other unwanted bits of black can easily be erased.
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Yeah though I have a really shit scanner so the B+W option doesn't pick up details as well as making the image greyscale afterwards, it's too harsh.
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Thank you so much >/l\<
This tutorial teach me a lot~
Thank you so muchhhhhhhhh ><
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I know this is a bit late but thanks! If you ever need work again let me know
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Oh! Thankyou very very much! >w<
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I always used this technique to make a glow effect, but never thought you could use it like this... that's useful, I'm going to have to try it!! Thankyou Stef ;U;
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s you no longer separate the black and the white as two separate layers anymore?
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Oh I never did that D:! It sort of ruins the softness of the lines, so I only do it if I have to add colours to the lines, otherwise I always just put it as a multiply layer
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Actually there's an easy way to separate the black from the white without ruining the softness. (Assuming you have Photoshop, anyway)
Just read through the first three pages of this tutorial which explains how. :9
(sorry for butting into this convo ;-; I had to share, cause I find it's really useful)
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Hehe so I just tried that technique as well, and the only problem I see with it is you being unable to make several different lineart colours.
I usually make an empty layer on top, with a layer mask of my lineart selections , that way I can put any sort of different colours over the black.
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Actually, you can do that with this technique too.. if I'm understanding correctly..? Like, when you do the selection of the grays, you can make a new layer and set a mask.. uhm, I'm not sure if that makes sense..
Or you can do what I do, and that's using this method up to the select>load selection>background grey ... I make a new layer and use the paintbucket tool to fill the new layer, and it's just lines.. then you can click the "lock transparent pixels" icon and colour however you please over the line art.
I hope that makes sense. If not, let me know and I'll make a mini visual tutorial. I'm so bad at explaining XDD
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Aw yeah actually that's a good idea as well. It's funny how there's so many methods to do the same effect XD
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It's ok *___* that's super usefull!! Thanks so much
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Your ability to draw clean lines traditionally bemuses me!
This is wonderful, thanks for making it!
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I can't draw clean lines digitally ;;x;;
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Bah! You don't need to.
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well..Now I shall try doing that for my own sketches.
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