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how i level my Pencil lineshope this makes sense... haha
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you can do that, that is indeed one way to go about it.
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thanks man this is soooo helpful. i noticed that allot of your work looks like there is no lines at all, how do you get that effect ?
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if you're referring to digital work, then it's all about layer settings.
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i kinda thought so but every time i try it never blends well. maybe its the order i put my layers. could you tell me the order you use ??? it would be much appreciated.
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Above the flats, below highlights. But simply experiment.
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Thank you so mutch for uploading this 
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this helps out a lot!... but could i know one more thing?...when you color do you just go over the lines with color or do you go behind it? i use a mouse to do everything...but when i try something like this i cant color over lines right...so i made layers and try clearing out the whites using selective color and delete, and then color on a layer below it...but when i delete whites that way it makes the lines dissolve and it dosent look right....even after leveling it like this sort of...
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[link] check that file. it's PSD. download it and see what I do.
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by the way you can use pens and level them good like this too right?...using pens is the only way i get clean streaks like these...
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try it out
best to experiment on your own and find out.
results vary from one to another so I can't say.
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alright thanks...sorry for bothering you with so many questions all the time lol...its just i like to learn things like this...
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oh... i see now...thanks a bundle...now to go practice!
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Do you still use this method now a days instead of a tablet?
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when i draw traditionally (which i still do)
I do use this method.
or atleast a variation of it.
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Ummm... does the type of paper you draw on effect the scan? Like, does certain paper allow the lineart to show up better than other after being scanned?
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not sure really
all i've ever really used for nearly all that i've uploaded are basic printer paper, or the udon comic paper
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Ok, thanks for responding
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gahhhhh!!! grayscale, why did i not think of that!
DOH!
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Ehy! Thanks, very usefull!! now i'm ready to color my draws!! a ton of thanks, also for all the other tutorials!
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Thank you for the great tutorial, as well as all the nice detailed answers to people's questions.
Will find it very useful, thanks!
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God, god, veryGOD. Thanks. Add in ENGLISH TUTORIALS
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thanks a lot mate
but do u separate the lineart from the background before u color? or u keep it on flat white background?
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it's all personal choice on that part.
sometimes i do, sometimes i don't.
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man I really stuck on this phase last time....thanks a lot
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i dont get how ure lines are so damn clean... is it just because the pic here is a lil zoomed out? or at 100% zoom at 300 dpi? my 0.5 lead looks rough still..
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up close my lines look quite a bit more rough
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i see.. well anyways, greate tutorials (your others also) =]
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hey chamba, i have a question, i see that in most of your works you outline the figure darker than you have everything else levelled... this doesn't explain that part of the process, can you show me, or let me know how you do that??
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that's simply a manually drawn outline (pretty self explanatory there).
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so, you purposely increase pressure around the character to create a darker outline when leveling?
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ok cool, how bout burning, burning around the character can work well too right?...
srry if i'm askin too many questions
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experiment a bit.
you'll get something that you'll like the outcome of.
that's the best thing i can suggest.
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This is a wonderful idea, but I cannot help but wonder how you get your initial sketch to be so clean. I mean, I admit I am kind of a messy sketcher/drawer and tend to press down hard on the paper, even when I try not to. (kinda annoying, really). So I am curious, what size and weight lead do you usually use? And on what size paper? O o;; If yeh don't mind my asking, that is. ^ ^;;
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the size paper/weight lead I use is usually shown in the artist's comment of every piece.
as for what size lead, for base lines it's a regular wooden pencil, and for the clean lines it's 0.5
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Ahh, I see. Alrighty then; thanks!
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this helps alot! every time i see a graph my mind goes blank 
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I must be missing something. Even after all this time, I still can't get your tutorial here to work for me.
How about a quick Video Tutorial with Camtasia Studio or smething?
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This is what i do right. but i have an A4 scanner and i draw on A4 and my lines don't come out that sharp. Do you work bigger? or are you a freak?
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i don't work bigger and i don't think I'm a freak.. so I guess it could be the size lead you draw w/.
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yeh. probs. Oh! also when you draw your light construction lines with 4h (i use an F) do you have to erase them before you scan or are they so light you can't see them??
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they're pretty light so i don' erase anything (unless of course I stuff up a line and need to erase it)
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