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(A detail of the work done on the cover art for Time Woes).

Wanted to put this online as an example of the process I go through while transitioning my pencil drawings to digital.
I have no access to a drawing tablet, or tools that let me turn the pencil lineart into digital lineart with ease. So, the method I use is going through the full lineart manually, remaking each line over the OG pencil drawing one by one with the software. It is a slow and somewhat annoying process, but the results often are good enough for what I want achieve so that's okay

This is also a moment where I often revise some details of the drawings, and you can see it here at play for Anne. I drew her quickly with pencil, and for the digital version I added back and changed the small details here and there that I didn't put too much attention in or outright missed in the OG drawing. Not that there aren't other details missing or amiss still (the digital lineart might be subject to more changes in the final image, the cover for Time Woes), but I think the improvement is still visible here compared to the pencil drawing.

Lastly, a small note about programs. For all my previous images, I used paint.net, which is still one of my favourite programs for image editing, though for art it is a bit harder to use. Its line tool is still one of my favourite features and let me re-do lines easily and effectively.
For this image, and for the cover of Time Woes, I'm using Krita in an attempt to find a program that can help me work quicker with a software that is designed for art first. Krita is harder to use as I have to use a combination of stabilized freehand brushes, Bezier curves and shapes to achieve everything I did with just the line tool with paint.net, and the results often are a bit worse at my current level (paint.net's line tool is incredible), but my frog () is it faster, especially for certain aspects. We shall see how the final image turns out but I think I'll stick with Krita from now on for the rare times I'll try to do art for fandoms in the future.

Description
(A detail of the work done on the cover art for Time Woes).

Wanted to put this online as an example of the process I go through while transitioning my pencil drawings to digital.
I have no access to a drawing tablet, or tools that let me turn the pencil lineart into digital lineart with ease. So, the method I use is going through the full lineart manually, remaking each line over the OG pencil drawing one by one with the software. It is a slow and somewhat annoying process, but the results often are good enough for what I want achieve so that's okay

This is also a moment where I often revise some details of the drawings, and you can see it here at play for Anne. I drew her quickly with pencil, and for the digital version I added back and changed the small details here and there that I didn't put too much attention in or outright missed in the OG drawing. Not that there aren't other details missing or amiss still (the digital lineart might be subject to more changes in the final image, the cover for Time Woes), but I think the improvement is still visible here compared to the pencil drawing.

Lastly, a small note about programs. For all my previous images, I used paint.net, which is still one of my favourite programs for image editing, though for art it is a bit harder to use. Its line tool is still one of my favourite features and let me re-do lines easily and effectively.
For this image, and for the cover of Time Woes, I'm using Krita in an attempt to find a program that can help me work quicker with a software that is designed for art first. Krita is harder to use as I have to use a combination of stabilized freehand brushes, Bezier curves and shapes to achieve everything I did with just the line tool with paint.net, and the results often are a bit worse at my current level (paint.net's line tool is incredible), but my frog () is it faster, especially for certain aspects. We shall see how the final image turns out but I think I'll stick with Krita from now on for the rare times I'll try to do art for fandoms in the future.