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WhiskerWing — Whiskerwing's Lineart Tutorial
Published: 2005-08-16 02:25:16 +0000 UTC; Views: 17420; Favourites: 247; Downloads: 2559
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Well, I've gone and done it. I've had so many people ask me how I do my lineart and coloring, I've buckled and made a tutorial. Hopefully ya'll will find something useful in this, and grow and expand to create your own styles. =]Please note that this tutorial deals mainly with the inking part of my lineart.
I'll be finishing this picture, and making it my coloring tutorial, so stay posted!
Thank you to everyone who's expressed an interest in how I art. 
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Could you please perhaps to an added extra mini tutorial on how you do this?
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Actually, there are quite a few good tutorials out on DA for cleaning up lineart in Photoshop -- here's one I just did a search for. [link] =] *hugs* Good luck!!
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When you put the lineart in the computer do you have to do anything to enhance it or whateva?
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Well, my scanner is evil, so yeah. I usually take it into photoshop and play with the levels till the background is white and the lineart is still clean. Then I take the burn tool and go to town!! BURNBURNBURN till the lineart is a lovely shade of black.
=] That's all.
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Congrats you got a fave by me.
Especially considering how I am doing the whole wolf thing.
Just a quick question..
have you ever wanted to water colour with your line art? to get that washed feel but still have the lineart? have you done this before? if so, how do you watercolour without like going over the lines.
also once doing the lineart like this.. do you scan it and colour on the comp? do you have problems with this?
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Yes, I have indeed wanted to watercolor with my lineart. But my watercolor skills are less than nonexistant. I use watercolors for my backgrounds, and then go over them with colored pencil to achieve the effect I'm looking for. =]
And since my lines are pretty thick, it's easy enough to stay in them with the watercolors, but if I had thinner lines it'd be a pain, and nearly impossible to control, methinks.
And sometimes I scan in my lineart and then digitally color it, but I'm not very good at digital art, so I usually just color it with colored pencils. But I've had people take my inked lineart from my scraps and come out with some amazing digitally colored art. =]
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hey agien.. 
I got your tutorial now
I tryed on a diffrent computer and the downlod worked here yay 
Great tutorial
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Hi WhiskerWing!
It's me agien hehe.. I just wanted to say that all the new art you have done seens I was here last time is wonderful as usal
I also got a problem..don't know if it is my dads crappy computer who is to slow or if it is somthing else yet..but anyway I cant see your toturial 
OOH I almost forgott.. I have finaly created my own character 
Byeee!! 
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Hmmmm, the whole thing's showing up for me...try again and let me know if it's still busted. DA was having some problems withe full-views yesterday, and you may have caught the tail end of it.
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Very easy to read, great tutorial...:3 Ish too bad my inking's STILL crappy
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*giggles* Well, so's mine, I just hide it with thicker bits on the lines. =] I've seriously got some of the shakiest hands of anyone I know. =]
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Aww 
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I'll definetly keep this in mind. Us beginners thank you 
-I can't spell today-
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*hugs* I hope it helps!!
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I'd like to try micron pens. But I don't know anything about em. Ya think something like this is a good deal? [link]
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If you can't get them from your local store, then yes. But if you have an art store nearby, I'd wait. Based on my own personal observations (which I guarantee "real" artists would scoff at) I don't need THAT many different sizes. I'm barely able to tell the differences in line width when they're really close together, and I tend to use a single pen and vary thicknesses on each line anyway.
So it's a good deal for if you WANT the whole set, but since I only use like three pens, that's a lot more expensive than my working set. If that makes sense.
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Oh thanks! I'll definetly be looking for them anyway!
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oOo extremely helpful, since all my paper inkings look like fluffy poop. 
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*giggles* Fluffy poop. I'm going to be thinking that all day now thanks to you.
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lol sorry
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oooh very helpful I will use it.
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o_o Wow, it takes you a long time. Usualy it only takes me half an hour to ink and finish the whole thing!
Wonderful picture, and nice tutorial
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yeah, it takes me a LONG time to do each picture. That's why it's taking so long to get all the prizes out, and I'm working on them pretty steadily.
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Oh, good luck then.
I just tried using your tutorial last night- I think it must take you longer, as well, because you take more care and you do It a LOT bigger. I like to work smallish, less that a quarter of a 8 1/2 -11 paper.
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WOW.
Yes, the one I'm using for the tutorial is even larger than I normally do, and it's two characters on top of that.
But even so, I am never able to work that small...I use up almost the whole page on all my stuff.
If you normally work that small, you'll need to downgrade the pen sizes prolly by two so you don't lose details. =]
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and 0.8, for bigger stuff (I have two .5s) and a .005 in red, just for fun
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oooo...very goood...simple yet it explains the situation!
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*laughs* Actually, I usually work on much smaller paper -- just bigger than regular computer paper.
For this one, I wanted to get a lot of detail, and I felt like doing a larger picture, so I found one of my old, old, old pieces from a great big drawing pad I had once, and decided to use it. I wish I hadn't, because it's not made for watercolors, and watercolors make backgrounds easy. I haven't decided what I'll do for a background yet. =]
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Well considering the picture is cute you can have a cute back ground. Thats no help at all is it?
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LOL, I'm more worried about media than style. =]
And yup, I usually use all of a single average-sized paper for a single character picture.
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oh how i love this
can't wait for the coloring tutorial 
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And OMG I love your new icon!!
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this is a great tutorial, your lineart is great and this tutorial is going to help lots of people, like me XD
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*laughs* You don't need any help, Griffin! Your art is already fantabulous!
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aaww is this kind of comments that makes me feel better about my art 
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omg! That is so awesome! :0 That helps a lot! Thank gawd I just got my micropens ^0^ Now you have to make a colorig tutorial xD
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OMG that's AWESOME! You are so extremely talented!
Worship your skills, talent, style and your patience!
Can't wait to see it colored, so pweeease make it as soon as you can
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i love seeing how other people draw.... it's always an insight.... ooo you use the same pens I do
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XD, my store has a 1.2 and I think two more higher than that.
But I wanted more control, so I kept to a 1.
And yes, I LOVE 'em!
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Ah so the pens you use are a 03, 08 and 1?
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Yup!
I'll be getting a 01 sometime soon for really fine lines and structure details, like on the faces. But for now, my 03 works just fine.
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Ah ok! I gotta go get a 03, & 08 they seem really good. Right now I only have an 05 and 1 lol
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