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Choose your own adventure?	54.8%	[ 23 ]
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Total Votes:			[ 42 ]

[Sam Skip Sam]

The 3rd one's going on right now but not so many entries. razz I'm gonna launch my huge personal one in October. Such fun!

[The Awsome SQUEEGLE]

That's what I do for some of my edits. I print them out and edit the lines then scan them back in and go over the lines with my tablet. It really helps me.

[surreality]

I am having a difficult time with inking - it seems that it doesn't matter if my brush is at 100% hardness, my lines still look soft. Any suggestions on how to make them sharper?

[Sayuri_Nitta]

Okay, anyways, this is my editing skill using pencil, ink + coloured pencils;
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v119/Sati_Nitta/mimeo_lum.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v119/Sati_Nitta/mimeo_leeloolines.jpg


Oh? I don't really get time for contests lately..maybe after I've moved whilst I'm trying to find a job heh ^_^

[Taejira]

SUBSCRIBE'D biggrin !

[Sam Skip Sam]

surreality

I am having a difficult time with inking - it seems that it doesn't matter if my brush is at 100% hardness, my lines still look soft. Any suggestions on how to make them sharper?

The way that I've found to make inking sharper if you're working in photoshop is to just bump up your pixel resolution until you're far above the size you need. When you downsize it to display size the lines will appear much crisper.

[Sabin Duvert]

Hunh - I'd never heard that before, Sam! I generally have the same problem with softer-looking lines than the lineart unless I'm working at 1 pixel, in which case it looks too scraggly.

Sayuri - those are adorable! I don't think I'd seen those entries before ^.^

[Sayuri_Nitta]

Heh thanks - If I can do these characters like that, then I will be fine XD

[Sam Skip Sam]

Sabin Duvert

Hunh - I'd never heard that before, Sam! I generally have the same problem with softer-looking lines than the lineart unless I'm working at 1 pixel, in which case it looks too scraggly.

That lineart is adorable! heart

Yeah, working at 1 pixel gives icky aliasing. The thing I've found is that you just need more pixels when drawing because if you have too few the brushes will give you that fuzzy edge to anti-alias.. when you downsize from working with a larger brush, its just like downsizing a full color piece of art- it sharpens up and allows for more detail at display size.

Just my experience anyway razz I tend to do a lot of my inking in vectors with illustrator but it depends..

[Kimie Kitty]

Hungry Ghost

When I first got into B/C, I assumed that to do edits, people printed the lines, drew them in, scanned them, and then colored. xD

Some people do that, actually. XD

[Graphophobia]

/thankfully has Alche helping her out a little bit/ I've never done shading before, so this could look all wrong...


So far it's mostly her hair, and the bits around it.

[Sam Skip Sam]

*is gonna make one tonight*

[surreality]

That's probably why I'm having a difficult time editing - I'm used to working much larger images so that softened edges are never a problem. Someone suggested just sharpening the lines once I'm done, and that seems to be doing a good job.

[Sam Skip Sam]

surreality

That's probably why I'm having a difficult time editing - I'm used to working much larger images so that softened edges are never a problem. Someone suggested just sharpening the lines once I'm done, and that seems to be doing a good job.

If you need to substantially upsize it, you might try doing a live trace in illustrator, if you have access to it. That'll vectorize it, then you can scale it up, and re-rasterize it into photoshop.

[Graphophobia]

@Kimie - Yeah, but I thought that because I didn't even know tablets existed. xD /haunts happily/