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atonypro
Joined: 21 Sep 2006
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 Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 12:55 pm Post subject: Digital Inking |
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Does anyone know how you can digitally ink a scanned pencil drawing for a comic book? |
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lasa
Joined: 08 Aug 2005
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I would recommend a WACOM pen. You can't really get that ink flow look from a mouse since it does not have pressure the sensitivity needed to give your work the inked look and feel.
Other then that I would imagine using a vector program like Illustartor.
(The pentool in PS would take to long, you'd die before finishing it)
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atonypro
Joined: 21 Sep 2006
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| Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 9:52 am Post subject: yeah. |
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I use a Wacom. But I don't know the "technique" for the inking. Is it just going over the drawing with the pen tool? If that's the case what's the point? I could just ink the real drawing then scan.
I would think that there would be some kind of advantage to doing it in PS. A "technique" that would make it a lot faster and easier.
Yes? No? |
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lasa
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I personally INK (real black ink) my line drawings then scan them in, faster cleaner. The only advantage that I see is if you screw up..but that really isn't an issue because that is what the blue pencil drawing was for...
Now coloring it, yes... PS is the way to go for me.
Line drawing no way... Now if I want a vector feel/look to my inked drawing I'll run it thru Adobe Steamline 4, any vectorizing program would do the same.
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clig73
Joined: 29 Sep 2006
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| Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 12:05 pm Post subject: Digital Inking |
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Something I picked up in my art school days (and this was back with Photoshop 4!)...
Start with VERY clean pencil art-- edges should be very sharp (a mechanical pencil is good for this) and pretty dark (2b lead is usually enough). Here would be a good case for "spotting blacks" (ie- don't fill in large areas of black with pencil, but use a small "x" to indicate where the fills are)
Scan your page at the highest resolution possible in GRAYSCALE (takes a long time, but not as much as inking)
In PS, adjust your levels. Move the black slider LEFT, to just where the right peak begins to rise. Move the white slider RIGHT, to where the left peak begins to rise. You can adjust the gray slider to fine tune.
Now you can use the paint bucket to fill in all your spotted blacks, then reduce the page to your working size (standard pages are usually 300dpi)
Hope that helps! |
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