Here's a few tips that might make things easier, though:
"I used to look around for tricks to inking digitally too, until one day I saw a video of one of my favourite artists inking and said "HEY. For example if I wanna draw a chopper's tank I draw the top smooth line quickly and then draw the rest of the lines, they all overlay each other and it looks messy. Then on the second layer above it I start the tiresome process of Lineart using an 8 pixel hard brush, and sometimes 7 or 6 pixels.įor round and smooth lines that are hard to get I just make a quick stroke and then erase the extra lines. Here is how I do it digitally when I'm not using a traditional sketch:įirst a rough sketch, and I isolate it in its own layer then set its opacity to 50 or something near that value. It raised my Lineart cleanliness from 24% to 98%, yeah, really. If your cursor is behaving erratically it may indicate a problem with your tablet or drivers.) Some posts have been edited for brevity or spelling:
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Most of these assume that you have a digital tablet. Some of the techniques described below may contradict other techniques described below so you may want to experiment and decide what works best for you. Is your line art shaky, wobbly, sloppy, fat, uneven or pixelated? The subject of clean line art comes up a lot so I've gathered together a number of tips from various DA members that may help you improve your line art.