Save your sketch!

There are a lot of times when I regret the design. Sometimes I like the face, but I give them the wrong clothes. So to save the art I made, I use the following long process.

So what I do is draw the figure. I feel that it is much easier to draw the figure then add the fabric on top, instead of drawing with fabric from the start.



Then you level it up to make the likes more visible. [ctrl + L]



I chose the following design for the character on the right.


I add the costume and scan. Then I change the pencil color to blue using photoshop.


After I change the color, I print the blue picture out. Then I ink it.


After you scan it in go to channel, and drag the picture into the red circle shown below.


Then you get a somewhat clean picture.


Delete the original picture in the layer, then copy the Blue Copy into the layer to get the nice crisp picture.

lol, thx for the tip! except i dont ink my drawings, and i dont have that rbg thing to clear away and stuff, (psp7) do you always draw em naked at first? cuz what if someone comes in and see's you drawin the first few steps?

Then you and they both do your utmost to be reasonable, mature adults and realize that all professional artists draw the figure before the clothing, because otherwise it would be far too easy to get the proportions and foreshortening off. ^^

If you want to be an artist, you'll get used to it; figure drawing classes have nude models, and there's certainly no giggling or funny business about it.

Well, unless the model takes on a very random pose.

But despite saying so, the first male nude in class raises definately a few giggles from a few of the female students.

What can one say? He's 23....tall, blond, lean, and he's got a six pack. :)

ill probably do sumthing stupid the first time i paint a nude model... or wateva... ^^

pretty nice tip ^^

Thanks for the tips Rain.

icbm1987

Rain's characters must have terrible back problems.

ROFL

and I wonder how the hell they keep their nipples from showing? especially the one on the left o_0

Thats all useful, but can you get rid of blue using PSP7?????

and why is it always blue btw?

its a lil convention since artists often use blue pencils to sketch then they ink it and erase the blue pencil lines.

Blue sketching pencils don't show up in scans, so it's just become the sketch color standard.

I need to find me some blue sketching pencils....

YES THEY DO!

that doesnt make sense dude, and i realized that the drawing was used in poor night elves (one with the females really appreciating each other) comic thing, as if you didnt already know

I believe blue pencils show up in scans; one specific shade doesn't show up in photocopies and photographs. Should be called "non-photo blue."

Having never taken a photo class, and almost never using a photocopier, I hope I got that right. ^^

Rain got rid of the blue after scanning by doing some crazy contortions with the colour channels.