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First you scan in a picture you've drawn, or maybe a friend drew it or a brother or sister or coworker... :)
I have no recommendations for you on that end... except a little advice... scanning a picture takes memory. The
bigger the picture, the more the memory... soooo, try never to scan a picture with more than 300 dpi
You don't need more than that anyway, you aren't a professional... heheh.
Anyway, once you get your picture scanned shrink it by 3 to 5x and reduce resolution to 75 dpi... that will make it web
friendly ... :) Assuming you are going to publish it to the web... :)
I could go into the ins and outs of cleaning up your penciled work... but again, this is all about coloring... so...
if you want a cleaning up your lineart section, you'll have to request it.
| So here we have our scanned in lineart... |
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| This piece is shaded with pencil already.... *bandwidth my fellow artists* keeps my art at bay...:( |
Generally, you will want a few copies of the same picture. To make things simple *or more complicated, depending
on your point of view and which style you prefer*, one copy will be straight line art the other will be shaded in pencil.
Now if you already shaded your picture, that's okay... you can still use the technique known as cleaning your line art
to make a straight line template of your picture.
Of course the more shading the harder the job... but it can be done.
So go ahead and assume we've done the aforementioned techniques... :)
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