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Edit: Eyes tutorial, featuring this same character, is up: [link]A sister tutorial to the last Cleaning up Lines Tutorial [link] I really appreciated the feedback that I got, so thank all of you, and I'm glad it was helpful to some.
A lot of people mentioned that it's hard for them to sketch cleanly, so the last tutorial didn't really apply. I have the same problem, and it takes a looooot of extra work on paper (erase, erase, draw, erase) to get pencil lines clean enough to start coloring off of. So.... that's why I often turn to Digital Inking!
Here are some of the ways that I do Digital Inking. I know the "trace directly over the original image" is probably the most common method, but it's hard to do without a tablet and also hard for people with unsteady hands, so that's why I talked a bit about other methods.
As usual, comments/feedback appreciated so I can incorporate them into future projects. Thanks and
to all of you!
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Great Tutorial! I really like the part where you describe the pen tool. To many tutorials around assume you already know what your doing, but since I don't, this one really helps
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thanks.....i hope it'll help me......
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This is a great tutorial! And it l;ooks like it's helping a lot of people! ^^ Thanks!
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oh this is very helpful
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chiao's!!!!!! This is really really helpful!! Thanks!! (now i can use the pen tool and not screw it up!!)
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wow, that pen tool technique is really a good idea, i should try that ^^
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Well damn. >_<
And I always used tablet to making clean lines and that was like a pain in my butt...
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Whhaa....i think it's the best tutorial i've seen so far!
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wow, i really dont agree with how you use Flash for that... you just piled the lines up on top of each other and then tweaked them?
messy...
i like to put the lines into place as im going along, anythign that overlaps i leave till later... a lot of the time i convert to a movieClip and put those bits on another layer all together, then combine them on the same layer at the end.
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Sweet sister of Jesus! This was awesome 
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wow, thats really good, helped me a lot, thanx!
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The presentation of this tutorial is so pretty!
Nice tutorial and drawing too.
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Hey,
Wel first of all I wonna tell you that this is a great tutorial for me, as I have a lot of problem with the linart.
But now I have a bit of a problem and I hoped you could help me with that.
In method 2, you say you have to right-click on the lines, well if I do that, I cant select 'stroke subpath' So I'm wondering If I do it wrong or something. Maybe you can tell me how to do it?
many regards
Rajini
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you probably have pen tool set to "shape" instead of just "pen." Look in the options and try selecting the icon with a pen through the path.
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Thank you! Really It finally works!
I don't know how I can thank you, but if you know something, let me know, I will do it,
Thanks again!
Rajini
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hahaha, just draw and draw if you love to do it. That's the best way of thanking me!
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Okey I'll do that
can't live without it
Rajini
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Very cute picture used! Though I'm not really sure about the capsul... Is it a pill? Hard to swallow I think! 
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yeah... it's a capsule... I'll post a bigger version of it shortly, but basically the girl has caught lightning bugs in a capsule, and the bugs are very very sad. ^^
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This is really helpful! Thanks so much!
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ooh wow...
this is cool~
i think i'll save this to my favorites and practice practice practice~
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This looks good. Too bad it uses tools I don't have.
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Oh wow! Thanks a lot. I think this will really help with my sketches.
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This is tutorial is awesome! 100% awesomely awesome! 
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Brilliant tutorial, thanks, it's really helpful!
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Wuaaaaa...
so cute...., so detail, so great...
I love her hair... he he... shiny...
Thanx 4 the tutorial...
That's great !!!
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really nice tutorial. i've never thought about using flash for the outlines, i'll have to try it
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Hooray, part two!
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Thanks to this I started playing around with my path tool.
I got a question, with the path tool producing smooth lines do you think it's neccesary to still have a Tablet?
I recently put an order for a Tablet, but with the path tool it almost seems like I don't need one.
Oh and I'm faving this!
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oh yes. I certainly recommend a tablet. Shading and just sketching is a lot easier. Remember--pressure sensitivity for coloring!
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i use the line tool most of the time rather than meh tablet.
learned two things:
1) tablet works better with painter. (ooooh! So that would account for a lot of that dumb thing's problem! XD)
2) i learned another pen tool technique!
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So excellent. Well done, me likes your tutorial madam. I shall have to look around your gallery for the rest.
Thanks for sharing our mthods with us all!
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I think you should do a tutorial for coloring in photoshop. That would be cool!
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... but i did do one!
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I found it. Thanks a lot!
This will help me a ton!
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gaahh!
I though really interesting the tutorial, specially the pen tool at photoshop
But I couldn't make it!
I don't know why everytime I use pen tool, the points that I make get fill with color.
and when I right click on the path, the "stroke subpath" don't appear selectable!
Is there a configuration I need to change?
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Hi tigger!
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thank u X3~
Now I could make it
It's a very different way to make final art
Thanks for the tutorial ^^
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you're welcome! Yeah, it is very different. I love your work, btw, and your flash animations!
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Good... More information, he, he, he...
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This is such an effective tutorial! Must fav!
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