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MichaelMetcalf — Line-weight Tutorial
Published: 2013-07-10 05:22:10 +0000 UTC; Views: 15423; Favourites: 224; Downloads: 129
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Here are a few general tips for using line weight. I'm not always 100% consistent with my use of these guidelines but hopefully this drawing illustrates them fairly well.-Mike
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Thank you 
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This. This was a biiig help, learning from this marked a huge turning point in my work like, a year back I think. Thank you so much for this.
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Thanks for the thoughtful feedback!
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In the art groups I'm in, this became the standard go-to tutorial we post every time line weight needs to be explained or we give someone a crit on their lines. It really just sums up things so well in a very visual and easy to understand way. Thank you for making it!
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AW! Thank you thank you thank you!
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I hope you don't mind, but I've referred several people to this tutorial as a quick reference lesson in line weight in some critiques I have recently given out. I find it is a good visual start for people to understand what I am referring to. Thank you for posing it.
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Good tutorial not just for the example and teachings, but for the fact that it's ridiculous space-efficient compared to about 90% of tutorials on this site. Great work!
Line weight is definitely something I need to practice more...
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thanks for your kind feedback!
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I begin to use lineweight after i saw this picture, thanks a lot for the tips!!
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intresting, i never thought of using the pencil tool to ink
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Yeah! Some good things about using the pencil tool:
1) It is easy to clean up your lines using either the pencil eraser or the pencil with white "ink". Lines made with a brush are harder to clean up because you have to try to match the antialiasing and opacity blends.
2) pretty easy to fill color areas with the pain bucket (if you enclose most of your areas with unbroken pencil lines).
3) always delivers sharp crisp lines. If you want to soften them, you can apply a slight blur or median effect later.
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oh what size is your finished artwork
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For comic art, whatever finished size I want at about 300 or 400 DPI.
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What are the brush settings for a hard line like this brah?
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I use the pencil tool and then flatten and reduce size of image before saving for web. If you work at about twice the final size or larger and then reduce the finished art it stays sharp with out looking pixelated.
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thanks to you! I could ink properly for the first time which is something I struggled with for a long time! KUDOS to you sir!
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GREAT! Thanks for commenting!
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Thanks for the kind words!
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I had tried everything because of this im always one step ahead ive finally reached the top keep this between us
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