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Eris:
I am guessing he is talking about the line quality. Around all the sad woman's hair the lines are all sketchy, and in general the lines are inconsistent with their widths, making them not look very smooth. You are doing this on a tablet, right? What is the size of the canvas-thingy are you using? I found that even though it seems a bit silly, if I use a large sized thing then the lines look smoother than if I use a smaller one, because when I resize the picture to not being ginormous it smooths out the little bumps in the lines that occur when I try and neaten them up. Uhm, for a comparison, look at these two pictures:
vs.
They are about the same level of sketchiness, but the dancer's lines look cleaner than the gypsy. I can't find an already-uploaded example on my photobucket, but my lines generally are all over the place with the thicknesses when I have really sketchy lines that I neaten up and make thinner with the eraser and they are all wobbly-looking. Shrinky-dinking things to remove the little inconsistencies is what a lot of people (including Jeph, if I remember correctly) do.
PrickOfDestiny:
--- Quote from: Eris on 27 May 2009, 02:48 ---I am guessing he is talking about the line quality. Around all the sad woman's hair the lines are all sketchy, and in general the lines are inconsistent with their widths, making them not look very smooth. You are doing this on a tablet, right? What is the size of the canvas-thingy are you using? I found that even though it seems a bit silly, if I use a large sized thing then the lines look smoother than if I use a smaller one, because when I resize the picture to not being ginormous it smooths out the little bumps in the lines that occur when I try and neaten them up. Uhm, for a comparison, look at these two pictures:
They are about the same level of sketchiness, but the dancer's lines look cleaner than the gypsy. I can't find an already-uploaded example on my photobucket, but my lines generally are all over the place with the thicknesses when I have really sketchy lines that I neaten up and make thinner with the eraser and they are all wobbly-looking. Shrinky-dinking things to remove the little inconsistencies is what a lot of people (including Jeph, if I remember correctly) do.
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Oh, I get what you mean :) To answer the question, those are the unshrunken pictures, which I draw on 600x600 canvas with a 3 pixel brush (not the pencil, for a less pixelly aspect). I end up shrinking them to about 50% scale, of course. My pages would be ginormous otherwise. Also, it probably doesn't help that my drawing style on paper is rather sketchy too...
Preview after resizing, and sorry about the white bits around Melpie, I don't know what the hell Potatobukkit did to my images in the first place:
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Is it any better?
est:
The lines are still really sketchy though. You should probably try sketching out your pics then creating a new layer and going over what you've sketched so the lines are more fluid.
Jace:
Also, make your original canvas larger.
PrickOfDestiny:
--- Quote from: PantsFTW on 27 May 2009, 05:37 ---Also, make your original canvas larger.
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Will do. How about a frame four times as big as what I intend it to be and a 5px brush?
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