How do you make your lineart?
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Topic: How do you make your lineart?
Posted By: MechVisor
Subject: How do you make your lineart?
Date Posted: 03 January 2008 at 8:26pm
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Hi there, In these questions I'm interested: 1. Do you make it PixelByPixel (without any scratch)? 2. Do you create a scratch with your mouse before? 3. Do you create a scratch with your graphic tablet before? 4. Do you create a scratch with pen & paper and scan it before? I don't know..., but if I make my art like method one, then I don't manage it to make bigger sprites. I have a scanner, but no imagine how I could do it. If I scan my scratch, it's too big, and after minimizing it looks like Pixel Chaos. lol Hope you understand what I mean, and hope I'm right here for this sort of questions. |
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Posted By: leel
Date Posted: 03 January 2008 at 8:41pm
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Uh well today I traced a sketch for the first time and it was a huge pain in the butt, but I know a lot of people do that and get amazing results. usually I do a rough drawing with a mouse (though tablet works too, depends on the size I guess) and then just clean up. I should have a wip image with my process somewhere... *goes to look*  Here's one (right to left) I've also been experimenting with just blocking out colors right away and then detailing - no lines involved. Like this:  You should play around and see what suits you best. ------------- |
Posted By: greenraven
Date Posted: 03 January 2008 at 8:53pm
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I don't have a tablet, so choice 3 is out. I do have a scanner, but I've never used it for drawing. There goes option 4. Sometimes I just do a bunch swiggles and doogles with the mouse. Sometimes I know exactly what it is that I'm going to draw from the start. It's a 50/50 there between 1 and 2. -------------  "pwnage comes with patience, practice and planning." ~ Jalonso 
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Posted By: Pixel_Outlaw
Date Posted: 03 January 2008 at 8:58pm
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I outsource to Korea. You might ask one of them. ------------- http://www.shmup-dev.com/forum/"> 
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Posted By: MechVisor
Date Posted: 03 January 2008 at 9:05pm
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Wow, I didn't know, that you two make all your lineart with your mouse at the beginning. I did it all by method one, but it's not good to conceptualizing. However, it's my thinking about method one. If you make little objects and so on I think method one will be a good choice. Ok, I'm now going to sleep, later I'm anxious to read your replies. |
Posted By: pixelblink
Date Posted: 03 January 2008 at 10:48pm
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I tend to block out things before I get into it. I always have a rough idea in mind but sometimes I let a bit of trial and error chisel away at it. Sometimes I get something completely different than what I set out to do in the first place. |
Posted By: Hapiel
Date Posted: 04 January 2008 at 1:41am
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I do alot with graphics tablet. I sketch for like 1 minute, than with mouse I place a pixel by pixel line over it, than remove the sketch, then refine the line and then its done :)
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Posted By: MechVisor
Date Posted: 04 January 2008 at 8:18am
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Hm, most of you use different ways to create your art. If you paint an avatar, a little icon or someone else, in such cases pixel by pixel is recommended, because, it's difficult to sketch a work on such a size. Isn't it? |
Posted By: leel
Date Posted: 04 January 2008 at 8:36am
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Well it depends on what it is - like your avatar would've been easily sketched because there's large open areas of color. My avatar was sketched too, and it was fine. Little icons like 16x16 might be pretty difficult to sketch out XD ------------- |
Posted By: Pixel_Outlaw
Date Posted: 04 January 2008 at 8:58am
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Originally posted by leel
Little icons like 16x16 might be pretty difficult to sketch out XD Those little 16x16 ships in my gallery were. ------------- http://www.shmup-dev.com/forum/">
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Posted By: Monkey 'o Doom
Date Posted: 04 January 2008 at 12:37pm
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Me, I go to the future, take line art from my future self, and then return to the past and redraw it. But you could also use the pencil tool at 800x zoom, if you couldn't get to your time machine. ------------- http://pixelmonkey.ensellitis.com"> 
RPG is numberwang. |
Posted By: Reo
Date Posted: 04 January 2008 at 3:17pm
I often skip lineart
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Posted By: volcom
Date Posted: 04 January 2008 at 5:31pm
To start a pixel what i have started to do is sorta neatly scribbled (if there is such thing) what i want...then clean it up.
 sorta like this, even though its horrible...just to show. There were lots of steps from 3 and 4...just didn't want to fill the screen with 10 steps ------------- <WHERE AN OBAMANATION> |
Posted By: MechVisor
Date Posted: 04 January 2008 at 6:32pm
Where I can find the time machine? I'm interested in it. 
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Posted By: Tarenken
Date Posted: 05 January 2008 at 4:45pm
| I usually pixel humanoids, so I take the same steps I use when I draw... well, pixelized obviously. XD |
Posted By: Metaru
Date Posted: 06 January 2008 at 12:03am
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I've tried the 4 options. yet the 3rd one is almots imposible for me. don't know why, but pixeling with a tablet is a pain in my arse. I can't draw without looking what i'm doing, and that means that i tend to look the tablet and not the screen = I fail. on the other side, An analog mouse gives me even more precision than any other tool. ------------- I ate leel's babies |
Posted By: Hapiel
Date Posted: 06 January 2008 at 2:17am
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Originally posted by Metaru don't know why, but pixeling with a tablet is a pain in my arse. I can't draw without looking what i'm doing, and that means that i tend to look the tablet and not the screen = I fail. It took me a few hours to learn that ;p, but sometimes my mother wants to draw something (for example this years xmas card) and than I have to say every second: 'mom, watch the screen!'  But if you can work accurate with the mouse, thats awesome too.. I really cant draw with the mouse.. however I did do my avatar with a mouse sketch... ------------- |
Posted By: schrumpfkopf
Date Posted: 06 January 2008 at 6:04am
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no real lineart - just big blops of colours connected with ugly strokes samples: http://img151.imageshack.us/my.php?image=duumr1.gif http://img178.imageshack.us/my.php?image=duusbroym9.gif |
Posted By: Dra_chan
Date Posted: 08 January 2008 at 12:05pm
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I create a scratch with the mouse, unrefined, to have an idea where things are going to be, then I use blocks of colors. Then I refine and add the actual lineart around the blocks. It's weird I know. I used to make all the lineart first, then color, but it's easier using blocks earlier. |
Posted By: Mille
Date Posted: 19 January 2008 at 3:38am
I sketch with the mouse.  But i always sketch on paper before for the ideas. |
Posted By: Kee
Date Posted: 27 January 2008 at 12:28pm
| :/ i do pixel by pixel. it gets hard |
Posted By: Blu
Date Posted: 27 January 2008 at 9:04pm
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I usually sketch first with the pencil tool, using the darker grey provided in the automatic MSPaint palette at the bottom, then go over with another color, get rid of the grey, and fix up what needs it.
If I don't (unless it's uber-small), it's really hard. x_X; I used to try to do it *perfectly* the first time around. Dear spork, am I glad I stopped doing that. :D
I don't have a tablet, and my sketching by hand isn't much better than on the computer. :P And I'm often too lazy to go over my pictures after scanning them in, especially since my pictures are seriously HUGE most of the time... ------------- Gremlins rule the world; you just don't know it yet. |
Posted By: Kee
Date Posted: 01 February 2008 at 11:25am
| Bluwriter, this is weird but we have almost the same approach! |