Advice

Cy · Post by Cy » Sat May 06, 2006 6:07 pm

So, I've hit a small problem. My .1 ink pen and my smallest micron pen have vanished. All I have are my .3, .5, .7 and thin sharpie. But some of the images I need to ink have very small details, and I'm positive that my larger pens will totally screw them up. Any advice on how I can get them from the paper to computer o.O Scanning them as they are would leave me with a lot of stuff to clean up... not that I mind, but it'd be quicker to ink them then scan them XD

Omniwite · Post by **Omniwite** » Sat May 06, 2006 7:05 pm

Do you have anything you can use to ink them on another piece of paper? Like a light box or something that you can use to shine the light under the drawing and trace using another piece of paper? At least that way, if you mess up with the thicker pens, it won't ruin the entire picture.

Cy · Post by Cy » Sat May 06, 2006 7:21 pm

Nope, I don't have anything of the sort. What the problem with the thicker lines is I can't get the smaller details. A lightbox wouldn't help there =/ I'm two of the images I'm working on have two really small creatures, to help visualise the difference between the sizes. A thicker line would render them... blobs o.O

Omniwite · Post by **Omniwite** » Sat May 06, 2006 8:18 pm

Wow... I didn't realize they were that small! Sorry I wasn't any help; hopefully someone else has some good ideas. ^^;

Cy · Post by Cy » Sat May 06, 2006 8:19 pm

It's fine =]

Yakima · Post by **Yakima** » Sun May 07, 2006 8:37 pm

*tries to teleport/cybersend her .02 Micron pen to Cy but fails*

I only have .02 and .08

Cy · Post by Cy » Sun May 07, 2006 8:45 pm

I'm going to see if I can get someone to run me by Michaels to pick up some new pens tomorrow =]

Post by **Dray** » Sun May 07, 2006 8:54 pm

Try scanning in the sketch, then inking it on the computer? It's pretty time-consuming (especially if you're doing it by mouse, like I've gotta!) but it's do-able! Just do the inks on a new layer and then trash the scanned sketch afterwards! You have all the line-widths you could want!