Ilustración Digital

Clean blue sketch traditional
line-art to color it digital with in
Krita
PUBLISHED ON 22 AUGUST 2014
Update: Spanish version available on Chalo Blogg.
Intro
This is a tutorial about the "traditional to digital" topic. You'll see all the step I use for
drawing, scanning and cleaning my traditional line-art when I use this technique on my
webcomic Pepper&Carrot. In the first part of the tutorial, I'll show you my workflow for
sketching, and 'inking' with pencil. In the second part, we will scan the lines, and clean
them in Krita to keep only the pencil artwork. In the last part, I'll show how to tint the
lines, and make them transparent to be ready to receive a full color work later.
1. Warming up
I start with a sheet of A4 random tiny sketches. I usually draw facial expression, then
poses and sometime thumbnails. It's not meant to look like the good sketch you'll put
into a book. It is doodling, something you'll keep for yourself; your visual notes. I do that
to be in sync with my volumes, and also break the stress to draw badly later on the final
sheet. On this session (illustration under), a little thumbnail had my attention. I outlined it
in orange on the visual. It's certainly a classic composition, or something a bit cliché for
a run and jump pose ; but I wanted to see this one with more details.
2. Guidelines
I take my reference on the side of my desk [1] and with a new sheet of paper I start
drawing guidelines [2] . I keep them very light and subtle, with minimal pressure on my
blue pen. I use Pentel Blue lead in 0.5mm. I tested also many other brands, and the
Pentel are the one who suit more my taste and drawing style. You can see I trace large
arc ; and keep the whole things undetailed. I'm looking for composition, and energy. My
gesture are large, and I handle the pen also differently than usual to not draw with the
wrist or finger, but involve the whole arm in the gesture.
3. Blue sketch
I keep drawing with my blue pencil, and add details. I'm doing my best to build the main
volumes. I usually keep the shapes simple. I need to let room for still getting a bit of
freedom on the next step. The goal is not to make a perfect blue sketch, then to just
overwrite each one of lines. That would be just boring.
4. Erasing
With my kneaded eraser, I soft erase my blue sketch. Pentel blue lines are really hard to
erase, so you don't risk to loose a part of the drawing definitely anyway. The purpose of
this step is simple : make the sketch line easier to remove with Krita later, because they
will be less dark ; and also bring comfort to my inking process. With a bright sketch, it's
easier to see the rendering of your dark pencil lines.
5. Inking... well, without ink
I 'ink' my drawing with Stabilo lead pencil 0.5mm B , it's soft on my Bristol paper ; and
allow me dark and light grey variations. it's also very precise.
Note : my Cintiq 21UX don't allow me to draw with this same precision. That's why I'm
not using it. Pixels are too big, stylus too far from the surface, and stylus nib impact this
glass at 5mm over the real surface. So impracticable for my style of inking.
'Inking' is over !
6. Scan
I scan on my Xubuntu 14.04 Linux desktop with Xsane, from the default package. You
can notice on my screenshot my super compact dark windows border theme for Xfce.
My file manager is Nemo. I can setup Xsane to just grab all the surface of the scanner,
and save them as PNG 300dpi in color automatically on my disk.
7. Krita
I open my file in Krita (version 2.8.5 from the Kubuntu update ppa). The only
modifications I made on my Krita install is the usage of a dark theme and for the presets
my latest brushkit. The raw scanned file is available at the end of this tutorial.
8. Cropping
I rotate my Image with Image > Rotate > Rotate image 90° to the right . Then, I select
the crop tool , and in the tool options ; I activate the 'Thirds' Decoration. This lines helps
me to setup a better cropping. I added over the screenshot here under green line to
show you the composition lines I'm looking for.
9. Filter : Color Adjustment curves
Open Filter > Adjust > Color Adjustement curves, [1] and flatten the channel RED and
GREEN [2] , [3] . Don't touch the BLUE one [4]. You should get a full Blue picture. By
doing this, you'll merge the blue datas of your sketch into this ocean of blue ; and so,
sort of removing them.
Protip : Accelerate your workflow, save a preset for your filters the next time you need
to use them. It works for all the filter in Krita. Press 'Edit Presets' on the top-right corner
[1]. And then 'Bookmark current' [2]. Your preset will be added to the list [3] . You can
also rename the item with a right-click (eg. here : "RGB->Blue only" is my name for this
preset ).
10. Desaturate Max
Now, to remove all the blue in our artwork, call the Filter > Adjust > Desaturate , and use
the 'Max' option in the list.
11. Tweak values with Levels
Open the levels, Filter > Adjust > Levels and move the little black triangle cursor where
the histogram graph start to show datas [1] ; and clean all the white-grey noise [2]. When
you scan paper, you usually get a little mountain in the histogram on the white part
(right) to clean.
I also crop the black [3] because I want to avoid black pixels on my lines.
12. Manual cleaning
You have now time to just take a brush pick black or white color, and fix your artwork the
digital way. I don't use black, but a 90% black one, so I use my color history in the
advanced color selector [1] to retrieve the color each time. I manually clean the dust,
redo the line I didn't like, or deform and transform the whole drawing. I 'm drawing often
with a little rake [3] and clean with a bigger preset, like my roller-brush [2]. For this
artwork, I did only a classic dust-removal work, painting with white over all the little dark
grayish stain .
13. Line-art coloring
Open the Filter > Adjust > HSV Adjustement, and start to click 'Colorize' [1] , then you
can adjust the hue and the saturation [2]. I don't recommend to tweak the Lightness [3].
My taste here is for a dark Burnt Sienna . Save a Presets [read : chapter 9] if you need
to find the exact same color setting next time.
14. Remove the white
In order to keep just our lines, we need to remove the white background. But our image
is flat. A good filter to handle this is the Filter > Colors > Color to Alpha.
The default setting of this filter is to remove pure white, and the default threshold is
perfect for this task.
15. Manage layers
We deleted the white background in our drawing and now we will create it again. But this
time it will be on a separate layer under. For doing this, create a new layer, and put it just
under our line-art. Fill it with White ( select white color, then go to Edit > Fill with
foreground color ). Then rename the layers for making the project cleaner.
16. Save it
Just a little reminder : Save your artwork as *.kra .
17. Final line-art :
This is a low resolution of the cleaned line-art. If you want to get a look at the full
resolution, download it (link at the end of the tutorial).
Summary :
This method to remove blue-lines might look complicated and long because this tutorial
is detailed with many notes and photos. But once you master it, it's a 3 min job. And you
can repeat it easily across a pack of ten page of web-comics in less than 30min. The
main infos to remember:
1. Color adjustement curves and make Blue by flatting Red and Green channels (
2 click with a preset )
2. Desaturate Max (2 click with or without a preset)
Other part are just too easy in a workflow and make sens by themself (crop, contrast,
remove alpha). From all the method I read (often about Gimp or Photoshop ) this is the
fastest one for me, with the best results and centered around a single software, Krita.
That's why I use it in production.
Conclusion :
Now our file is ready to receive a paint layer between our Bakground layer and our
Lines.
Also, I have a method to color my artworks, but this will be for a next tutorial !
(coming after Pepper&Carrot ep3)
Source ﬁles :
* Raw scanner (PNG, 300dpi, Xsane)
* End *.kra files ready to color (Krita 2.8.5, *.kra)
Download here : http://sta.sh/019n962job53e (11MB)
Links :
I recommend also you to read the exellent article : Removing blue lines from a drawing:
The rise of the colour channels. with Gimp and Krita by Wolthera van Hövell tot
Westerflier.
License:
CC BY
David Revoy, www.davidrevoy.com, 22 august 2014.
Unless otherwise mentioned in the article.
Tags: #tutorial #traditional #krita
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RamonMiranda 22 august 2014, 20:15 - Reply
clap, clap, clap. Man i love your articles. Ellegance, easy to follow and
well explained. chapeau
Arn Sweatman 22 august 2014, 21:56 - Reply
I've been following your amazing work for some time. And I believe you're
getting EVEN BETTER!
Dandy 23 august 2014, 02:43 - Reply
Very nice! I've been meaning to do more sketching on paper lately, and
this is a good encouragement.
I would like to download the source files to have a closer look (and
perhaps have a try at painting with the finished lines, they look a lot of fun
to work with) but it doesn't work for me. Is there somewhere else you
could also upload them?
Thanks! :)
Raghavendra Kamath 23 august 2014, 07:39 - Reply
Thank you very much for this tutorial David,
i just switched to krita and was wondering how to lineart seperation.
thank you very much
Andrew 27 august 2014, 11:14 - Reply
hi,
nice tutorial! thank you!
Are you using Xubuntu regularly now? I remember that your os of choice
was ubuntu gnome. :-)
Adrienn Ecsedi 28 august 2014, 06:25 - Reply
It was good to see your process. I like that you talk about even the
smaller steps. Krita sadly is not running smoothly on my laptop, but I will
give it an other go once I will have a new computer. I like the way I can
paint with it.
I will try out the morning sketch routine you mentioned, it sounds good. :)
Zubr 29 august 2014, 09:05 - Reply
Now David Revoy with xubuntu and xfce?
David REVOY Author, 29 august 2014, 11:53 - Reply
@RamonMiranda : Thanks Ramon !
@Arn Sweatman : Oh good ! I'm working hard sketching every morning to
still work on my skill. It's a long long work. I'm happy result start to be
noticable. :-) thanks !
@Dandy : Source files are hosted on deviantArt Stash service ; it's
usually a mainstream platform , does your country has restriction with
deviantArt ? Sorry, sources files are big and I don't own a lot of room on
my www.davidrevoy.com server to host them here.
@Raghavendra Kamath : Your welcome
@Andrew & @Zubr : True , Xubuntu since June 2014. UbuntuGnome
14.04 was a disaster for my use, because they ship a frankensteinish
GNOME 3.10 with configpanel of 3.8 ; a big regression. And running the
ppa for updating to 3.12 was really really unstable... I might be back to
GNOME ; but it will be on Fedora or Manjaro. Xfce let me really fine
tuning the desktop to my liking ; but I also need to do a lot of scripts to
load advanced features manually ( xsetwacom , dispcal , dispcalGUI ,
wmctrl , etc... ). Not for beginner users :-)
@Adrienn Ecsedi : Ha, true Krita low CPU can be slow. Morning sketch
routine is really a happy routine. Prepare to be invaded by drawings ! ( but
it feels good to have a desk with a lot of drawing ). When I don't know
what to draw ; I simply redraw something I already drew before, and try to
improve pause, view angle, expression. Good luck!
David Revoy Author, 15 february 2019, 15:33 - Reply
Update 2019: I lost the morning routine of drawing sketches
:-/ I adapted the article introduction a bit so the article
doesn't pretends I'm doing something I couldn't maintain in
the years.
David, write please install notes for xfce. Do you can install gnome-
settings in xubuntu and use GUI for your wacom?
@Zubr : Oh, I already wrote them should be easy to translate them to an
online document. ( I take my notes while installing my main workstation to
boost my laptop install and also media center, and few PC around I admin
)
No, I can't use Gnome-setting in XFCE ; the method might work while
GNOME is 3.8 ( the one Unity, Mint and Ubuntu GNOME use ) but it will
broke as soon as it will update to 3.10. This is because ; in my opinion ;
GNOME team broke a UNIX rules somehow ; the one of modularity. In
order to display full screen this beautifull widget to configure Wacom on
Gnome 3.10 and after ; now Gnome settings require also the Compositor
of GNOME ( I think Mutter ).
Here I use a plain *.sh script loaded at startup to load my wacom. It's
based on xsetwacom command-lines and works good, because even if it
's more a pain in the ass to setup , it's has definitely more option than any
GUI.
For color calibration, I use DispcalGUI a GUI for the dispcal cool module
of the huge ArgyllCMS software. This also was a pain to learn. But now,
I'm really 'desktop' independent.
14.04 is still a good base for package and hardware support ; and I feel
the care in the update and support to make a long term support Linux.
Xfce also don't change a lot ( other tweak , I use Nemo filemanager in
Xfce ). The result is really really stable.
I would probably need to make "xsetwacom for cats" and "color-
calibration with dispcalGUI for cats" before doing my release notes ; it's a
big work. With my freelance clients, Pepper&Carrot and Gooseberry art-
direction, I'm already completely mad about my schedule. I'll try to
manage something.
@DavidRevoy
And what about last version of cinnamon?
@Zubr : I tested during two days in mid august 2014 ; on Antergos ( Arch
based ) so Cinnamon was really last package stable available vanilla. The
last release posted on Segfault blog. I concluded I didn't like it for the
reason Mint team forked the Wacom control center 3.8 , with all the bug
and design issue about it ( can't assign a Shift or Ctrl or Super modifier to
a button or stylus button, and problems with managing multi-monitors
calibrations. ) . I waited years to see that being fixed in GNOME 3.10 /
3.12 ; so it's a bit a 'meh' problem to see this old problematic GUI back on
the table and for Cinnamon own desktop environment , and for Unity too
fork of Gnome Control Center.
Also, Cinnamon is not really flexible ( sure, more than GNOME ) and I
found a lot of little details to be really workaround and features missing (
weird way to handle theme splitted between desktop and cinnamon ;
problems with maintaining community themes , link broken ). I also saw
the compositor or window manager to affect performance of digital
painting ; just a little feeling to be 'off' while this similar issue was fixed in
GNOME 3.10. So, I think Mint inherit from a lot of bad thing from the 3.8
GNOME period , and I'm not sure if they have the internal man power to
fix it. They also don't really have an audience caring about gfx
performance, color management, multi monitor and graphic tablet. So, not
a lot of tester + dev team forking = risky , very risky to follow , in my
opinion. Same for Unity.
I bug reported, to let hope the main issue will be fixed for a future use.
XFCE is a temporary solution. I made myself more like a DIY desktop, but
I'm pleased with it , because it's stable, works, has good performance and
got access to a pool of package interresting and easy to grab ( 14.04 ). I
like the work done on GNOME ; and I'll probably switch to Fedora ,
because GNOME sounds problematic for a lot of distribution/respin to
make it right ; Fedora is really starting to become GNOME OS, and that's
not bad in a way.
@Zubr : Note about Cinnamon : I loved the 4 corner windows placement (
à la KDE ) and the option to put a permanent windows placed ( with
Ctrl+Grab on a corner, if I remind well ) on a side of a screen. This is
really cool windows management option. I had to add this to the previous
post :)
I'm very like ubuntu and very like xfce. But i'm did not like
xsetwacomsettings in console and wacom setting in gnome control center
3.12 is the best!
@Zubr : I *totally* agree. I love the Gnome-Control-Center ; and for
Wacom, and for Color-management. It took me 4h to RTFM of Argyll and
DispcalGUI and 2h to do various test to just get an idea of what setting I
should enter and test variations of them.... while in Gnome, I color-
calibrated my both screen in a brainless 20min ... ... Same for xsetwacom.
That's why I doubt a 'xsetwacom for cats' is the right way. In a way , I
prefer keep my workaroundish-xfce-buntu install for now and jump next
Fedora and make a clean "Fedora install for digital painters" with Gnome
3.14. It can be better for community than showing again thousand of
terminal lines of codes and workaround :-)
Thanks, I actually managed to download the file after a few days. I don't
know why the problem happened.
As for desktop setups, I've recently been trying to go very minimal on my
low-powered laptop, in an attempt to get more performance out of Krita
(despite the laptop being below the recommended system specifications,
it works OK), and I ended up using Openbox with just a few additions. I
discovered that I can be lazy about tablet configuration because Krita
handles it well enough on its own, although I don't get into colour
management at the moment. How much extra use do you get from the
more carefully configured approach?
@Dandy : Oh good for the file. This stash hosting file on my premium
deviantArt account is really convenient for upload/download my source
at the moment, and I was affraid to need to change service.
Openbox is a good choice, with really good performance and a lot of
possibilities of customisation to setup the desktop in depht, and
something I really like about it : even pixel-art precision desktop ( thin
windows bar, sharp font, etc...). With wmctrl and script here and there (
community Manjaro open-box, or Archbang, or Crunchbang are famous
to make top-notch Openbox cool scripts for windows placement, conky
desktop decoration and other cool things with menu bars ).
Here, my extra configuration includes :
1. a wmctrl script to resize a windows on the fly to a bit less than 1/3 rd
of the screen, and toggle to 2/3 ; I usually resize this way speedly
references on side of the screen and keep 2/3 room for Krita to paint.
It's a script I use mainly on laptop, on desktop workstation I added
another screen.
2. my screen calibration are calibrated with dispcalGUI and the
pantoneHuey colorimeter ; in a nutshell, I setup colors to be 6500K and
Gamma 2.2. I played during a period to make the luminosity also
constrain to 120 or 150 cd/m² ; but I saw my monitors were better using
there native default luminosity/contrast setting ; so , they don't match
about luminosity but match for the color temperature.
3. Xsetwacom ; I like to get ctrl or shift on the buttons, also / key ( it
switch to previous preset used in Krita , and toggle to last used after,
really time saving ) I also use the shortcut , comma for a color-selector.
4. A script to take screenshot with a crosshair on desktop, and save
them on picture folder with YYYY-MM-DD_screenshot_HHMMSS.png
name pattern.
And a propos xsetwacom, here are my scripts ; they are *really* simple
and short, and manage keeping ratio between my screen and my tablet,
and configuring extra button or mapping tablet to the monitor I want.
xsetwacom scripts for my Intuos 3 L :
==============================
#! /bin/bash
# INTUOS 3 Large
# max area : 0 0 60960 45720
xsetwacom set "Wacom Intuos3 9x12 pad" Button 1 "key KP_Divide"
xsetwacom set "Wacom Intuos3 9x12 pad" Button 2 "key Shift_L"
xsetwacom set "Wacom Intuos3 9x12 pad" Button 3 "key Control_L"
Ah, of course, the buttons on the tablet! For whatever reason I don't
usually find those to be in a convenient position, so I tend to forget they're
there. The screen ratio is also a good point -- I'm probably causing trouble
with my drawing by having a mismatch between my tablet and the screen.
I'll have a go at setting mine up more properly, it doesn't look like it should
be too difficult.
David, your wacom intuos 4 m is without led?
@Dandy : oh yes, a mismatch of ratio can affect drawing skill (eg. you
draw a perfect circle on tablet, and an ellipse appear on screen. ) Having
ratio matching is highly recommended :-)
@Zubr : The tablet has, and I was one of the first to get them to work on
Linux even back in 2011 ; ( http://www.davidrevoy.com/article70/set-the-
led-display-of-the-wacom-intuos4-tablet-on-ubuntu-linuxmint ) . Nowaday,
I don't really mind to see them turn-off ; but I love the way GNOME after
3.10 handle this automagically with cool labels. Another cool thing
Ubuntu-Unity and Cinnamon-Mint ( and Elementary-Pantheon ) will never
know because they lasy-forked an old 3.8 version and I guess they'll can't
update to the 3.10 or 3.12 without breaking things on their side ; so they
are in a bad situation about this. But , in my opinion the wacom audience
is so little that having something semi-functionnal is OK for the dev teams
:-/
Leonardo 31 august 2014, 15:13 - Reply
Hi :)
I fell so much in love with just this simple sketch that I tried to make a
wallpaper out of it! Hope you like it :)
http://leojava.altervista.org/wordpress/nuovo-wallpaper/
@Leonardo : wow, that's a lot of colors :-) thank you for sharing the link, I
like to see creative derivation from my artworks. And thank you for linking
my sketch!
Tharinda Divakara 06 september 2014, 02:33 - Reply
Wow! It's very useful article. I tried to take my paper line work from my
digital camera instead of using a scanner, but it has low DPI (72 Dots per
inch). I think we need at least 300Dpi to create good painting.
It's glad to see another tutorial. Have a nice day!
David REVOY Author, 06 september 2014, 11:10 - Reply
@Tharinda Divakara :Thanks ! ha yes, digital camera produce too much
noise to do clean result for artworks. By the way, my scanner is dying
here ( a lot of band noise start to appear on my scan ) I have to replace it
soon. It will be hard to find a cheap one with good performances and
compatible plug&play with XSane.
Aurélien 08 september 2014, 14:09 - Reply
Thanks a lot for these detailed explanations!
I am curious about one thing though: why do you say in step 11 that you
don't want black pixels?
@Aurélien : Hi Aurelien ! ;-)
There is often a large visual gap between 0% black pixels and 1% dark-
dark-grey. It really makes the pure black pixels appear sometime to be
outside the picture. Just a personal feeling. So, I prefer to keep my dark
shade away from pure blacks when I start an artwork. It's easier to
contrast later if I need to get rich black back.
Interesting. I think I hit a similar issue while drawing for my game but
since I mostly draw with flat shapes I ended up using darker versions of
the shape color for the outlines. It's unfortunately a bit more painful to
draw that way with Inkscape, I'll try dark-grey outlines next time :)
@Aurélien : oh, btw congratz for your game visual ; I follow the
screenshot on G+ ; and you really improved a lot !
Thanks! Coming from you, it means a lot to me!
Eswri 04 january 2015, 23:10 - Reply
Good article, thanks !
Tanjung 07 january 2015, 14:15 - Reply
Thank you for the tutorial! It can be hard finding good Krita tutorials as
good as yours.
Also, have you ever tried MyPaint for digital painting? It's also a free
software that runs in Xubuntu. Krita has better features in my opinion, but
I like MyPaint's unlimited canvas feature. Would really appreciate it if you
could somehow make a tutorial using MyPaint! If not, I'm happy enough to
keep stalking your Krita tutorials ;-)
David REVOY Author, 07 january 2015, 14:31 - Reply
@Tanjung : hey thanks ;-)
For Mypaint feel free to check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyPaint 'Media
attention' or also the about box of the software ;-) I had a quite long love
affair with Mypaint.
You can find ressources on my blog ; type 'mypaint' in the search box ,
and you'll get article, brushes, video :)
Nowaday, the project is a bit sleepy and I prefer invest my time on Krita ,
also the GTK3 version of Mypaint UI removed a bit of the fun for me and
broke features of the software. I guess on Xubuntu they still package the
1.1 version so it's fine.
Kasha Norman 11 january 2015, 11:10 - Reply
Thanks for the tutorial !
Apropos of Nothing 25 february 2015, 14:39 - Reply
This is one of the best tutorials I've come across to date. Thank you for
sharing your process!
Jannatul Shumi 14 march 2015, 07:49 - Reply
I have a great fascination for sketching artwork! Oh now my duty is to
follow your tutorial to make such sketch!
enamul hoq 08 april 2015, 23:13 - Reply
wonderful tutorial, thank you for sharing with us .keep it up
Nahidul Ehsan 16 june 2015, 16:01 - Reply
This is really great work. I have seen very few creative tutorial like this
one. Thanks for sharing the tutorial.
Mimosa 06 july 2015, 21:52 - Reply
Dear David!
It is incredible how generous you are. Thank you for sharing your
knowledge, you inspire me!
You're awesome
Lorena 31 july 2015, 04:44 - Reply
Hey, what if I use nankin instead of pencil? It could be a problem?
David REVOY Author, 31 july 2015, 09:25 - Reply
@Lorena : I'm not familiar with Nankin ; from a speed search it looks to be
a black pen. No problem for black pen ; cleaning is even easier with the
contrast than pencil.
SAM 24 august 2015, 09:37 - Reply
Wow! This was simply amazing. Thank you for sharing your positive
feedback with us!
Tents for sale 08 september 2015, 08:23 - Reply
Amazing tutorial. thanks a lot for sharing
Rakhibul 15 september 2015, 12:26 - Reply
Great Tutorial! I'm sure you understand, sometimes you get into a rut
where nothing works and everything looks awful.
This design was fantastic and opened my eyes to trying something
different and unique.
The techniques you described were simple to implement but extremely
effective and creative. Great job! I really loved it!!
Md Razaul Karim 17 october 2015, 20:26 - Reply
Your work is really awesome. Your method is easy to me and I follow this.
Thanks for sharing.....................
Mishkat Islam 23 october 2015, 15:50 - Reply
Really you have done a good job. I am impressed , I will follow your
tutorial. Thanks for sharing
robert 01 november 2015, 15:24 - Reply
Great Tutorial! I'm sure you understand, sometimes you get into a rut
where nothing works and everything looks awful.
Great job! I really loved it!!
Salim Ahmed 05 december 2015, 19:08 - Reply
Really your tutorial help be success to related this work. Thanks for
sharing a brilliant post. g
Alex 18 december 2015, 15:35 - Reply
Where do I get this pencil? I've looked online and I can't seem to find a
.5mm B anywhere. Although I can find HB.
David REVOY Author, 18 december 2015, 18:51 - Reply
@Alex : Hi, I just checked on my desk ;
The mechanical pen I use Stabilo technic 0.5 :
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/416lukIQpWL.jpg
( I put fabric-black-tape on it to improve the comfort )
The mechanical lead box I have got this on label ( french ) :
"STABILO mines B
0.5 60 mm x 12 pces"
I tried to google for them, and I didn't found them.
Probably something I bought to my local art store long time ago.
You can fallback on 'Staedler Mars micro carbon', I think it might even be
better quality than Stabilo :
http://ecx.images-
amazon.com/images/I/31rd3MKq2DL._AC_UL160_SR160,160_.jpg
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my request is always to please share us a lot more post in future. Keep
writing
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plz keep posting like that.
Thank You.
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king korim 09 january 2016, 18:25 - Reply
Really great job and wonderful post ,, thanks for sharing with us !!!
Jesica Wilson 23 january 2016, 16:37 - Reply
I read your tutorial. This is absolutely mind blowing. Keep writing....please.
Taposy Rabeya 06 february 2016, 11:18 - Reply
Great sequence of art work. Very helpful. I like it. Thanks a lot.
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Valves & Flanges Manufacturer 13 april 2016, 12:23 - Reply
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artfulbutterly 01 may 2016, 23:27 - Reply
This is so amazing. Im still overwhelmed by all the info here, being a
novice at digital painting sometimes instruction flies high above my head
=P ... im just so thankful for people like you , who are willing to share their
knowledge in such a generous manner. You have a fan for life!
David REVOY Author, 02 may 2016, 07:56 - Reply
@artfulbutterly : A big thank you !
Rustam Ali 05 may 2016, 15:31 - Reply
What a great sketch that is. its really very good.
tanzir tanz 21 may 2016, 23:11 - Reply
You are very skilled CG designer. I like your all post in the blog. You make
me interested about Krita and cartoons. I admire your work. Thanks again
for the article.
habib 16 july 2016, 03:48 - Reply
Thanks yet again for the tips. You guys are awesome
27 ‫زﺑرا‬ ‫ﭘرده‬ august 2016, 15:00 - Reply
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and I am waiting for your further write ups thank you once again.
08 ‫ﺟداره‬ ‫دو‬ ‫ﺑرﻗﯽ.ﭘﺎرﺗﯾﺷن‬ ‫ﮐرﮐره‬ december 2016, 10:18 - Reply
i like ur draw but i think u must be go to drawing soreal charachter.ur
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Thank you very much. Great information. Best regards…
19 ‫ﭘﺎرﺗﯾﺷن‬ december 2016, 10:51 - Reply
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Agiaht 18 march 2017, 01:51 - Reply
Thanks, I was wondering how to let the white space transparent ^.^
Sohana Jesy 05 april 2017, 14:06 - Reply
your cleaning-blue-lines-sketch-in-kritapost is really awesome and more
effective. i have got more informative idea. thank you so much for this
best idea
Steph 22 june 2017, 07:30 - Reply
I am sooo glad I found this tutorial! I had been looking all over for a
tutorial on making the lineart transparent using Krita. This was perfect.
Thank you so much!
Lily Portius Yáñez 14 september 2017, 16:14 - Reply
Muchas gracias por este tutorial, era lo que buscaba y necesitaba.
Your welcome!
Lakhan 19 november 2017, 02:28 - Reply
Hi David,
Nice works, i'm a newbie at Krita, but liked what i got working into, also
saw a few youtube collection by you. I'm using Peppermint 8, works fine,
nemo and xfce interface are good and tweaked a lot (although have all
the latest versions of Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Knoppix as well as Puppy and
Lubuntu and Kubuntu, tried and went back to Pep8 :-)). Earlier i used
Fedora in late 2009, later it was all windows, its just recently i switched
back to Linux, although i don't like their package installation system and
updates are messy, mostly unstable and get my mouse and keyboard
stuck.
Well I'm learning Krita at the moment, and like your tutorials. Find a bit
complex in the begining, but was similar with PS too as a beginner.
Thanks for the great works. Keep Sharing
David REVOY Author, 19 november 2017, 18:54 - Reply
Thanks for the feedback Lakhan!
Xfce is a very good choice of D.E. for digital painting ; good
performance of openGL for windowed apps, with minimal
latency ( open-box, awesomeDE, i3 too ).
Mobile 22 january 2018, 09:46 - Reply
A very useful piece of information. thanks
Jase 24 july 2018, 06:19 - Reply
I can't afford Photoshop, so after watching several reviews on Youtube
about Krita, I decided to give it a try. My only problem was that I couldn't
figure out how to separate my lineart from the white background of my
scan. After searching for hours on the Web for a tutorial, I finally stumbled
upon yours. Words cannot express how thankful I am for your tutorial,
because I was at my wit's end trying to figure the process out on my own.
Thank you very much! Be well.
By the way, your artwork rocks!
David REVOY Author, 24 july 2018, 13:09 - Reply
Ha, thank you very much Jase for the feedback!
Have fun coloring your linearts ;)
Aki 11 december 2018, 15:19 - Reply
Thank you so much for a very detailed tutorial! I hope you don't mind me
asking, if I don't use blue pencil lead or I use black pen to ink and erase
all the pencil sketch, how do I change the color adjustment curves in step
9? Should I flatten all three of them or let them be? And then what should
I do in step 10? Sorry if my question sounds ignorance, I'm new to digital
art and still have so much to learn.
David REVOY Author, 11 december 2018, 20:39 - Reply
Hi Aki and thank you for the feedback!
Good luck starting the journey of digital art.
Blue is a better color because of a couple of factor:
1. A lot of scanner have difficulties to catch bright blue
(even if with time this argument is less and less a good one,
the optic of scanner is better and better)
2. with an artwork scanned with the three channel RGB;
you have 'blue' in the three to do the curve.
3. Blue lids, or blue pencil for sketching is a bit standard; so
it is easier buy 'ready made' solution.
That being said; it is totally possible to use Red or Green (I
tested red, it leaves a bit of grey ; and green works better)
To adapt the tutorial ; you just need to adapt the curve (eg.
pick the red, not the blue)
For the inking; yes, it will work better with markers, ink, or
any very dark pen.
Good luck !
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