You’re going to want to start out with
well-cleaned-up line art. Messy line art is
much harder to work with. It doesn’t matter
if it’s in pencil or pen. It’s a
lot easier to get consistent results with pen,
though, so if you’re using pencil, try
to keep it pretty clean and pretty dark. I don’t
have any hints on how to do that (I certainly
haven’t mastered it myself, as you can
see to the right), but I do know that the more
time you spend practicing and the more care
you take cleaning up, the better your results
will be. If you don’t clean it up well
enough right now, you’ll be cleaning it
up later (we’ll get to that in a bit).
For the example, I’ve cleaned-up using
pencil on top of rough Sanford Col-Erase Blue.
There’s no need to put your clean lines
on a separate sheet from your roughs –
the blue pencil will come out completely in
Photoshop unless you make it too dark. That
step is outlined further down.
Col-Erase “Carmine Red” comes out
just as cleanly as the standard Blue that all
your Animator friends uses. Don't use Non-Photo
Blue, as it's garbage to draw with, and don’t
mix different colours of rough pencils on the
same drawing. That’s much harder to remove.
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