I've had a bit of interest in my post about how I'm now using Adobe Illustrator to convert my pencil roughs into line artwork for use as final artwork. Anyone interested in this method might like to give this a go. It does very much depend on how tight your roughs are. Most of you do quite loose sketches in which case this may not work for you but for cartoonists like me this method will save you weeks a year.
Above is my finished rough as sent to my Editor for approval. I delete all the layers so I'm left with just the pencil layer which I save as a tiff file.



Here's the traced file.
Here's the same file once the traced file has been expanded (Object - Expand) which gives you outlines you can play with. I prefer to do any changes once the file has been placed back into Photoshop though.
Here's that traced file placed back into my high resolution layered Photoshop file.
Here it is all colored up, again on a separate layer.
Play around and see if this can work for you. I can now 'ink' and color all 7 comics in one afternoon using this method. It just means I have to take a bit more care over my pencil roughs (which have always been quite tight as you can see). Good Luck!




1 comment:
It looks great - I wonder if any of your readers will even notice the switch.
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