Scanning in Line Drawing Help!

[JayJee]

Hi guys, I need some help...

Lately i have been very intereseted in digital art, and even flash cartoons...but im so tired of mouse drawing all my images. I learned how to colour black and white drawings in photoshop, but i need to know what the best type of pencil to sketch with is before i ink, so the scanner doesnt pick it up. Ive seen it before, and it looks like a blue colour, any idea what the pencil is called?

[jester]

The pencils are so called non-repro or non-photo blue pencils. Sanford sells the in the US and you can obtain them from www.bluelinepro.com, for example. But beware, they feel a bit waxy and the ink sometimes doesn't hold on it. I've experiemented a bit with them but only you them very rarely.

Jester

[JayJee]

thanks for the response, ill check that out...just curious, how would you go about doing it, without using the bluepencil...just a light pencil then pen?

[jester]

How about using a rubber... ? ;)

Try this forum, if you don't know it already:

http://www.penciljack.com/forum/

Jester