Draw the Outline

[laputaoscar]

1.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v467/Ahmult/GSD__Falling_Star__by_maeander.png
2.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v467/Ahmult/Atsuya__art_trade__by_Mayuiki.png


Do anyone know how to create the outline of these 2 kinds of picture in PS? I tried to work with Wacom but it doesnt look good and it is pretty difficult to control the pressure and the shape of outline

I tried something like that (the following graphic). I always want to draw a line like 2nd and 4th one. But the result is always 1st and 3rd. Any suggestion? Should I alwasy use pen tool to control the path rather than using wacom by my hand?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v467/Ahmult/ScreenShot004.jpg

[Datameister]

You'll need a very steady hand and a not-too-subtle approach, which is hard for me. Mainly, it just takes a lot of practice. Anyone got any tips?

[Orcatraz]

you should check out -brokencow's line tutorial (http://www.walkthroughs.nu/index.php/Line_Art)-

[bumskee]

The second looks heaps like the lines done in flash, but above tutorial is an awsome link.

[Datameister]

Thanks for the link, orcatraz! Very helpful indeed.

[timpaatkins]

Illustrator dude, thats what you need..

[laputaoscar]

That tut is cool :)

[jrr]

sometimes when i need rediculiously clean lines like that i'll just use paths in photoshop and stroke the path and move it alittle and stroke it again,

[pkc3]

the last picture seems to bee done in illustrator, a good friend of mine are doing
cartoons, and the results are pretty much like the last one.

[Noë]

*feels stupid* :P
in the second picture from that tutorial the whole image went blue.
How can you do that? :P

hug
Noë

[Orcatraz]

Noë: I'm not sure if this is how brokencow did it in his tutorial, but I always just hit Ctrl + B and then bump up the blue and cyan.

[Noë]

thanks, lol :scribble:
why didn't I think of that?

EDIT;

so.. I've been trying this a little bit. Took a sketch that I made for a school assignment.
It didn't really work out great, but well I don't have a tablet or anything like that, just a mouse :lineart:
the sketch (http://pic16.picturetrail.com/VOL655/2419646/5277014/122315496.jpg)
lined (http://pic16.picturetrail.com/VOL655/2419646/5277014/122315513.jpg)