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How can I touch up my pencil drawings?

 

How can I touch up my pencil drawings?, Making an XNA game.

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16 Jun, 2009 - 07:46 AM
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Hi, I'm making a game in XNA and I have various sketches of levels, items, etc. and I'd like to touch to them up, give them color, erase dodgy lines, etc. I just want the images to look crisp and "finished".

What could I use to do this?

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16 Jun, 2009 - 08:24 AM
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A scanner and one of these babies!
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16 Jun, 2009 - 09:12 AM
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Though you certainly don't need the $700+ versions. I borrowed a friend's cheaper one and it worked fine for me. Here are some other products. My friend had something similar to the Bamboo Fun, though I can't seem to find the exact model he had.

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16 Jun, 2009 - 09:54 AM
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I would recommend the Bamboo from wacom. Cheap, efficient, and I love the bastard. I even started using the pen as a mouse after a while.

amazon bamboo
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16 Jun, 2009 - 10:04 AM
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You guys misunderstood my question. I don't really want to buy anything to help me. I just want to use a regular mouse+keyboard. What software should I use?
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16 Jun, 2009 - 10:29 AM
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Gimp or Photoshop would work fine.
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16 Jun, 2009 - 10:43 AM
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Any tutorials you know of? I looked but can't find any.
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16 Jun, 2009 - 12:33 PM
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QUOTE(papuccino1 @ 16 Jun, 2009 - 12:43 PM) *

Any tutorials you know of? I looked but can't find any.


I call liar! You didn't even google it. tongue.gif

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16 Jun, 2009 - 01:05 PM
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Seriously, I googled:

"pencil drawing digital touch up"
"photoshop drawing touch up"

etc.

Maybe it's because I'm in Bolivia and regional results are on automatically. Don't really know. tongue.gif

Please help!
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16 Jun, 2009 - 01:09 PM
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Try:
http://www.miraztutorials.com/tag/drawing/
http://www.pixel2life.com/
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16 Jun, 2009 - 01:17 PM
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QUOTE(papuccino1 @ 16 Jun, 2009 - 03:05 PM) *

Seriously, I googled:

"pencil drawing digital touch up"
"photoshop drawing touch up"

etc.

Maybe it's because I'm in Bolivia and regional results are on automatically. Don't really know. tongue.gif

Please help!


Ah I see.

google "gimp tutorial"
and "photoshop tutorial"
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16 Jun, 2009 - 02:16 PM
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Modi that doesn't really apply to what I need. That search is too broad.

@Beta, thanks for the links. I'll check them out.
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16 Jun, 2009 - 02:20 PM
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Another (quite expensive) solution would be using Adobe Illustrator, but that's for vector graphics (if you need those in the game).
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16 Jun, 2009 - 05:37 PM
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I haven't worked on sprites in a while. Scanning is a good start. GIMP is a great free tool for working on graphics. I've started using it with another program to start making tiles. Once you have your characters, tiles will be your next chore. If you thought sprites were hard, tiles are worse! laugh.gif There are programs that will help you out with that though.
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17 Jun, 2009 - 08:16 AM
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QUOTE(Core @ 16 Jun, 2009 - 04:20 PM) *

Another (quite expensive) solution would be using Adobe Illustrator, but that's for vector graphics (if you need those in the game).


Just throwing this out there - a good open source alternative to Illustrator is Ink Scape.
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