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Published: 2009-08-13 03:48:47 +0000 UTC; Views: 1365; Favourites: 38; Downloads: 0
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Drawn on my breaks at work for the past couple of weeks. XDThe scan really messes up the detail on this--if anyone can recommend a good tutorial of how to get a clean scan of lineart, please let me know.
Thanks for the scanning tips, everyone! I rescanned and think this looks much better.
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WOW love the details on the background! 'Tis awesome!
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Ohh, this is soo good! I'm always trying to figure out what to put on his shelves whenever I draw his office/room/classroom...this is sooo cool to be able to see and so detailed SQUEE
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Thanks! And to think, I used to be background-avoidant.
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Me too! I had been lazy for so long
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Very nice! He is quite a good looking wizard, I would have a hard time paying attention in his class as he is sexy!
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Thanks! I would too, though I suspect we'd get a pretty harsh punishment for not paying attention. ;D
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Wonderful background details. Love his expression.
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Thank you! I'm glad you liked it.
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I really like the detail. I didn't see it before you rescanned it, but this looks great to me!
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Thanks! The previous version was much more muddled than this scan, so I'm glad most people have only seen this version. XD
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So much detail to this picture, and so much interest in the details.
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There was a time when I never used to do backgrounds at all. Now I put maybe too much effort into the bg details. XD Thanks for looking!
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Fantastic detail, great picture.
Will be rec'd Sunday evening on the HGSS Digest [link]
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Thank you! I appreciate it.
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Nice picture, anyway.
Scan at a high resolution, as Dronarron says - and scan in full colour, not greyscale or lineart. You can convert it to greyscale in a graphics package once you've made the scan.
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Thanks! I rescanned it using your tips and I think it looks much better now.
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You need to scan at quite a high dpi, at least 300 and probably better 600, to get good rendering of tiny details. It also helps if you don't have the scanner software try to do any correction like contrast or descreening (especially in something with crosshatching like this; "descreen" tries to remove pattern artifacts such as those you get if you scan a photo from a magazine or newspaper, which is printed with zillions of overlapping dots, and might harm the hatching details). Then you need to save it as something lossless to preserve them -- .psd is always an option if you're using Photoshop, or you can do a .tif/.tiff. (This file will be quite huge!) Once you convert to .jpg, you're losing detail, even if you do it at minimum compression/max filesize, so what's here on dA is never going to look as good as your original. Resizing the image to be smaller also loses detail because the program/algorithm has to decide to throw away some pixels to be able to make the overall size smaller, which necessarily means loss of detail.
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Thanks! I appreciate the in-depth comment. I've never been all that great at scanning, so this is awesome.
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It also helps if you don't have the scanner software try to do any correction like contrast or descreening
Sorry, didn't finish the thought here, which was to say: do corrections like contrast/levels after the scan, in your image editing software, which tends to be smarter or give more fine control than the software that comes with consumer scanners.
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