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Description
I took an old pen and ink drawing from 2013 and updated it with some cleanup and digital tones. I got inspired from Kuvshinov Illya's toned piece. It took a bit of experimenting to figure out how he got the effects to look that way but I think I was able to replicate most of it.

Update: Since a lot of people have expressed interest, I'll be making a tutorial on getting the screen tone effect I used here.

Update 2: Here's the tutorial!
Screentone Tutorial
This is a fast and easy way to generate the screen tone look digitally. It took me a bit of experimenting to figure it out. Hopefully some of you will find this useful.

Start with the initial line art.

Add the background

Add a white layer for the clipping mask so I can easily do a paint over.

Shading!

I have the shading done on multiple layers, so in order for the next step to work I select all the shading layers, including the background, hide the line art layer, and choose the 'Copy Merged' option under 'Edit'. This allows me the get all the shading layers merged and copied.

Paste the new merged copy into a new window, change the Image type to Bitmap. If the option is grayed out, change it to gray scale f

Description
I took an old pen and ink drawing from 2013 and updated it with some cleanup and digital tones. I got inspired from Kuvshinov Illya's toned piece. It took a bit of experimenting to figure out how he got the effects to look that way but I think I was able to replicate most of it.

Update: Since a lot of people have expressed interest, I'll be making a tutorial on getting the screen tone effect I used here.

Update 2: Here's the tutorial!
Screentone Tutorial
This is a fast and easy way to generate the screen tone look digitally. It took me a bit of experimenting to figure it out. Hopefully some of you will find this useful.

Start with the initial line art.

Add the background

Add a white layer for the clipping mask so I can easily do a paint over.

Shading!

I have the shading done on multiple layers, so in order for the next step to work I select all the shading layers, including the background, hide the line art layer, and choose the 'Copy Merged' option under 'Edit'. This allows me the get all the shading layers merged and copied.

Paste the new merged copy into a new window, change the Image type to Bitmap. If the option is grayed out, change it to gray scale f