First finished drawing of the year. I'm getting more and more tired of messing with Photoshop to clean up pencil drawings ... I almost wonder if it would be easier just to go back to inking! Also aggravating is scribbling in all that black fur!
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I was using something like that once, but there is a subtle pattern repetition of texture that doesn't look good ... and is also tricky to fill space without leaving bits out. I eventually abandoned it. The best way is to select areas to spray to lighten, then spray to re-darken. It makes the best result, but takes re-tracing some of the art, and while it looks good, it takes even MORE time! For example: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/28122971/
On sketches without the scribbly filling ,a high-pass filter works wonders.
In Photoshop it's Filter > Other > High-pass. For lineart you want a setting around 50-100 pixels. This gives you a mostly-grey image with lines in relatively consistent contrast.
With the Levels tool (Image > Adjustments > Levels) you can drag the white slider down to below 128, until all the paper flecks and sketchy lines are completely blown out. Drag the gamma slider to around 0.3 and the result should be clear and sharp.
Now, downsides: hatching and other busy areas are dimmed by the filter. In the Wahini image that means the flower lei is too light. Multiple copies of the filtered layer can have their levels adjusted with different white/gamma settings, and a fuzzy brush easily erases too-light areas. It's not the same as inking, but it's cleaner than a straight scan.
Also. here's a texture based on your hatching in this image: https://imgur.com/a/xWw6gFg
In Photoshop it's Filter > Other > High-pass. For lineart you want a setting around 50-100 pixels. This gives you a mostly-grey image with lines in relatively consistent contrast.
With the Levels tool (Image > Adjustments > Levels) you can drag the white slider down to below 128, until all the paper flecks and sketchy lines are completely blown out. Drag the gamma slider to around 0.3 and the result should be clear and sharp.
Now, downsides: hatching and other busy areas are dimmed by the filter. In the Wahini image that means the flower lei is too light. Multiple copies of the filtered layer can have their levels adjusted with different white/gamma settings, and a fuzzy brush easily erases too-light areas. It's not the same as inking, but it's cleaner than a straight scan.
Also. here's a texture based on your hatching in this image: https://imgur.com/a/xWw6gFg
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