CLARIFICATIONS 🧋1. DPI ONLY HAS TO DO WITH PRINTING, CANVAS SIZE is what will make the difference My mistake, it is more important to look at the canvas size. I was misinformed when I created a canvas at a smaller dpi and thought it affected the pixelization, when it was the canvas size that was making a difference. (900 by 900 vs 3000 x 3000) Thanks to those in the comments who informed of such (some of you nice others not so much 🥲😆 ). 2. IT IS BETTER to have LESS STROKES in the first place, than a ton of undo/ redo. When I was learning how to make "perfect" line art, technically impossible as humans, it was actually for a very specific manga type style on an ipad for commissions. Any line that looked out of place and resized would be pixelated therefore I would keep redoing it til it fit, and developed this technique. This will work for art that require this amount of cleaness, like a coloring book. As a habit many artists should practice having clean, confident lines in the first place so we don't edit a ton. Thats why many of us, including me today, don't even have a lineart layer. So as a traditional exercise you can even practice drawing with intentional lines from your arm in pen a lot so you have to live with your mistakes :> (like me HAHA). 3. the Tips in here apply even to traditional art and other softwares Such as clear, lower opacity sketch, (use putty eraser more) drawing from the arm, and reducing friction work in most digital art softwares, you DON'T need procreate. Also the above clarifications doesn't mean the rest of the techniques are wrong. These techniques still genuinely helped me to get better at line art, soemthing that was a weak point of my mine since my art is usually on the messy side. I'm really happy that it's helped many of you! TLDR just read points. :> Thanks for the love and see you in the next artventure!💛💛💛
Tip to save you from future wrist pain: train to hold your pen differently. If you hold it in the classical posture gripping it more with the tips of your fingers (between thumb tip and pointer finger/middle finger), you can draw small details by moving your fingers instead of your wrist. Some schools don’t teach pen postures and then people end up suffering their whole lives due to never having learned more efficient and gentle ways of holding pens, so I thought I’d share this technique in case someone finds it helpful. ❤
Thanks for the tip! :> I have to work on this grip, sometimes I still feel the pain but in a different part of my arm, hopefully I can master this grip later on 😅
Tho there are new studies that show that no matter if the grip is (unless it’s a baby fist grip) works. Be it tripod quadropod And so on. The schools forcing to specific grip are bit out of date, The most important part is that, the pen needs support, it needs to be stable, and the grip should not bring in cramps after few mins of work.
Huh, that’s pretty interesting. Turns out that I’ve been doing that subconsciously😂😂tho I mostly changed my pen posture as I was afraid of getting carpel tunnel syndrome.
@@artsytsaa Also I have a question, does screen protector matter? In the video you mentioned that less friction is good, so I was wondering if normal screen protector would work better or would paper like screen protector would work better?
@@imrankabu with normal and paper like people just use what they most comfortable with for example some like the feel of paper so they go with paper and some like the gloss friction less glass
5:23 I was studying Akihito Yoshitomi, a great mangaka who posts his process on youtube, and he doesn’t go at a medium pace. For long strokes, he goes slow with more pressure to kinda feel out the direction of the stroke. Then he really quickly, precisely finishes the stroke. In his videos the sound of the pen is very apparent, and there’s a specific combo of sounds that I’ve found is the ultimate lineart trick. It goes sccccrrrrrh-SHIUSH. (Bear with me here, it’s hard to replicate sounds in text lol. Watch one of his videos and you’ll hopefully get it) So yeah! I think it’s good practice to draw the lines as fast and energetic as you can without sacrificing precision. You can do line excercises too, enabling you to draw faster lines more precisely.
Interestingly, I feel like I can hear what you mean 😆 though digital and traditional can also have different techniques with the medium pace being the good one for brushes with streamline. When I watched his work, I considered many of his strokes to be medium pace, but I get what you mean about fast and precise lines. Either way, practice is a sure fire way to precision 👍
@@PbZeppeli I used to be a grammar police too, but honestly it’s just gonna lead to people thinking you’re annoying. And you know what, the internet is a very casual place, as long as you can understand what they meant, who cares? (I’m not trying to be rude, I’m sorry. I don’t know why I always seem mean through writing/text)
Saved 😂 just what I keep doing... watch later, watch later, watch later, no improvement, but I thought I watched those videos? No I didn't. I need to stop saving for later and actually watching.
The day i realised that line art =/= tracing literally changed my life. I’ve stopped trying to trace any of my work, and sometimes, my line art looks as messy as my sketch, but it just looks so, much better.
Just dropped by to say that I am absolutely infuriated with myself. I spent y e a r s wondering why when it came time to draw line art, it came out awful. Turns out putting effort into sketches is beneficial lollll Seriosuly thank you! It feels like I just whipped through a years worth of practice, all because I took time to actually put love into my sketches instead of trying to scribble out a vague outline of what I'd eventually want!
Cool tip for those using Clip Studio. You can make your lineart layer a vector. This treats every line like an object that lets you skew, thicken and thin, or even change the brush type of every line after the fact. On top of that, you can have it cleanly and automatically delete the ends of overshot lines.
I love ambient occlusion and hatching too (but not cross-hatching)! I get very inspired by the lineart of Even amundsen, Tb choi and Knight Zhang. BUT sometimes I also like even lineart, it gives almost a "cozy felling".
I've been recently following Mika Pikazo and LAM for inspiration for my lineart and creating my style. I love the slightly wobbly, broken like lines they use. Especially for when they draw the eyes, what most people would see as a mistake/imperfection they use to give the eyes more depth and body.
Sounds to me like 99% of the problems you listed have to do with muscle control, in which case we aren't perfect, so embrace the imperfection with your art. Strive to be better but always remember you can't be perfect. There was once a time when you would have thought that it was perfect and would have been ecstatic to be able to do it.
Thank you for explaining everything in difrent steps, I struggle with lineart rn and that makes me unmotivated. Thanks for taking the time to make this!
holding back from undo (+ long strokes!!) is such a golden tip, i started like 15 minutes ago from this video and my lineart is already way, WAY better now whattt lifeaving future-brightening w video frfr
THIS WAS A GAMECHANGER!! My lineart improved so much because of your suggestions and recommendations. Thank you so much for this video! Explained very well and very relatable 😅😂
I love this video whenever I get back into rendering and not only sketching I like to experiment with lineart! I am good at traditional linear like pen and paper but not with my tablet so this video is godsend hahah
Unironically one of the best videos I've ever seen it the art help space. I think my tablet has neither palm rejection nor smoothing, but the things you said will come in handy
I’m so glad it still helps you ☺️ many have commented that they can’t do the techniques since they have a different app, but a lot of the techniques even work traditionally 😅
You can definitely do it! 💪 In the beginning the transition may feel strange but the the right set up and practice will get your lines up to your traditional quality ☺️
I legitimately can’t thank you enough, I can’t believe just how effective these tips were in my lineart. I’ve be doing digital art since 9th grade (now senior in college) and I have never felt confident in how it would turn out, always avoided it and used my sketch instead for “final” pieces 😅 Genuinely feel so happy with how polished my art looks now, thank you so so much!! ❤️
Use hight resolution canvas. Make sure your sketch is correct enough before proceed to line art. Use minimum opacity of your sketch when working on line art. Use your elbow as pivot. Draw with shoulder. Use glove to reduce friction between hand and tablet. Draw with medium speed (too fast less accurate, too slow wobbly) Clean up: liquify - push or edge Still need to recorrect the line art : lower down the opacity and redraw in a new layer until satisfy.
I increased the streamline of the studio pen and voila! Already better! I like the idea of drawing from the elbow or shoulder, not the wrist. I wasn't aware of that one!
Thank you so much! I'm still a beginner artist(and don't really have many art tools)so I'm not the best at drawing just yet, but I will make sure to keep these things in mind the next time I do draw! I'm sure it will help me improve my lineart and art in general a lot!😁❤️❤️
i hope ur pillow is always cold and u never have crumbs in ur bed. these tips r literally life changing like ur an actual angel for giving them out for free. thank u SO much!! (T^T)
I started digital art only a couple of days ago and am currently watching a lot of tutorials on things I realise I have no idea how to do and so far this video has made the BIGGEST change. Even after watching other advice videos on inking/lineart I could not understand how to make it look good (or rather, why mine still looked the same even after trying to follow the advice) but your tips made such a huge difference that it looks like I've had months of practice to me! And I don't even use procreate, I draw in photoshop with a wacom (so things like rotating the canvas with your left hand didn't really apply to me) but most your advice still applied amazingly!
I’m glad that it works for you too! Lineart was actually one of my weaknesses, so I think it’s easier to explain how to finally get a good line to beginners 😅 Many have commented that they’re sad they don’t have procreate but it definitely works in any software, some of the principles even work traditionally! Wish you the best on the journey of digital art :>
That liquify tool is GENIUSES!!! I’ve never thought of doing that and will immediately be testing this out in my next piece. thank you so much great vid👍
Where was this tutorial before? Thank uuuu, u really explained it in a way that I could properly understand! (I didn’t know abt the edge liquify tool, so reallyyyyy thank u!)
Just subscribed! Thank you for this amazing tutorial! I’m new to digital art so now things that I can easily do on paper feel so complicated… all the layers, techniques, tools confuse me…Would really appreciate if you could make other videos for beginners explaining why and how to use specific tools/layers 😊
I’m so glad 😃 beginners are the exact type of people I’m trying to reach with my tutorials. I am working on a beginners series starting with procreate ( though can be applied on other softwares) so Thank you for subscribing and I hope you stay tuned ☺️
thank you, this video is so detailed and well organized!! i have a bad attention span so i was surprised when i actually finished the whole video without skipping. & im more of a traditional artist but these tips are fr so useful
OwO that’s such a big compliment! Thanks for watching it all! The main techniques are the same for traditional artists, just use your putty eraser very well but take a picture of your sketch b4 hand just in case 😅 line pressure can also be easier traditionally:>
Thank you for sharing. As an aspiring artist I've spent the past few months scouring YT for all kinds of information on various artistic concepts. Yours is such a good video, and you seem like a very kind person for posting this so us aspiring artists with dreams can actually learn something and start applying it in our practice sessions.
This is literally so nice, 🥹thank you very much and I’m glad people are vibing with my teaching style 🧋I’ve learned most of my art skills on yt and the internet so I’m paying it forward :>
Thank you! Im making the jump to digital soon and your videos are exactly what i was looking for. Most others seemed geared towards simplisitic cartoony or stark comic book style. Also your artwork reminds me a bit of Kinu Nishimura, who im a big fan of.
i was so surprised that you only have 4 videos when i checked your channel. I really love your art style and wish you would create more content on here
I didn't want to lower my resolution because I thought it would be worse and I hadn't found the measurements that fit what I was looking for and I noticed a difference right away by lowering the dpi and resolution, thank you!!! I still have things to learn, but with this guide it´s already a much better start than how I was doing xD!!! And I did´nt know about liquifying :000 nice
thank you so much !! also something that really helped me is to do your sketch, with a brush size very close to the size of your lineart brush. i used to do a super thick sketch and then switch out to a brush twenty time smaller and be really confused of what line to follow lol
I’m soon going to get a tablet! I’m so excited to start doing digital art and learning a long the way. I found your video really helpful, thank you 🙏✨✨❤️ I hope I’m the future I can open commissions and earn some money
This is the kind of knowledge I would legit pay for. Thank you so much I’ve been having a lot of trouble with my Lineart because of how used I am to working on paper. I greatly appreciate this you have no clue ❤️❤️
I just got an Ipad and I'm struggling to get used to procreate (I usually work in photoshop) thank you so much for these tips! Just from fixing the pressure curve I can tell I'll be a bit more comfortable with drawing on it. Great work and super useful video!
Wow this was super super informative and I loved the little quick tips like coloring the lines you want to go over later thats genius thank you so much. :)
Thank you! I saw a recent rip on ig, make your lineart a warm 50%ish gray and it’ll turn into a darker version of the colors under it! Glad this helped :>
Not really rules, but principles :> If you break them, as long as you know why you are breaking them and that you like the effect on your art. Just don’t do things that will jeopardize your long term health :>
I use my finger to draw and I use chicken scratch to make my lines look more interesting (I clean up the chicken scratch and connect the lines) it works for me