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3 Responses to “I need to Learn how to do a proper lineart work for my drawings usng photoshop. Can anyone assist?”

1. misswibb
   July 18th, 2009 at 3:24 am

   This is the best I can offer….http://www.photoshop101.com/

   Believe me, I feel your pain! Hopefully there will be someone logging on here soon that can give you a step by step guided tour. In the meantime, hang in there and best of luck to you!

2. SotiCoto
   July 21st, 2009 at 2:18 am

   If you’re just after the lines… I could explain alternatives to you, but since I’m more of a Paint Shop Pro user than a Photoshop user (I do have both), it would be a matter of trying to interpret how to achieve the same functions yourself.

   If you’re actually asking about using the pen tool specifically, and not alternatives…… then I can only advise that you use straight lines where possible. I believe the Photoshop shortcut for this is the same as the PSP one: i.e. click somewhere, hold down shift and click somewhere else… and it will draw a straight line between the two. I find whenever doing just about any sort of art that its easier to work in straight lines…. give things straight edges by clicking from point to point… and then to shave bits off later to give a more rounded appearance. This is as opposed to freehand drawing, which I find invariably becomes squiggled the wrong way when using the mouse.

   Generally though, in most art these days…. I have a tendency not to bother with lines at all and to use the lasso tool to select regions (straight lines first, then refinement of the selection with the lasso) and then flood-fill them with the paint bucket. Its entirely possible that you could get from that sort of thing to straight lines before filling it by switching the selection to “selection border” …. though I’m not sure whether this can be done the same way in Photoshop…. ^_^;;

   …. Heck…. I’m sorry I can’t be more assist than this. My being a PSP user primarily doesn’t assist, nor does the fact that its entirely self-taught… so I don’t know the professional terms for particular functions or styles.

3. ravendark_82
   July 24th, 2009 at 9:39 am

   The pen tool is pretty easy to use once you get used to it. The pen connects dots basically. To draw a straight line click where you want it to start then click where you want it to stop and you will have a straight line. For curves click where you want it to start then click where you want it to stop but keep the mouse button pressed because you have to drag out the curve. So click drag to make a curve. You can always go back to rearrange things or change them using the direct selection tool, which is just the little arrow. Under the pen tool are other things that will assist you. There is the add anchor point, subtract anchor point and convert. The last is to change anchor points from smooth curves like S’s to angles curves like M’s. Take advantage of the direct selection tool to change your curves, I can never draw them right the first time so use it to drag out the handles on your curves. One important thing, although you can see the lines on your screen they will not print or save in a different format, they basically do not exist. You have to right click on the path you’ve drawn and on that menu select stroke path, you will have to select a tool, brush, pencil etc to stroke it with, play around with the brush sizes to get what you want.
   Check out this site
   It has a good explanation of the pen tool and some tutorials to play with along with some keyboard shorcuts. I know it says Illustrator but the pen is basically the same as in Photoshop. Hope this assists.