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Choosing your lines

Choosing your lines

From the course: Drawing Good and Evil Comic Book Characters

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Choosing your lines

- So somewhere within all this madness is the lines we're looking for. Up until now I wasn't worried about making the wrong marks The ones we need are there somewhere, we just need to find them and pull them out. Depending on if I'm working traditionally or digitally, that can be done in different ways. If I was working on paper, I'd probably use several sheets of paper and draw really really lightly so that I could erase and try new things, and then I would use a lightbox to lay a new clean sheet over and find the actual lines that we want to keep. But whereas I'm in Photoshop, I'm going to just take the opacity down and create a new layer on top of it so that when I do make new lines, you can see they really stand out. So what I want to do is I'm going to get rid of that line, because that was just for demo purposes, but what I want to do is go through and look at all these scratchy lines we have in here and kind of figure out the ones that we want to keep. It's kind of like the…

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