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Making a traditional drawing or painting is one thing - but taking a good photo of it is quite another, and often harder than one might think. It's easy to get uneven lighting, or shadows, the white paper looks grey - or blue, or yellow -, your darks don't show up properly... In other words, it can be tricky to get everything right. Also, it can be daunting to start editing the photos you've taken and difficult to make them look like the artwork. So, I thought it would be fun to share my process, and how I do it A couple notes, first: I take photos of my artwork, rather than scanning it, due to not having a scanner. However, (most of) the editing part should work for scanned images as well. The example I'm using here is drawn on grey paper, but I use the same process for any kind of work, be it on black paper, white paper, or have a drawn/colored background. While everything is neat and linear here, it often happens I jump between stages and do small tweaks. Also, I occasionally