How to digitally edit traditional lineart by BeckyKidus, literature
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How to digitally edit traditional lineart
Maybe you are one of those people who draw lineart traditionally and color it digitally, maybe you're just a traditional artist who enjoys drawing lineart and wants to share those, or maybe you're interested in making bases or coloring pages: regardless, the challenge of properly photographing/scanning the drawing immediately appears. And that is what we'll talk about in this tutorial
Small note: I will be using the (free) image editor GIMP in this tutorial. Other image editors will have the same functions, but they might look slightly different.
Another note: if you're dealing with colored artwork, this will be the tutorial for you: How to take and edit photos of traditional art
Step 1: Drawing the lineart
Before we can do anything else, we need to have a finished lineart. Ideally, it should be on white paper - this saves a lot of editing! - and have clearly visible lines. Inking the lines/drawing them with a pen will make them nice and dark, and I would recommend doing this
Give Bee badges to art that has you buzzing! by team, journal
Give Bee badges to art that has you buzzing!
When you find a deviation or comment that’s buzz-worthy during the month of May, give it a limited-time Bee badge!
If you give 20 badges before the end of the month, you’ll also get a Sweet as Honey badge for your profile!
How to give the Bee badge:
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Monthly Lineart Contest - May 2025 by AlexanderPaupoff, journal
Monthly Lineart Contest - May 2025
The winners have been announced!
This contest is now closed.
Thank you for your participation
Welcome to the May 2025 Lineart contest
brought to you by
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Mer-May
🌃Urban legends🌁
Create a line art inspired by the theme for a chance to win and badge prizes, and
have your lines coloured in the next DA & Chill session on the official DA Discord server.
Rules
All entries should be at least 1200 x 1200 pixels and 300 dpi resolution to print in high resolution. [Need help? Use this website to check the pixel size and dpi of your image.]
Traditional drawings must be clean scanned, in focus, adjusted to predominately black and white, and on plain white paper. [Need help? Check out this excellent tutorial by @BeckyKidus: How to digitally edit traditional lineart.]
Submit your entry to the contest folder.
Only one entry per person.
Your work should be created specifically for this contest, which means no work submitted before May 01, 2025.
The lineart must be your
Hi everyone, I hope you are well. I am sharing this Journal to show you how to get badges (in case you already know, you can ignore it). For those who are still confused, the tags section is this one:
And generally to get them (either by doing a tutorial or activity), the site explicitly says to put the tag that is presented.
I will do it with the current one so you can see it.
This is my deviation with the tag:
And this is the notification that I was given it:
In case you have uploaded your deviation without the tag you must RESUBMIT IT, if you put it in the description or mentioned section, you will not get it.
Just that, I hope it is useful
Equinox out
Tutorial: Draw a butterfly with Bonny Snowdon by team, journal
Tutorial: Draw a butterfly with Bonny Snowdon
Let your art skills take delicate flight under the instruction of BonnySnowdonAcademy, an award-winning animal artist who specializes in coloured-pencil tutorials for all levels.
BonnySnowdonAcademy is an inspirational and informative hub for artists, complete with lessons on how to master realistic colored-pencil techniques, structured learning, expert guidance, and a supportive community.
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Take a test flight from flower to flower by following along with the tutorial below to create a stunning butterfly as instructed by BonnySnowdonAcademy!
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When you submit your butterfly with the tag #BonnySnowdonAcademy, you'll get an email with a code good for a free greyhound tutorial at
DeviantArt and Infinite Painter are each donating $1.00 USD to the Humane Society for every qualified submission featuring cat art.
This art challenge will help protect and care for cats!
-I'll be drawing lot of cats for a while to support the cause.
I'm starting a fanmade revival of the short lived show, Cartoon Sushi from MTV. Let me know what animated shorts you would like to see in an episode.https://archive.org/details/@dydee_soule
I love foxes too they're beautiful and smart animals and red foxes are my number one favorite wild dog and my second favorite mammals next to elephants
