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Menestria β Tutorial, How to draw without a graphic tablet
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Published: 2012-01-14 11:10:44 +0000 UTC; Views: 38646; Favourites: 615; Downloads: 808
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I announced this tuto here : [link]Now we're the 14th january. Here is the tuto. Thanks for your patience.
Don't hesitate to ask me questions if you don't understand something and to link back to this tuto if you created a drawing with it. I often fav the works.
To finish, I have new ideas of tutorials. So if this one is a success, I'll surely do others. So fav, comment and share ! ^^
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I love photoshop, but i am not with it till school starts again
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hi, i think your tutorial is very useful and i wanna try it for myself.. but im having a problem when selecting my path. (at the middle of Step 3). i can select the path and dotted lines do appear, but the whole area of the picture is also selected so when i fill it (painbucket) the whole area is filled with gray except the selected path >.< what should i do?..... huhu
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That awkward feel when somebody draws better than you even if you have graphic tablet.
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Excellent tutoriel! L'outil Plume était un mystère pour moi jusqu'à ce que je lise ton tuto. \o/
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Dear Menestria,
I was searching for a solution to my problem for hours, to make my pencil drawing to digital, and then... I found your tutorial... I am really thankful... Thank you so much!
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Hello,
I left Deviantart three years ago. I came back to answer to people who have questions about this tutorial.
I'm glad you like it. Did you do a drawing with it?
Have a nice day : )
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You're welcome : )
Did you try this technic?
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Awesome. My problem is that I generally end up erasing something on one layer, continuing with the lines I was working on earlier and midway through I realize I just lined stuff on the wrong layer. 
Great tip with those clipping masks, I never tried those. Or the illustrator pen.
C-A
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I have the same attention problem sometimes ; )
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Thank you SO VERY MUCH!!! ouo this helped out alot!
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: D I'm glad to read that! Have fun!
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I've done sketches before so far, I'm only an ordinary student in the IT field, not Art, I don't really have techniques and materials to clean up my rough, how did you clean up your rough anyways? if not with a physical eraser, any ways to do it in photoshop? Thx. One more question, I'm still confused about the clipping mask.
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Sorry for the late of my answer, I left Deviantart something as 3 years ago.
Did you find the answers to your questions?
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Sorry for the laste of my answer.
For the lines, I can use PS or AI.
For the colors, it's PS.
Have fun!
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Thanks very much! This will help me on my way to understand Illustrator/Photoshop!
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Honestly, there is one line that made me feel like you saved my life!
That is the one where you mentioned the ALT key in the process of using the pen tool. I used to swich to the "Convert point tool" whenever a curve went wrong and it was overly tiring. Thank you! >.<
This whole tutorial is very helpful, especially since I'm new to PS. I hope you'll do more in the future! ^^
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Hello : ) Sorry for the late of my answer, I left Deviantart. I just come back today (3 years after O o ) to answer to people who would have so difficults with this tutorial.
I'm glad if this this tutorial helped you a lot!^^
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*O* Hope this helps me! All i can draw right now are little demonic chibis... not the cute type exactly :L
GOD DAMN IT JUDY! Y U NO LEAVE TABLET PEN ALONE D:>
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Sorry for the late of my answer ': ) I left Deviantart, I come back today to answer to people with this tutorial.
I didn't understand your last sentence. But I guess this tutorial helped you. ; ) So I'm glad.
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I have NEVER managed to do digital artwork. I really hope this helps, it seems to cover issues I have come across that no other tutorial mentions. Thanks for this!!
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You'really welcome. : ) Don't hesitate to ask questions if you have a problem.
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Hello I think this is going to help me a lot. I seem to have a hard time with the books I have on it. Now I have Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 so can I still use this tutorial? I will see. Thanks.
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Sorry for my late answer.
I never use photoshop elements.
But if it has a pen tool, perhaps'll you be able to follow the tutorial.
I hope so !
Good luck !
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haha, i hoped that you would explain how to draw with mouse that your hand wouldn't shake or sth 
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You can do a drawing without to use a scanner. With the pen tool.
But it's more easier to draw with a rough guide.
Thank you ! : )
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I personally use the lasso and geometric lasso selection tools over the pen tool, because you can unselect parts of the path you want to make before you actually make something a layer has to commit to in Photoshop. What's more, it's preferable to draw on layer and then use a layer-screen on it so you can adjust parts you want to keep visible with a brush.
Also, when drawing with the brush tool, I use two methods:
1. Freehand using a mouse, which works for certain strokes, but not everything, but it's still useful.
2. Click (starting point) hold shift...click ending point to draw straight lines. This also works for curves if you make a series of small straight lines in sequence.
3. (once you have an image selected) Edit > Fill or Stroke and adjust where you want your brush to stroke or area to fill.
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Wow ! *take my french-english dictionnary.
...And I didn't understand everything.^^'
What is a layer-screen ? What means stroke ?
I didn't give all of my tips in this tuto. It'll be too long to write... and I do not master so well english.
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Ah, oops, I didn't mean Layer screen...I meant Layer Masking.
Layer Masking: It's where you create a layer and create a mask over the layer and use black and white brushes to reveal or erase parts of the layer you drew. This makes things easier to fix instead of Brush History or Undo or Step Backward commands. You can find this option on a little button at the bottom of your Layer box, next to the "Lock Layers" command, or you can find it in Layer > Layer Mask...Reveal All/Hide All/Reveal Selection/Hide Selection. Also it helps to know that the X button swaps out Black and White brushes so you can easily switch from erasing to revealing an image. You can also use the [ or ] keys to change the size of your brush.
Stroke/Fill: It's an Edit command that allows you to mess around with lines along a border you selected. For example, if you draw something with a Lasso Selection tool, you can go Edit > Stroke... and create a line of any thickness Inside, Outside, or at the very Center of the selection you just made, this allows you to pull off some interesting drawing tricks. You can even adjust the blending and opacity of your Fill or Stroke.
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I know these technics but I didn't know the english names. Thanks : D
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I hope so ! ^^ Thank you.
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et aussi j'ai essayé de faire une courronne mais des que y a un trait de tracé et que je veux crééer un autre point ça me fait une courbe -_-
hmmm je suis trop nul
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