@Ranefea:

Yep, it was a long time ago... It was Inuyasha with the tetsusaiga. The feet were really small... =^_^=

I usually would press undo if it didn't go the way I wanted it to, but it didn't work once the selection closed for some reason. That's when I had to start over.

@Kitty K.O.:

Yeah, the lasso tool is very specific, lol. But that's what Shift and alt are for XD. Instead of refoing everything, just add and delete from it, lol.

I don't think so, lol. I remember drawing it, but I don't remember the image itself. XD
Yup, yup. =)

@Ranefea:

Ah, yes... I'm familiar with stroking (that sounds wrong... =o.o=) and filling (doesn't sounds wrong but perverts could still make it so XD), but I've never tried making it a selection... I'll have to try that sometime. And, ugh, I know with the lasso tool! I had to use it in class to take an image out of Photoshop and put it on Illustrator and the damn thing kept either going the wrong way or sealing the selection before I was finished! I wanted to kill it, but I'm not paying for school property... =^_^;= Thanks for the advice. Btw, I've never done a drawing for you, have I? (I still have that one drawing of Inuyasha you did on my wall, along with Brit's drawing of Goku and Nita's Umbrella girl... and Ryan's odd drawing of me =^_^;= I miss the old days... *sigh*)

@Kitty K.O.:

Kind of. The lasso too is too hard to control though - the polygonal and magnetic lasso tools are much better. But they can leave selections blocky and jagged still. With the pen tool, once you've made a path, say outlining the character's shirt, you can right click (as long as you still have one of the path tools selected), you can choose to stroke the path(great for line art), fill the path(good for paint bucketing), or make the path a selection. Since the pen tool allows you to make much smoother lines, it's better to use it for things like this. And once you get the hang of it, it's a lot quicker as well.

@Ranefea:

Selection? You mean like the lasso tool?

@Kitty K.O.:

No problem. Not only can you do the line art with it, but you can use it to outline and select the whole area so you don't have that problem. =)

@Ranefea:

I don't use it often... I thought about it, though. That one fanart that I did of Isaac from Castlevania (The one called Skin and Bones in my fanart folder), the entire tatoo I did with the pen tool. Didn't turn out too badly. Maybe I'll try using the pen tool next time I have that problem. Thanks. =^_^=

ohhhh ok, that's what you meant. Yeah, paint bucket is a bad way to go with ink line art though. how familiar are you with the pen tool and paths?

@Ranefea:

Actually, that's what I do... =o.o= I have a profile layer, so that those line won't be interfered with (unless I want them to be) and a color layer that has the profile and will have the color. Any other layer I don't use profiles on, I just use other layers profiles. I picked up that tip a while ago... It was just thin to begin with... too thin for a paint bucket X0

@Kitty K.O.:

Yeah, I know! XD

Ah, ok. Well here is a tip if you're going to use the scanned ink line art: Don't colour over the line art, but keep the line art as the top layer with a multiply layer blend. That way the black lines stay crisp and the white becomes transparent. When you add the color, you can let the color and lines overlap and you don't have to worry about any weak spots, even if it's thin. =D You can also duplicate the line art layer on top of itself and that will make the lines darker and more prominent - it will also help make any left over residue more apparent so you can get rid of it better. ^^

@Ranefea:

Hey Ran, long time no type. =^_^=

I mean that when I try to fill in certain areas with color (like the santa suits, for example), there isn't a definite enough border and the color leaks through to places I don't want it to go. =^~^= *sigh* It's faster to fill in the colors like that, but if you have to go through and fix each individual spot that has a weak spot in it, it'll take ages... =@.@= Oh, well.... I HAVE A TABLET NOW!!! =^v^= lol

What do you mean the profile is too thin?