Re: [SkunkworksAMA] Re: New file uploaded to SkunkworksAMA

From: Zach Collins (Siege) <"Zach>
Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 21:01:19 -0500

On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Take a wild, friggin guess
<a_change_of_plans_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
>  Thanks.  But I think the scans are too coarse looking, possibly a
> result of the drawing being done with such a light pencil that the
> scanner can't see the details when it tries to scan.
>
>  I might just post pen sketch versions of the remaining pictures,
> because the pencil sketches are really looking too choppy for my
> tastes.  But thanks anyway, man!

I've found that it takes a little tweaking.. I first switch to
greyscale scanning, then tweak the brightness/gamma and color curve a
bit until the softer lines start to show. Then after scanning, I take
it into a graphics program, darken the lines a little, drop out the
greyish background, then tweak the color depth down to sixteen shades
or less (the human eye can accurately distinguish right around 15-16
shades of grey/black, but a lot more shades of green and/or gold).
Things still look a little rough, but fewer lines are left out that
way.

Sadly, even when I do that, my artwork still sucks. And all I draw is
stick figures anyway, so, well, not much point posting it here. ;)

-- 
Zach Collins (Siege)
"If code can be speech, then software can be art."
Received on Sun Mar 01 2009 - 18:01:22 CST

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