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I think this thread should come to a close
The purpose behind this is unclear.
In your descriptions you do not state what your intent of doing this is. You start straight into your procedure. Also people have asked you what it is, and you respond with yet another unclear message:
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What is this meant to achieve? What does it do?
@Ai, this simply is another way to do it, and it's the fastest I know of, so it may/may not be the best way, but it's the best that I know.
another way to do what?
If this is intended for CG use why all the effort? Just paint ontop of it. This would be the rough sketch for the project - the finished product. If you notice there are alot of mistakes, alot of implications and alot to clean up on. As you paint you would clean these things as you go, almost essentially creating a new image useing that one as a very close reference by painting over it. Atleast thats how I work. I dont spend alot of time cleaning my base lines.
If you are cleaning this for CG so that it looks like a clean, refined finished sketch, again, I dont exactly see the point of cleaning it up like that. I would retrace the lines with an inking pen refining and cleaning them as I go. To make the basic sketch become a complete finished product on a digital medium. Essentially it would be the same ideas as comic books, inkers recieve the pencil sketch and ink over and correct mistakes to make it a finished product. They do not merely darken the lines and make the whites whiter.
Now, if this was to be cleaned up for pixelart... It definatly is not clean and no better than the original sketch. All the lines are blocky and blotchy. Stray pixels here and there. It would be better to make a new layer over it and trace the lines with a pixel tool. It does not take that long - I have done it for other images. As you trace it too, you will have your nice clean crisp lines that help in pixeling. Since you traced on a separate layer ontop, all your spaces are white and you are ready to go.
Honestly, Im not entirely sure of the point of this project. You duplicated my image?
seems quite the process.
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Next time, if you wish to do a post / tutorial like this it would benefit you in asking the artist for permission first. Seeing as how you did not ask the artist - me - then you do not have any rights in using it, even for demonstration purposes. This image was intended to be just a pencil sketch, unless in some future I decided to change it into something more.
personally, i enjoy the original more.
Then ontop of that, there is no true pixel art in this thread. Perhaps it is trying to explain an idea, give suggestion to a new technique, but there is no true pixelart in this thread. Therefore it does not belong in the pixel art section for the board. Seeing as how this is intended to be a tutorial it would be better suited for the general discussion.
Lastly, you are unclear about what you are trying to get across to us. If this seemed to serve a sufficient purpose and was clear in description perhaps I may have let it slide. But seeing as how most people who read this thread and responded are unclear about the purpose along with myself, I dont see this being overly worthwhile. Not only in your description and responses is there unclarity, but the whole project itself seems unclear. All you are doing is cleaning lines?
If you wish to continue this tutorial by all means go ahead. I do see the effort you put in and I do appreciate how you want to try and help other artists here. But perhaps could you post this in the appropriate section with your own original image or one that you have gotten permission for? Along with that, make sure you are more clear in your original post.