Comics with scanned pencil lines?

[akitsukino]

Kind of a weird one, but it is something I was concerned with. I’ve been thinking of combining traditional and digital methods. I seem to sketch faster on paper, but ink better digitally. But I’m wondering if I finessed it right if I could use traditional pencil lines as final lines. So I thought I’d ask for some recs. Anyone know of any webcomics that use traditional pencil lines for the finals?

[akitsukino]

Episode 1

This is the closest I could find and I even I can’t confirm if this is traditional or digital pencil.

[angie_draws_things]

The only well-known example I know of is Megatokyo, but that comic's heyday was at least 15 years ago. It is still online, but drama and slow updates took its toll on the comic.

Still, it is a good example of a comic composed of pencil lines.

[thecrystalrook]

I do my backgrounds that way nowadays. You can do it, but you need your pencil lines to be clean af and you need to make them dark enough. that also means knowing how to adjust the brightness and contrast of the scanned image to bring out the linework without adding noise into the image.

[noenoh]

I remember Tapas had a webcomic like that here (I bought it all but didnt had enough time to read it and now its gone =_= )
I dont know where is hosted atm but found an old review https://demonarchives.com/why-i-read-impulse/

(my fav character was Noh lol he had my nickname and I got an extra liking to him for that )

[lizardlullabye]

I don't know of any comic, but here's how I clean up pencil work for drawings if it helps.

1) Like thecrystalrook said, clean and dark pencil lines.

2) Convert image to black-and-white so you can erase/clean up areas with brush (white color). You can adjust levels AND/OR the brightness-&-contract to make lines darker and uncolored parts more white, less noise. Clean up if needed.

3) You can sort of fiddle around with the line colors with a screen or overlay layer. Add color using a multiply layer. If linework is too light, coloring will be kind of annoying. Play around with layers to see what works.

Alternative: If you sketch in colored pencils (red/blue) and do final inking in black, this tutorial might work. I never tried it, but part of art is figuring out what works and what does not, for you.

[sorible]

You should check out the QnA episode (after episode 55) from Miss Abbot and the Doctor on webtoon. Maripaz villar doesn't color a lot of her episodes but she does use traditional pencil lines as her finals. She also has a short story (after episode 40) called Casey and Sulley which is colored.

It's pretty much impossible to draw without drafting or sketching it out, so most people will use a lighter colored pencil and then go over it in normal graphite (maybe something thinner like a 2B or HB?) It has a unique look, but most people won't work this way because you have to be really clean and neat. Even if you do clean the image up after.

It's up to you, but because going digital is more convenient and takes less effort, I would at least practice sketching digitally a few hours per day.

[LadyLily]

I've done so many mixed media with my art, and I usually love the results. My favorite is black ink lines (which can be duplicated in a digital program) and traditional pastel pencil or watercolor. As long as one style doesn't overpower the other and you can find a way of it blending without being intrusive, it should be fine. If you like the outcome, go with it. It's YOU and brings out something different among the sea of conformity.

Just a fish I did with black ink lines over pencil, then watercolor pencil.

[LadyLily]

That's definitely all digital.

[Pandastrophic]

Hi, I did the first 60 or so episodes of my comic with pencil sketchy lineart combined with digital colouring before transitioning to fully digital. Heres my comic if you'd like to look through it.
My comic is a webtoon/scroll style comic as well so I used to draw the panels in a sketchbook, scan them, edit the scans, colour them then arrange them into a scroll format.

I'm not sure if you're looking for feedback/advice regarding this but I'd just like to share my personal experience doing this for the first 2 years of making my comic.
I prefer drawing in pencil lineart, when I started my comic I also felt like my pencil linearting was much faster than my digital but after a while the whole process of preparing and cleaning scans felt longer than when I drew fully digital panels. It was especially annoying if I wanted to change anything after already scanning and cleaning the lines, like changing a hand pose or an expression was super annoying because I'd either have to fix it traditionally and rescan or fix it digitally and try to make the digital pencil brush match perfect with the traditional pencil. Also if I feel like maybe the episode needed some extra panels and I'd have to go through the process of preparing my scanned pencil lines again just to add a small panel. I think I switched over to digital when I felt like "This would be easier if I just drew it digitally".
You also have to consider that some digital tools aren't available to you if you go with traditional lineart, like using 3D background, while you CAN use them after you scan and clean your lines I think it would be harder to make the 3D backgrounds mesh with traditional lineart.
When I switched over to digital I still had a similar lineart style, like it still felt kinda sketchy and I used a pencil brush.
EDIT: The comic you linked as an example is I think digital but uses a pencil brush.

Using traditional lines could definitely work though! it really comes down to how your process is, I feel like it was harder for me because I change my mind a lot during the whole process so it was just easier to make changes on digital lines.

[Shanny8]

You could scribble the pages out traditionally, scan them, peel back the opacity and ink them on another layer in whatever program you use.