Interior of rooms and drawings of buildings

[catty152]

I've seen webcomics where their line art for buildings are so nice and straight. How do you draw line art for buildings and interiors on photoshop? If I try tracing an under layer picture of a photo of a building with my pen brush I know my lines will be crooked and have different thickness.

[iddqd]

I don't always use digital tools, but when I do, I use the Pen tool most often. I use GIMP, but it's gotta be the same in Photoshop. Doing straight lines (or long sweeping curves) is hard enough with a pencil on paper, but using a tablet I find it impossible to do freehand. Pen tool is amazing that way.

Also, check out work by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue. He did some amazing building renderings in pen and ink with very good economy in line.

[CaptainUfo]

Depending on what your style is, hand drawn slightly imprecise lines may not be a bad thing.
Anyway, if you're looking for uniform and clean, there's the line tool and if you need more complex shape, you can use the vector Path tool and then trace it.

[Michelle]

Honestly, I much prefer hand-drawn architecture to ones with perfect straight lines. The latter feels so cold and robotic, there's no character to it.

If you're having a hard time keeping your lines straight and not wobbly, that's a matter of practicing til you can be more confident in your lineart. You can also use programs like Lazy Nezumi to stabilize your lines (without making them stick-straight), since certain tablets and Photoshop don't get along very nicely.

[Heck]

This is a common problem for me because my hands are kind of bad. I love good lineart and I'm always trying to get it looking nice :<

I do all my lineart with the pen tool, depending on your program it should be available. This tool allows better stability, editing, and adjustments. I usually turn my stability and pen pressure all the way up. If you can't find this tool in your program, I recommend looking up "How to do lineart in [program]" on youtube for specific instructions on how other artists adjust their settings. If your pen pressure is still wonky, you can adjust it further in your tablet settings (usually found near pen calibration, assuming you have a wacom). Keep in mind that lineart takes a really long time and you'll likely have to spend it going really slow and zooming in, but it's all worth it in the end!

[TrustyShamrock]

i mostly just know photoshop. but theres a buncha ways to get straight lines with that. theres a line tool where ya can set the line thickness and then just click and drag then TADA straight line.
ya can also use the brush tool by clicking at the start of a line + hold shift + click at end of line
with digital stuff i usually like makin a super straight line for the sketch part of it then trace over it freehand when im inking with the brush tool so it looks straight but not boring robot straight

[Doubtcent]

I use Clip Studio Paint (quite close to Photoshop) and I use a combination of straight and curved lines, depending on what needs to be done. Also, to make my ink seem a lot more organic, I use the textured pen, a tool that makes the ink "bleed" on the paper.

As for how I do it, simply, I just hold down the shift button while inking to get a straight line. However I only use it for basic room and building stuffs. Anything else like furniture or life effects I try my best to do it by hand. Mostly because in real life, we have a lot of straight lines going on at the base. But anything that could be considered as "handmade" or "organic" or even "old" has to be drawn by hand or it would come across as too stiff. There's a balance to how backgrounds can and should be made.