What are some way you do the sketches and do the lining? Do you make a rough sketch and then a detail sketch and then do the line art, or do you only make one rough sketch and then do the line art, or do one detail sketch before you do line art and what colors of the rough sketch or detail sketch you do before the line art, is it gray, red or blue?
Oct '23
Oct '23
I guess for me it all comes down to if I warmed up enough.
Usually, I do rough thumbnails, blow them up to panel size, do a "buildup"- shapes, proportion, necessary details, then lineart.
But in some cases, like for fast sketches, i'll do a rough in red...
Then lineart...
This only took a few minutes, cause I did some drawing beforehand.
Meanwhile, my comic takes ages to finish, and it doesn't look the best, lol!
I make a very rough sketch and refine it until I’m happy with it as a base. I done erase what’s already down, I just keep drawing lines until the shape is right. I’ll usually use a different layer for each subject and a different colour “ink” as well.
Once I’m satisfied that the sketches are good I add a new layer and do my preliminary inking on that. I then do the “flat”, or basic colouring on the same layer. Then I further refine the inking. After this I do the final colouring and shading.
Here’s an example of the basic sketching:
Basic inking (sketch layer is invisible in this screenshot):
Flat colouring:
Final colouring (for the main scene):
And then I start on the background, which is a whole process in itself:
And here’s the finished image:
Not sure it's the same thing exactly, but as a digital artist who works with manipulatable sprites more or less, I tend do what I call an "action sketch", in which I draw a simple stickfigure to get the right body language, and then draw the character. (Not traced, cause I don't worry about proportions with the stickfigure) It's also helpful for the sake of getting camera angles right, and because these are sprites, it helps to lesson the rigidity of the characters.
I posted mine here
I use a different brush for my sketches. A more pencil-y one. Then I turn down the opacity and start drawing the lines. I often tend to erase the sketches in areas I’ve done instead of deleting it all at once at the end, idk why my brain just likes it.
So I usually start with this kind of rough sketch. It's a more painterly sorta style and helps me get the shapes and composition down faster.
Then I open a new layer and do a more detailed pencil sketch.
Then I do the linework on another layer.
Last thing is to do inking/shading and coloring sometimes to get the finished bit. 
But sometimes I only do one type of sketch, like I might do a more detailed rough sketch so I won't need the pencil sketch. If I'm doing a painting, I don't sketch, just keep detailing after getting the rough shape down with colors. Like this one was halfway done and all one layer. 
similar to @2DLensy
I do thumbnails, I blow them up to page proportions and go over them in a red pen then I Ink
I don't do line art anymore! Or thumbnails!
Instead I work on an iPad where I throw the text in from my goblin draft, and draw a very rough (thumbnail-like, but full print sized) sketch, usually in yellow or orange. I then block in the shapes and colors, refine the sketch to have backgrounds and and new details (in light blue, if necessary - if It's a character I've drawn a lot, I can usually skip this step), and then I do the final "lines" which are basically like a cleaner (but still loose) sketch (in some kind of a red-brown or purple - depends on how much contrast I want in the final piece). Then I color and finish the lettering.
I used to do three layers of iterative sketches and THEN do super clean dark lines but... naaah.
I start with a very messy sketch, then make increasingly detailed sketches til I have something to work with for lineart. I either clean up my final sketch and use it as the lines, or do lineart on top of it. Depends on how I'm feeling 
Here its an old example of my process.
I start with some lines, then gives them human shape, resize when needed, then do the characters, and finally the lineart.
In this example I added last the speech bubbles, but I have learned that its for the best to add first the bubbles, and last the characters. Or at least think of all of that at the same time, to direct better the sight of the reader.
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