[EmberWolf]

Occasionally I get people asking me how I do lines/what my settings are/that sort of thing. So I figured I'd throw this together real quick with all my settings and how to!

1. Sketch is the sketch, I use the default pen tool usually in some sort of not-black color so I can easily differentiate it from my lines later. I lower the opacity before I line over it.

2. Using the pen tool at 255% (max) Opacity, 2 px size, smoothing ~40%, and with size pressure (no opacity pressure), I make the lines.

3. I go back over the entire lines with a ~3 px size eraser with size pressure (note: not on by default with Oekaki) and sharpen the edges, thin certain areas, and clean up the lines overall. I get rid of all the blunt edges and make delicate features thinner.

4. Now to get a perfect fit color layer and also speed up the entire coloring process, I duplicate my lines layer, lock it, and color it entirely with another color.

5. On that duplicated colored layer, I unlock and use the paintbucket fill and fill in all the big areas

6. Using the pen tool, I fill in the rest of the insides being careful not to touch the outer edges

7. Drag that color layer under the original lines, lock it - done! I have clean lines and a clean color layer. I also usually color in the lines layer with another color and set to multiply 100% opacity.

And that's basically the gist of it! If you have any questions, feel free to reply to this thread and I'm happy to answer c:

Part 2 with shading/highlights process here

[BadgerBuddies]

Thank you for these tips!!! Would love to learn more about shading from you if you ever decide to make a part two<333

[odi]

step 1: learn anatomy

[COOLDOGOOO]

this is super helpful, thank you so much for putting it together!! <33

[BlueEyedKite]

I just found this and I am marking and stashing in my tutorial list!

[EmberWolf]

Added a part 2 finally! Covering my process for shading/highlights c:

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