Clean Line Art! Digital Inking Tips

Getting smooth clean line art can be quite a challenge when using a Wacom Tablet or a Cintiq. Today we want to show you how to get clean lines in photoshop. These tips will help you smooth out your line art and make more professional looking art. And we included some fun Inking exercises for you guys to download!

Enjoy! and let us know in the comments if this helped you in your art!

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[AndreaGerstmann]

Aw shucks guys! Thanks for the shout out! This video is great by the way. These exercises take me back to my theme park caricature days. New staff had to do a lot of these drills in training. Brent knows what I'm talking about (we both did caricatures before animation)

[Rin-qjzt]

thanks for actually telling us HOW to practice, instead of just telling us to practice

[threeeyed]

“Many new artists go over their completed lines multiple times because it makes them feel good, or something” is a quote so true it hurts

[cecehunter]

How do you get cleaner lines?

Any artist: Just practice

BaM Animation: Just practice... but BETTER

[jesuschrist.official]

How to be good at lineart:
Step 1: *Stabilizer is the key*

After 3 years I realized you don't need them, you just need to be very perfect and precise with the pen

[eleternauta]

*Every artist: Keep practicing*

This video save my life, thanks

[ListeningPoint]

FINALLY a channel that actually gives EXERCISES instead of just showing you how they do something without explaining why.

[poopbitty]

Not even art school taught me the tip of drawing circles repeatedly to practice line confidence, and after doing it here and there at work for just one shift so far has made an absurdly amazing difference in my lineart quality tonight?? i sound like an infomercial review. but seriously, I'm seeing an improvement from one side of this drawing i'm working on from days ago to the other side done tonight. i feel a little cheated out of 25k in student loans :(

[fakecubed]

I immediately started getting better lines after watching a cartoonist live draw his comic for an audience, and I saw how many times he was hitting those undo shortcut keys. It's real. I started embracing that and now I imitate his fast motion (fast is smooth) and the constant undos instead of trying to slowly get it right with a single attempt.

[robo]

"practice more" is just the formal version of "git gud"

[kanden]

“Ctr+Z constantly”

Me: Cries in left handed.

[yourmama]

What type of brush did you use for this video?

[penguinsmelodic]

As a mouse artist, it's very difficult to draw smooth lines or have the patience to draw multiple sketches. Tip for any other mouse artists out there: draw your sketch traditionally and then trace it digitally for the line art. Also, turn the stabilizer/smoothing all the way up. It helped me out a ton :D

And of course, like the video said, practice is helpful! Very difficult, yes, but helpful nonetheless.

[Jyuille]

For anyone else who actually went to do these exercises I found it VERY helpful to watch the video "How to Hold a Graphics Tablet Pen Correctly". I realized my grip was wrong, and the way I was drawing was wrong. By changing it my lines and strokes improved immediately. Hope this helps someone out there

[thomasmeable]

"Many new artists go over their completed lines multiple times because it makes them 'feel good' or something"
MAN that is so on-point, it's incredible! I'm 110% called out on that one!
This is very good content guys, thanks :)

[liviydeath]

I stopped drawing in 2010, I just didnt feel confident in my art although at the time it was pretty decent.

My hand shakes constantly I dont know why I havr always been that way since I was young.

When digital art started popping up I just felt so defeted.

I decided to get back in to art in 2019 doodling here and there on a sketch pad.

this year i felt confident enough to buy a tablet.

I was ready to give up because i thought i was a shity drawer.

this video has made me feel a little more confident thank you.

[zeenea_c]

One additional point for more pen control: Go in alternating directions. E.g, if you're making one circle clockwise, make the next anticlockwise. If you're starting a line from the top of the page, start the next from the bottom. Great video!! Thank you for uploading!

[shereefshokry]

1:56 Zebbra Stroke
2:13 S-Curve
2:18 Circles
2:33 Flower Petals
2:39 Bullet Markes

[XerxesTexasToast]

Hearing that professional animators are also constantly smashing undo on bad strokes makes me feel so goddamn validated

[flesh_robot]

For anyone randomly scrolling through the comments, one trick I use for making the edges where different lines meet is by keeping the lineart on multiple different layers. I usually use 3-4 layers, but it can depend on the complicatedness of the drawing. Corners can be a little challenging, but it's overall very helpful.