How does he get such smooth crisp outlines in PA? my lines in PS look all wobly.

rotanadan

http://studio23.us/joe/inkingQ.jpg

Maybe I need so zoom out more to make smoother shorter hand motions? using paint brush tool like 96ish hardness.

NibCrom

http://www.penny-arcade.com/patv/gabe-art/101/

rotanadan

Yea I have watched that, he makes pretty big strokes it seems, but they seem so clean and not wavering like mine, I wonder what the deal is. I should check to see if it shakes when the pen is just sitting still.

ruzkin

Don't use Photoshop. Get Painter Sai for beautifully smooth lines.

Suzuka Grey

Use the Pen Tool in Illustrator

It makes the most beautiful lines I've ever seen.

NibCrom

How long have you been using your tablet?

(BTW, I think this is a topic more suited to the Questions thread.)

ninjai

could be the size of your tablet/resolution of the image you're working on/flow setting

Scosglen

This is not a technical problem with some box being unticked in photoshop. There is no "deal", or trick, or special flick of the wrist, or magic tool/program.

Gabe has been inking PA 3 times a week for over a decade, in addition to all of his work outside the strip. His strokes are clean and confident, and yours are not, because he has been doing it a thousand times longer.

Even if you are rocking the smallest Bamboo tablet on the market, 95% of this issue is practice.

Octirin

rotanadan wrote:

Maybe I need so zoom out more to make smoother shorter hand motions?

I kinda wanna say the opposite: zoom in and make longer, quicker strokes. Maybe try with your hand/wrist off the tablet?

m3nace

Definitely make quicker strokes, you can always use ctrl z to go one step back, or alt ctrl z to go back more steps.
It's nothing about your tablet settings or photoshop brushes. Wobbly lines come from a hand that isn't confident enough most of the time.

Agentflit

Scosglen wrote:

This is not a technical problem with some box being unticked in photoshop. There is no "deal", or trick, or special flick of the wrist, or magic tool/program.

Gabe has been inking PA 3 times a week for over a decade, in addition to all of his work outside the strip. His strokes are clean and confident, and yours are not, because he has been doing it a thousand times longer.

Even if you are rocking the smallest Bamboo tablet on the market, 95% of this issue is practice.

This is absolutely correct. Just like playing the piano or performing a triple backflip, there is no trick. Just practice.

MagicToaster

Agentflit wrote:

Scosglen wrote:

This is not a technical problem with some box being unticked in photoshop. There is no "deal", or trick, or special flick of the wrist, or magic tool/program.

Gabe has been inking PA 3 times a week for over a decade, in addition to all of his work outside the strip. His strokes are clean and confident, and yours are not, because he has been doing it a thousand times longer.

Even if you are rocking the smallest Bamboo tablet on the market, 95% of this issue is practice.

This is absolutely correct. Just like playing the piano or performing a triple backflip, there is no trick. Just practice.

This is the answer.

Grifter

http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/105734/questions-discussion-and-tutorials#Item_1602