Step 1:
Just an old fashioned hand drawn quick sketch of concept.
Materials used: trusty old mechanical pencil
Step 2:
Rough sketch scanned in
Materials used: HP scanner...nothing fancy about it.
Step 3:
Open the .jpg image your lovely scanned image into Photoshop. I use Photoshop CS3, but you can use any version of Photoshop to edit your illustration.
All I did was go in with the eraser tool, and clean up some of those sloppy stray lines that my eraser couldn't entirely pick up. You may choose to leave some of the stray lines to create a sort of Da Vince sketch look. I'm sure your sketches look MUCH better than Da Vinci's, don't they. Of course they do!
After you are finished erasing lines, you may want to go in with the paint brush as I did here and fix some of the lines that don't visually make sense.
I did my best to achieve a "coloring book" image. The reason for this is because Adobe Illustrator is a very CLEAN program that can't understand the "sketchy" look. "Vector" images are very different from the "raster" images. You will see what I mean in the future steps. The goal in photoshop is to create super simple line than can be easily interpreted by Adobe Illustrator. Be sure to KICK UP THAT CONTRAST!!!!!!
Materials used: Adobe Photoshop CS3
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