Cant draw - wont draw

Well that's not completely true but I have found some interesting methods to help in the creation of line drawings. Every designer wants to find ways of saving time and as the most important aspect of design is the the content the drawing side of things is the most obvious place to look for time saving techniques. I have found that by combining analogue sketching with digital enhancement this process is easily achieved.

You can see from the 2 figure above some on this processes. The first figure shows a quick line drawing of a figure which has been sketched and scanned in. The second image shows a much more refined and well proportioned image. The computer was used to clean up the original picture, re-size and remove any elements of the image which has not worked. The leg was reworked as what the right arm which did not sit right on the body. The image was then printed and worked on before scanning and putting back into Photoshop, where the final image was cleaned up and printed on brown paper ready to be hand painted. You might say what go through the process of using the computer. well. Firstly one does not need to be too precious about the original drawing, using a rubber I was able to try a number of options before coming the final design choice. Lastly as the final image is saved in the computer if there are changes to the drawing this image can be edited and printed again.