Question about scanning

[Minimi]

Monday next week, I'm buying a scanner, never had one before, and I was wondering, is it better to draw my drawing with pencil, or fineliner? Ohw, and another question. I'm using naturefriendly paper, that is grey, mostly... does that have any influence on the scanning quality? Btw.. most of my work are just sketches that need to be coloured in like photoshop.

[MrColossal]

hey

here's how i scan

i draw with pencil usually, then i trace it with ink either directly on the sketch or with my light box [if directly on the sketch make sure you erase the pencil lines and don't use HEAVY DARK FIRM lines for the pencil sketch]

then i use Curves or Levels in photoshop to bring up the black and white areas of the drawing, this will get rid of the grey paper colour and any stray pencil lines and only leave the black black

or i just trace it in photoshop on a seperate layer

i believe i talk about this in one of my tutorials

it's the one about colouring a scanned image and it's one of my worst

[Cerulean]

I use non-photo blue pencil and then ink. Scan at a high res as line art (black and white, not greyscale) to get just the ink. It's easier to pop in color with the fill tool at this resolution before you reduce and resample.

[jannar85]

I use non-photo blue pencil and then ink. Scan at a high res as line art (black and white, not greyscale) to get just the ink. It's easier to pop in color with the fill tool at this resolution before you reduce and resample.

Actually, I prefer gray scale instead. The black and white will give the drawing holes.
When scanning in gray s, you must play around with the brightness/contrast to get it somehow like line-art. When done with that, you *can* get the lines darker if you download 602Photo, and use auto tuning. Now, bring the image back to the application you want to color it in.

That's my method though.

The program can be downloaded from here:
http://support.software602.com/products/pcs4/

[MrColossal]

jannar, why not just use curves and threshold like my method?

http://www.sylpher.com//kafka/tutorials/curves.htm

i feel i have more control over the finished lineart when i have sliders to slide instead of just leaving it up to the scanner