One of the main problems I have with digitizing pencilwork is
A. Im a sucker for detail in pencil (I go all out, shading and details up the wazoo for me!)
B. I have no patience to "trace" over the drawing in photoshop. Doesnt help I use a mouse. And find tablets weird. Something which then makes it even harder when I have a drawing with a fuckton of details in it that i probably should have waited to do once I already had the picture digitized.
Thankfully, Ive managed to color WITHOUT digitally tracing the image in photoshop first. Still messing around with it, but hey, it seems to show promise.
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to this
and this,
to this
(not the best example though since I just couldnt get rid of the Paper's fibery texture, something which makes the coloring job look even weirder.)
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So maybe theres hope after all.
Now if Photoshop had line autosmoothing, then maybe I would give that tracing [parasitic bomb] another shot. but otherwise, no.