Rather than tracing the draft lines, use it as a reference when drawing. Lower the opacity of the draft layer and create a new 1 bit layer to ink your drawing.

In cases when it’s a hassle to draw, very easy to draw or your pen feels light you can skip this drafting layer and go straight to inking after the atari. Same as before, the type of layer doesn’t matter here either. Lower the opacity of the atari layer and trace your approximation in the new layer. Making the approximation much closer to how the final outline looks. The type of your layer doesn’t matter here so draw the approximation using whatever color you like. There is various ways for atari and no answer regarding how it is done so I think you should choose a method that allows you to replicate the style of your drawing. In manga, it mostly begins by deciding which drawing gets placed in which panel but when you want to be particular about the composition, you should start off by the rough draft and then proceed to approximation only when your composition is finalized.

Whilst “atari” is a process that decides on the proportions and settings, which will be applied in the finalized drawing. ① Drawing an approximationĪtari and rough drafts are often referred as the same thing but personally, I think rough drafts are a drawing process to catch the overall image of the illustration. These are the basic steps to drawing a person.įill-ins and screentones will be in later tutorials so I will explain the process upto inking.

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