 Take
any image you've drawn, be it a doodle or something more refined, and
scan it at at least double the final image resolution. In most cases,
the final resolution will be 72 Dots Per Inch. So scan the image at at
least 144DPI. My scanner doesn't want to play nice, and only lets me
select 150DPI as the closest approximation. You can scan it as whatever
mode you want (Color, Black and White, Line Art), but Black and White
is what I used here.
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 As
you can see, the initial input can be as messy as this sketch of Furball
and Rita. We'll be cleaning it up in Photoshop. The important thing
is to have a general idea for the finished picture. I have a Wacom
Artpad, so I can "ink" the pencil sketch digitally. A close up of the
scanned piece reveals how dirty (besides subject matter, that is) it
is: stray lines, abandoned paths, out of proportion parts, etc. That
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