Inking (how I do it)

Hello, everyone! I thought I would do a post on how I do a post on how I edit my drawings.

It is my hope that this will be very helpful information ;)

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First I scan the drawing using a flatbed scanner (I have also used a digital camera, this works in a pinch).

Then I use the threshold tool in GIMP to change every pixel in the grayscale image to either black or white.

Setting the opacity to around 20.0, I then use the bucket tool to shade the various parts of the image.

I add color.

For this particular image I wanted to add a background. To do this I go to:

Layer–>Transparency–>Add Alpha Channel

I then select the part I want to get rid of, in this case the white background. to do this I select the background by color,

then delete it.

Now it is time to add the background. Here I have the skyline of a certain Canadian city:

What I do is import the background as a layer. I do this by going to:

File–>Open as layers

I mess around with the color, scale and blurriness of the background as I see fit,

then flatten the image.

Ta-Da!