Having made a pencil drawing in a sketchbook, what is the best way to bring it into Krita so I can develop it and work on it with digital tools?
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Scan it as a jpg or png file or take a photo of it with your camera. Choose Layer from the top menu and then Import/Export, Import Layer.
If you want to draw or paint directly on your design, just start painting. If you want to preserve your design, add a new layer and paint on that new layer. You can lock the layer that your design is on to prevent yourself from accidentally altering it.
While taking photos with your phone is pretty easy it can result on uneven lighting of the work, which may (or may not) cause issues depending on what you want to do with it later in Krita.
When photographing, you must also make sure that the lens is positioned centrally in front of or above the image in order to keep the perspective “distortions” to a minimum. In contrast to a scanner, the individual image points in a photograph are at different distances from the lens. Even if these differences are minimal, they should be taken into account, at least for work that requires a high degree of accuracy. Usually, however, the feeling is sufficient for such photographs.
Michelist
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Really good and important point.
Inkscape has a great bitmap tracing tool. Can turn pencil lines into nice vector lines
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Fotocopy machines can scan things also into a digital format if you don’t have a scanner.
Thank you to everyone who replied! The light has come on in my brain!
Greg
Special thanks as always Sooz.
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Happy drawing, @Kupuna!
Depends on the type of drawing: is it a sketch or a finished drawing, with well-defined contours? If it’s a sketch, you can scan it in low resolution; if it’s finished, then it needs to be in high resolution.
You can vectorize through Inkscape as tachiko suggested. But if the contours are well defined, it won’t change much. As I said, it depends on the design.
This is an experiment I did a long time ago with a manga scan and using Inkscape vectorization. Colorization was also done there:
Thank you Guerreiro64. I’ve started looking into Inkscape.
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