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Here is a link to another technique I use:

My Technique.

I used Photoshop 6.01 and Painter 8.

1. Scanning and Cleaning your work.

Step 1 : Scan your image. I scan my image at 300 dpi .

Step 2 : Duplicate the background layer

Step 3 : Fill the background layer with white.

Step 4 : Select your top layer and then on the channel box click on the "Load channel selection"

button. This selects all of the white, now click on delete.

Step 5 : Now select inverse ( Shft+Ctrl+I ) and fill with black. Now you have your line art only on the top layer .

2. Shading.

Step 5 : Now add another layer under the line art layer and fill with a shade of gray, we'll call it"base".

Step 6 : Add another layer on top of "base", we are going to Group this layer with the previous layer hit ctrl+G.

This makes it so you can do your shading on this layer without affecting your base layer, we'll call it "Shadow".

Note: You can also have a bunch of separate layer for each section for the bases, ie: skin, hair, it all depends on you.

So for example you can have skin as one base and a shadow and a highlight layer grouped with that layer, that's what I usually do.

Step 7 : Now paint all of the shading on your shadow layer .

Step 8 : Now we will add yet another layer on top of the Shadow layer and Group it as well, we'll call this

layer"Highlights". Now paint all of the highlights .

Step 9: so when you are done it should look something like this, minus the painted look. I may go into shading later on in a separate tutorial.