Before- After // Sketchbook scans touchups (Patreon)

Hey guys!! 💖

How are you doing? 

I'm still not drawing much due to my wrist pain and other stuff happening rn, but here's a single silly spread I managed to do this morning after a while, heh

I've been, however, editing and retouching scans of all my traditional art to make new prints :) 

Once I finish editing I usually delete the original scans but this time I thought it would be interesting to show you guys a comparison of the before and after ! I always receive many questions of how I edit them and the truth is, I just paint over them with a hard round brush, nothing else. Sometimes I move some parts with the lasso tool and erase some marks or details I don't like, then I just punch the colors up a bit adding more saturation and make the blacks deeper with the selective color tool from Photoshop. 

I'll definitely record the process next time I edit a drawing and show you guys how it goes from start to finish, just for extra clarification, if that's something that might interest you! And also because I want to normalize this process more, I received a bunch of messages on Instagram of people saying that they thought doing that was cheating! I couldn't believe it. Mixing traditional and digital mediums is just another technique, as valid as anything else. Giving your traditional drawings a digital glow up is absolutely valid (and quite satisfying) we can do whatever the hell we want with OUR art ✨

Anyways, I'll post more of these in the upcoming weeks!

Talk to you real soon,

Gret