Guys,
Here is a way to create the line art for your sprites using a scanned sketch.

Here is the sketch I scanned:


Then I resize it:


I then increase the brightness and contrast to get a better definition of the lines:


After that I do the cleaning. Making sure that the lines are one pixel wide.


If you want to create organic looking sprites try to avoid this:




The lines should look like this:


This is the finished lineart:


I hope this helps ;)

really useful tutorial,
might gonna use it for my
sketches.

by the way, i remember
i was suggesting a subforum for
sketches corner to put on Pixel.
(you can find the topic with poll
on the 'sugestions' forum)

i guess most of Pixel members agrees with it
(majority of the votes resulted 'YES').....

i might add the sub forum sooner or later.
and also i might add a sketches-to-pixel
activity into it.

Thanks teej,
I hope other people will find it useful too. :)

Ok how i could i forget that i could scan and then pixel it :o But great tutorial :)

Wow! Awesome! Im so going to do this!

if i was any good at sketching, id probably try out this method, they way it worked out for you was quite stunning

Well Gimpy,

It can be somebody else's sketches. Let's say you have a friend that's good at sketching. You can transform his/her sketches into lineart. ;)

oh heyyyyyyy that would be cool, im gonna go do that

Great Tut I have to try it..

Thanks sokoto, I hope it will be of use. ;)

Great tutorial. Ill make a sprite soon.

Thanks Sohashu. I'm looking forward to see what you will come up with.

Sorry about the wait. Ill try and be done soon. Just have not found the time.

Great tut,..... now i just ogtta fix my scanner =S