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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      0:47

    • 2.

      What & why

      2:01

    • 3.

      Tools

      2:59

    • 4.

      Pencil to Paper

      8:27

    • 5.

      iPad Sketching on Procreate

      11:34

    • 6.

      iPad Sketching with Adobe Illustrator

      11:11

    • 7.

      Tracing

      7:32

    • 8.

      Scanning

      7:51

    • 9.

      Thank you

      0:44

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About This Class

Unlock the full potential of your sketches with our Sketch to Scanner class! Designed for artists and designers of all levels, this comprehensive course will take you from the initial pencil strokes, using inks and utilising your iPad. Dive into the creative process, refine your techniques, and learn how to seamlessly transition your art from paper to screen.

What You’ll Learn:

  • Fundamental Sketching Techniques: Master the basics of sketching, from line work to shading, ensuring your foundation is solid.
  • Inking and Detailing: Discover methods for inking and enhancing your sketches to bring out the finer details.
  • Effective Scanning: Learn how to scan your artwork with precision, capturing every nuance and detail for a high-quality digital transfer.

Why You’ll Love This Class:

  • Step-by-Step Guidance: Each lesson is designed to be clear and easy to follow, making the creative process enjoyable and accessible.
  • Insider Tips and Tricks: Gain valuable insights and professional tips that I use in my own work, helping you to elevate your art.
  • Engaging Projects: Work on exciting projects that will keep you motivated and inspired throughout the course.
  • Bonus: Free monthly prompts to download.

By the end of this class, you’ll have the skills and confidence to transform your hand-drawn sketches into polished digital artworks ready for any creative project. Let’s embark on this artistic journey together and bring your sketches to life in the digital world!

If you are excited to take the next steps to learning how to utilise your iPad to digitise your work, then check out my class: Vectorize your sketches with your iPad

My other classes are also listed below and linked:

Pattern Layouts: From Start to Finish

iPad Drawing Floral Motifs in Adobe Illustrator App

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Kirsty Salter

Illustrator & Surface Pattern Designer

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Kirsty is an Illustrator, Surface Pattern Designer and Teacher. Her work is inspired by florals and natural colour palettes, she is always taking walks foraging for new pieces to add to her work and taking photos for her next colour palettes. She has always loved teaching and has thrived at teaching skills to creatives that are looking to develop their own work and themselves inside and out. Kirsty lives in the beautiful city of Hobart in Tasmania, Australia where she never misses her week walks to gather new ideas for her upcoming work. She loves collaborations and getting to work with inspiring designers that this world has thriving within it. Kirsty's work is driven by her desire to leave something beautiful behind for anyone who loves bright and beautiful designs. Follow along with ... See full profile

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1. Introduction: Hi, I'm Kristi, and I'm a circus Peg designer and teacher. I have been creating for five years, designing and teaching in the creative industry. My goal is to keep learning and to share what I have learned. I love a community that shares with each other in which us as creators are not scared to show our vulnerable selves to each other. We are all wanting to grow. Otherwise, you and I would not be here. I hope you enjoy this class. Take it as some fun. And if you are looking for more, check out my other classes within the links in this course. Thank you for joining me today and I hope you have fun. 2. What & why: Within this class, I'm going to show you the different ways you can create your work to use at the end for digital usage. This class will run through the different techniques I use to create elements for my own designs. If you're new to the world of creating work for the end goal of using them digitally, don't fear. You're not the only one. There is a community out there that share the same unknowns. I pass on some confidence and fun while we run through simple steps in creating sketches from free hand to using tracing paper and to using an apple iPad pro. Okay There are certain tips that I can advise when it comes to using either methods that I showed today. Make sure that your lines are thick enough to be visible. The pens I referenced within this course worked very well for the effects but I'm after. But you may find that for your style, you would need to use something different. We're all unique work test and try. When you are scaling your work on either method, be sure it is big enough for your finer details to be picked up on your scanner. If they are too small, they tend to get lost when scanned and all that beautiful effort can be lost when you digitize it. If you are struggling for an idea of what to create to follow along with this class, then check out the link in the buyer from my list of prompts to help inspire you along with some extra images. This whole class is designed to being fun and to taking the steps that you may not be 100% sure on and refining them. And you may even pick something up new. So let's get started and that to the next module. Okay. 3. Tools: The class today, I'll be using the tools I've listed here today. These tools I use are my favorites. You can use whichever tools you choose from paint to charcoal. Just remember that work needs to be visible enough for when you scan your ending work to digitize. Now, here's a list of the main tools I use. Now, I use D pencils, which are favorite of mine. I tend to use the HBO B. The other thing I like to use is a black rubber. I feel it's really effective in removing any marks that I actually place on there and want't removed. I was a complete skeptic, but I got changed and I tried one out, and I have noted back since to give it. The other pencil I use is a unipen sign. I use the 0.1 and 0.5. In regards to pix, I really love the Windsor Newton A four. For years, I've stuck with this same note for brand, and I have now dozens of them. So just a go. Just Sandy tracing paper, A four, Masking tape if you've got it. And any images you find from a magazine or even just printed off your printer. I mean, that's a big thing that I tend to do. I tend to actually take photos when I'm walking around the local gardens or even when I'm basically walking into ten, there's a beautiful rose garden, which I tend to take a dozen photos off and then print on my printer and then either hand draw on free hand or I trace, depending on what effect I'm really after. In regards to the more of the technical side, I will be using today my Apple Macbook Air and 15 inch, 16 gigabyte if anyone was interested. My Apple iPad 11 inch with Apple Pencil. I'll be using Procreate program, which costs 1999 and Australian dollars for Aussies out there. A Illustrator, which is basic provided by adobe, which comes at a cost of 32 $99,000,000,000,000 a month. It's not too bad. And if you're utilizing that program regularly, then it's a big win. My printer scanner, it's nothing special. It's not big and it's not expensive. I think I bought it for about 300 Australian dollars. It's a canon, TS 9,560. The big thing for me was that it had good settings in when you go to scan, you can change the DPI and that sort of site. So it's not fancy, and you don't need to fork out dollars and dollars for a really good scanner to get the effects you're after. 4. Pencil to Paper: Now, I do love being traditional. For my first time in school, I love to draw and paint. All the way to high school, art and design was my favorite class. Even to this day, I love to sit and sketch out in the open in the fresh air to grab any elements that come and motivate me to sketch. My favorite tools I've used for years and haven't really gone astray since I landed here in Australia in 2012. Now, these are all elements that I have created using the same technique that I'm going to show today. These were all started off using pencil. And then I went over the top with my fine line pen, and then I raised the pencil marks out. Now, for this class today, I'm going to show you the finishing steps that I use. Now these are two roses that I created that I just eyeballed off a picture of a rose that I had taken. Now, I really like doing this, especially if I've got a moment to myself, I can just focus on the image that I have and create how I see it. Now you can see on this one, there are a few lines which I've rubbed out, but I haven't properly rubbed them out because I'm not at the final stage. I tend to do most of the erasing or rubbing out after I've put on the pen. Now the two pens I'm going to use here for this section is the unipenFin line, which is the 0.5, and the same brand, same style, but 0.1. The 0.1 is a lovely. It's very fine. I love that for a lot of the detail. I use that really let me see if I can find it for you. I use the 0.1 for my owl which is part of a collection that I'm about to launch. As you can see, it really grabs a little bit of the details and it's not too thick. If I need to thicken up any sections, I can just go over it again with the 0.1. 0.5 is slightly bigger. I really like I find with the 0.1 because it's quite a fine nib. You have to be very delicate when you're going along the line. You can't press too hard. Where there's a lot more give with the 0.5. I'm just going to go ahead and I'm just going to do what I normally do, there's no difference from any other day that I do this really. Now, the biggest thing I always remind myself that it doesn't matter if I may not exactly on the lines. When you start learning illustrator and getting more technical on the digital side, you can easily amend those. But if you're not that way, te Savvy who's yet, don't worry. It's all the learning process. We've all got to start somewhere. Now, that's as much detail as I want to add in for this one. Now, I'm just going to show you the next step that I utilize. Now, this is the infamous black razor or rubber depending on where you are in the world. I'm absolutely in love with this one. I have been using it for four years. I got shared a little video from someone using a black razor and I was questioning, surely, it leaves marks on your paper, but it doesn't. It is awesome. I'm just going to go over this sketch. I'm just going to remove all of the pencil marks. Okay. As you can see, after I've removed all the pencil marks, you can see how really nice and detailed it is. The fine lines of the 0.1 have really come out really well and it's just really nice and clean. So when it comes to actually scanning in, there shouldn't be a problem with getting any of that information. I can do the same here with this as well, but I'm going to use the 0.1 for the whole of it. I'm going to do the same thing again. I'm just going to remove all the pencil marks. Okay. And there you go. There is my my two roses, I should say. Created by that technique. 5. iPad Sketching on Procreate: There was one thing that I always carry with me, and that is why IPad P. It's been a saving grace for times when I have had to wait for an appointment or find myself summer with time to spare. The Apple iPad Pro has been a lifesaver for me creatively from note taking, checking e mails, and being able to create my elements for my designs while I'm on the go. I'm a mom of two beautiful boys, so I am squeezing everything I can into my creative work when I get the time. One of the key applications I utilize is procreate. Design here in beautiful Tasmania. This app is so fun to use with so many brushes and a great choice. The other application that I use on my iPad is adobe illustrator. It obviously works using vector, which is pretty much where I sit in my little nice when I create my patterns. Between these two great applications, I have got them in my handbag haver I keep them. For this part of the class, I'm going to show you how I utilize procreate to be able to create my elements. So from here, I'm going to go and find an image that I've taken that I want to sketch. So I'm just going to go up to the little bit up here. I'm actually going to a good turn. My brightness a little bit, make it easier for the camera. And then I'm just going to go to the little spanner here and then click Add. Then I'm going to click Insert Photo. Now, this automati links into my photos. So I've got an album here that I use. And here's where I basically say any images of things that I've taken photos of. So as you can see, there's quite a few images of flowers that I've taken roses. This is actually my next door neighbor's house who has an absolute beautiful array of roses at the front of the house. So These are photos from our local botanical gardens, and I think I'm actually going to pick. Which one should I go? Let's go. This one. Now, it's imported that photo in. It's in good size. What you can do if you want it bigger, you can grab these little blue corners and just stretch them out. And then to deselect it to get rid of this lines and to not have to worry about it, unclick that little. Now, the way procreate works, it works in layers, very much like illustrator and photoshop. And what it means is that one image is sitting on this one paleted layer. So if I'm going to put anything on top of this image, it needs to be on top of this layer. And I'll just give you an example. If I click on this and then Let's say I pick I'll go to some of my resets, and then I'll pick on a color. Let's say I go on a bright yellow, and I'm just going to go over to this side here, and this side here is basically like the different size of your stroke. So you can see here it's saying that 100% that's as big as that can go. And this is the opacity. So if I want this color to be half the strength, then I can adjust that here. But to show you what layers is, is that That line there. It's on its own layer. But if I was to grab and drop that under, you can't see it anymore because it is under that layer. So just keep that in mind. Now, I'm just going to pop this up here. I'm actually just going to delete that layer. Now, the sole purpose here is for me when I'm creating. Especially if I want to create work that I want to digitally sell or promote. I'm wanting to sketch that. I tend to go to. As I said before, we're all different, you may actually like syrup, which is just a procreate standard. But for me, I like to go to sketching and I do like to just jump to the pencils. I don't know why I just like the effect that it comes through. Or my other one is There is if I go to favorites, I can find it there she is. If I go to favorites here, I really like how this one comes out too. It's called Jasinki Inc. I'm going to go here, and then I'm just going to click actually over to the colors. For me, I'm going to pick in the disc section. If I bring that down to here, I really like for my sketch to be quite bright because when I go to export this and then digitally utilize it, for instance to vectorizer in illustrator, I want that color to be sharp. Like I said at the beginning of this class, we need our scans to be strong vibrant and a good contrast. The next thing I need to do is this image here. We need that to be not as strong. I mean, I could literally go ahead and sketch on top of it. But to make my life more easier, I'm going to click on this image, and I'm going to click this little N. And that end comes up with all these different color sets. But what I'm going to do is I'm more interested in the opacity. I want to drop that opacity down, not a huge amount, but just enough so that when I come to going onto my drawing layer, If I start here. This is how it comes up. You can see there's plenty of details still being left for me to be able to sketch. And, as I've said before, the iPad is great to allow for us creators to still be able to jot down work and create elements that we spotted that day. If you're still working full time, being able to grab that lunch break and create a new element that could be for a new postcard or a new greeting card. New fabric collection that you've got working on. The world creative selection is massive. And no one's stopping you from creating art work. So the only person that can be in your way is, as I always say to my husband, I'm the only one that can get in the way of what I want to do. No, I'm just going assume out here. And I'm pretty happy with that. That's quite nice. I mean, obviously, I'm probably not going to have this element with bright red outline. But for me, this is just so that when I go to digitize it, and if I go ahead and do my vectorizing, and image trace through illustrator. It will pick up these lines, and then I'll be able to color in this, add shading to it so many options. No, no, finish that. I'm just going to go up here, and I want to have a look at how that actually looks, you know? Am I happy with it? Do I need to remove anything? So to do that, I'm just going to click the tick here actually removes it. And that gives me a better look at how the elements come out. I'm actually really happy with that. There's a lot more color I can add in once I actually digitize it, but in regards to the desired effect. I really like that. Now, in regards to exporting this so that you can loop to use it on any digital products or anything like that. The way to do that is we go back to this little spanner. So I'm going to click that share. And then for me because I'm planning to I like to export it both in JPG and as a PNG. The reason for that is, if I export it as a PNG and it's too fine. Sometimes some of the little elements can get a little bit lost, it's mainly a time saber for me. So I like to have both the JPEG and PNG saved so that I can come back to it. And if one doesn't image trace well, then at least I can pull the JPEG or the PNG, depending which way I'm going. So if we go just the JP And then I'm just going to save that image. And then if I just go my photos here and there it is. Nice and easy. So let's move on to Adobe Illustrator. Okay. 6. iPad Sketching with Adobe Illustrator: Now let's look at Dob Illustrator. Now, this program is a favor as my designs are vector, and I find it offers a great starting place, especially when I utilize my own photography for my designs. So the next thing we're going to be looking at is Adobe Illustrator. Now, if you haven't already got it on your iPad, you can go to the Apple store. This is a symbol, and you can download it from there. You will need a subscription for this. So it's normally if you're paying monthly, I think it's around about $40, or you can go on a yearly agreement, which I think is around about 32 99 and Australian dollars. I pretty much all of my work is done within Adobie illustrator and for all my patterns. I find it such a great platform for what I do in regards to creating patterns, creating my elements. And yeah, it's kind of like my go to home at the moment. So Now, I've just clicked it. I've just gone into the program, and this is what it looks like when it first opens up. Don't worry. You don't see all of these. This is in a way my work space. This is previous files that I've opened up. And yeah, this is just basically in a way my history. So I'm just going to come down here and we're going to start a new file. So I'm just going to click Create New. Now, we are just sketching or in a way, we are tracing an image. So I don't need my upboard to be a specific size. So I'm just going to click A four and click Create file. Now, the first thing I want to do is we want to bring in the photo. So I'm going to go to the little photo icon. Click photos. I'm just going to select that rose again. Now, I am going to just make it a bit bigger for me. And then I am just also going to just have a look at. Yeah, I'm pretty happy where that is. And it's the same with it's the same with Procreate as it is an illustrator. I really want to adjust the opacity of this image. Now to do that, we've got a little sort of toggle tools here. And on that allows me to bring down the opacity again. So I'm just going to drop that down. I think I'm pretty happy with that. And then I'm going to go over to the pencil tool, which is just over here. Now, I want to make sure my colors are right. I want to make sure that I don't I'm obviously going to have a form of color. But I don't want to have a film. And you can see, I've just clicked on here. And this is the fill. And I don't want any fill right now. What I want to have is I just want to have a nice gray to actually will go. I'll do the same as Procera. I have a nice strong red, but I needed to be the stroke. And to do that, just a little flicky button. And what I mean by the filling stroke is, if I do a circle. You see Illustrator is filling in, with the color. Whereas if I switch that around. It makes the line, the color, which is quite thin, so we're just going to thicken that up a bit. Probably, but there is nice. Then you can see this. But if I flick that over to fill, it fills that in as a circle. Now, this works really well depending on what you're trying to achieve. And I'll just show you. So I'm going to do the same thing as before. Go to zoom in, but I'm actually going to change the color I'm going to have. So I'm actually going to use. Let's go with Maybe button there. Maybe I'll come a bit more hotter pinch. That seems a bit nice to make sure I'm on the pencil tool. And then I'm just going to do exactly what I did in Procreate. So I'm just going to sketch. I create my lines. And I don't worry. You can't see them too much your lines because we can edit this. Illustrator Illustrators a lot more flexible that if you draw something and it is very thin or is very thick. You can change that. Whereas with procreate, if you draw a line and it is not thick enough. Then you have to go back over it again. It doesn't have that flexibility. It is literally taking you back to in a way, hand drawing. So I guess that's the real big appeal with Procreate. It brings you more towards the natural elements of sketching and drawing and painting. That illustrated doesn't really connect you to. But I'm just going to go along here. And what I'm trying to achieve here with this flower is I don't want it to be too detailed. I'm not trying to copy every single curve of this flower. I want to just grab some of the elements because it's the whole element in itself, not the individual sections that I really want to work. Let's talk. What I'm going to do here. By flicking to my layers, you can see that our layers panel has got lots and lots going on here. And what I'm going to do here is I'm just going to the selection. And what I'm going to do is I'm just going to Oops. Excuse me. Sorry. I'm just going to be. Just moved my rose. One thing I did forget to mention, and it's my error and apologies to stop that image moving around. If you click on the image, you'll see on this tool bar on your iPad, there's a little padlock. Just lock it down. We can unlock it later, but it just means what I'm about to do right now, I'm not going to grab it if that makes sense. So I'm just going to Grab all those lines I've made. All those vector lines, I should say about being more technical, and then click Join. A group, which is this little box here. And what that does is it basically grabs all those little elements together. So, I want to click on one, it clicks on on. And you can see here it shows us a group as well. If we want to remove the locking on this image, you can just come to your lyris panel and just remove that little padlock. You just click on it and unlock. The next step, which I'm going to do because this is already digitized. Like, this isn't I don't need to scan this in. This is digitized. I can go ahead and scale this up ten times larger or ten times smaller. This is the great thing about Adobe Illustrator. But what I want to do is I'm just going to show you how you don't have to just do lines and to sketch your element. But what I'm going to do is, I'm just going to deselect this, and I'm just going to go with my pencil. Now, I really want to sort of incorporate some of the color from here, so I'm going to click the little color copier here. I'm just saying that's that color, but I really want to mom want a similar color but a softer color. Oh, what you? Gonna go Here. And what I want to do is I want to basically add color to this. So how I'm going to do that is. I'm just going to go around it. Now, there's no color filling right now. And the reason for that is, I really like to change it from stroke to fill after I done this. The reason for that is as you're drawing, it sort of half fills it in as you go, and it can actually cover quite a bit of the image, which then obviously makes it a little bit tricky when you're trying to finalize or trying to stick to a specific line. So I'm just going to let go there. And then here, I'm just going to flip this over. Now, that's appeared over the top, but that's okay because we're going to go to the layers panel. And then we're going to drop that. Down. And you can see my lines have come in. Now, when we go back to what I said about your lines being small or sorry, thin. If you want to make them bigger, if you go to this little settings tool here, you can come here to your stroke. And then you can just adjust that. To a stroke that you're happy with. And another thing I like to do is I like to round off my edges, so and I like them to sort of have a softer. Luke. And then what I'm also going to do is I'm going to untoggle That image, and I'm also going to remove it. And there you go. That is my rose digitized. Just from a photo, it's funny that we can quickly do that. I mean, that was it. I mean, if I wasn't trying to teach this, it would probably take me about a minute to get to this part. But it doesn't take long at all, and that is digitized work. So, yeah, that's working with adobe illustrator. 7. Tracing: Now, before I take you to my favorite window in my little studio, I just wanted to show you basically the pictures that I'm going to be utilizing today to show you how I trace. Now, I've printed off two images here that I have taken during one of my work during one of my walks through the botanical gardens here in Tasmania. And I'll just try to capture basically as much of the flowers as possible. The pictures aren't fantastic. My printer is not having a great time and the guides to color. Luckily, I don't do any of my confessional printing in hubs. So I printed off to. I'll pick when I go to the window to basically decide which one I'm going to sketch. And this one here is just to show you an example. Now, this is the tracing paper that I use. But it's mainly to show you sort of what you get from it. It allows me to really get a follow through on the lines. Now, this obviously doesn't relate to this image because I've never traced these at all, but I'm really excited too, because especially with these flowers, there's a lot of design and elements so I could really get and hone in for my style. But this is really sort of the end result you're after. And with most scanners, they should have a white backing on them, but if not, when you go to scan, just remember you may need a white bit of paper on the back of them when you scan. When we go to Ashley lay it up into the window. This is this is just a standard bit of a tracing paper. And what we're going to end up doing is placing it directly on top of the image and placing this on a window so the natural light filters through on the paper through so that I can trace on the window. So let's go and see how that looks like. This is actually just my garden, so it is my favorite window to look at and also view out So natural light is what we're after here. We're basically wanting the strength of the natural light from outside to shine through on the image that we're going to place on the window today. So I'm just going to redo my camera so you can get the best look while I actually attach these onto the window and then start doing my elements, drawing onto the tracing paper. So I'm just going to attach on my image. Now, I've gone and picked these beautiful flowers. And what I've done is I've just lined the top up with some masking tape. Now, you can use any masking tape. My husband's a boat builder, so this was lying around. So we have a lot of these rolls left over, like, probably about a meter or two left on the rolls, which he can't use, so they end up at home with me. So I'm just going to stick them up. The It doesn't need to be exactly horizontal. At the end of the day, it's not going to affect the work as such. So that's it there. Now you can attach tape on the bottom corners. But the reason I haven't done so far is that I'm going to come over here and I'm going to put directly on top. My tracing paper here. And then the bottom corners have a little bit of masking tape as well. So Okay. And there we go. You can't really tell this tracing paper on there. But that's the whole point because we're basically trying to get as much of the detail through here. Now, I'm just going to just go with the flow and how I basically would sketch this out. Everyone's unique, everyone's different. If you follow this, you could feel free to follow the same techniques I utilize. But I think we're all unique and unique characters. I'm just going to go ahead and do what I normally do. Now, a lot of my style. I try not follow elements. To exact. I like to sort of add my own vision if I could put it that way on how they look. The D. So there you've got three elements. Now, if I just remove this masking tape from if I could get it off my window. If I remove these slick this up. And this. You can see here. I've got my little sketches. Now, I can add more detail to these, or I can just leave them zs. I'm actually pretty happy with these how they've come out. I wanted one that had a bit more detail, and then I wanted it to filter through. So this one had a little bit more detail and then this one, not so much. So yeah. So that's how I tend to go through the process when I want to trace my work. I find that this one's a bit more My elements come out a little bit more rougher, but I like that for quite a few of my elements, especially if I've got ones that are quite detailed and the wines are very, very descriptive, if I could put it that way. And I'd like to sort of merge these sort of elements in with that. So yeah, pretty happy. 8. Scanning: Now, scanning and what machine you need has been a big question that I have been asked. In all honesty, my scanner is not expensive. It's part of my printer and only fits a four pieces of paper. The main thing to remember is it's about the settings that you select when you go to scan it using your computer. Let's get technical. DPI stands for dots per inch, which defines the number of dots within each inch of a printed document, also known as DPI resolution. If you're familiar with DPI, always aim for higher values to ensure better print quality. You're basically grabbing more detail from whichever you're scanning. Firstly, make sure that the resolution where you are scanning is set to at least 400 DPI or higher. I always tend to pick 600. The more detail I can grab can only be a bonus. If your scanner allows for you to manually change the brightness and contrast of the scan, then I'm advised to make the colors be vibrant and the contrast be as strong as possible. Mine printer doesn't allow for this, so I do a little bit of editing prior to scanning my work. If you make it this far, it would mean a lot to myself and the following community to see what you create and how far you got within this class. If you're comfortable to show your work, please upload your final design to the class projects. Now let's look at how scanning looks on your computer. Okay. Now, I'm just going to share my screen and just give you an idea of how I go through the process of scanning my sketched elements. Now here, I've got a sketch that I completed, and this is being created the exact same way as what I've done previously with sketching out in pencil, then going over the top with a fine line pen. I think I used 0.1 for this one, and then raised all the pencil markings to clear it up for scanning. Now, here on the right, it's got a few settings. Like I said before, my printer is fancy and either is my scanner. It's just one whole device. It's there's not even a modern one, so it's nothing fancy and the settings are actually quite basic. For here, the scan mode is flatbed and that is basically the flat section of your scanner. Because mine is connected to a printer, you can basically have it where you apply a piece of paper to the side of it and it draws it in through the machine and it scans it that way. To be honest, I've never got a great effect when I've gone through that method, and I really like keeping my sketch books together. I don't like pulling the pages out. I use the flat bed all the time. Now, if you're using watercolor paints or any form of color, I normally tend to use color because if you want to bring in, especially with any watercolred art, the actual textures and effects you get once you digitize it are pretty amazing. But obviously, for this one, I'm going to be going black and white. Now, this resolution here, this is what I talked about in the last section of my class. This is really important. If we scanned it is 75, the actual JP would be very small and when we would scale it up, we'd lose a lot of the resolution, a lot of the major detail within our artwork. For me, when my process is I go automatically straight to 600 and that will make the file big enough to retain as much information when it scans. Okay. The sections here, the sizes, and anything like that, I don't touch them at all. I don't feel the need to. If I want to rotate my scan, I can, but I just don't see the need. I can do that all with an illustrator. Auto selection is if I turn this on closing box, what that does is it basically grabs the element it can find within that scan. What I tend to do is I will hover over these little circles. Once it turn red for me, means I can adjust them. I tend to just pull them in, so I'm not over scanning and getting bits that I'm not really going to be utilizing. And just check top and bottom, pretty happy with that. It changes here to detect enclosing box. Just checking it over, I may actually just pull this away from the edge there. Yeah. Happy with that. Now, scan two is where this file where your actual scanned file is going to end up, where it's going to save two. I've already got that selected here, and then you can give it a unique name. I can just scan f. Format, I always do a JPEG. I don't see the need to really change it to anything else in my options, T PNG or JPEG 2000 or a PDF. PDF they're a lot bigger and especially when you're working with online storage, you want to really not have too bigger files because before you know it you're paying thousands for online storage. And that's really it. My image correction doesn't work on my printer or scanner as soon as I basically try and open this, it crashes my scanner software. But this doesn't even work. I don't really have any options on my scanner. Like I've said before, it's really basic. For me. This is the amount of work because I do a lot of recoloring within Adobe illustrator. This is really the way I go. If I do some watercolor, then I do all of these settings exact same way. Apart from this is down to color, and that's it. Okay. So that is how I set up my scanner. Now, like I said before, your scanner will probably be set up a lot differently. So just read your operations manual and work through that on that side. And if you've got any questions, please just pop them in the class notes. I'm more than happy to try and help if you've got any issues with your scanner. I've always dreamed about being able to just travel and have a portable scanner and not really have the need to have a big bulky printer. But so far, I am still located in Tasmania and I don't see myself moving anywhere far. And I really like the location of my studio, so everything's pretty happy. If you get to this part of the class, please, please upload what you've scanned. I'd love to see the results of one you created R and two the actual ending product of your scanned work. 9. Thank you: Once you've scanned your elements, it's exciting part of digitizing your creations and cleaning them up. If you're interested in vectorizing your work, check out my other class, vectorize your sketches with your iPad. The links in the bio, check it out. I just want to say a big thank you for joining me today and taking my class. It means a lot and I'd love to see your ending projects, if you could upload them and even just put a bit of feedback would be fantastic. I'm excited to see what you come up with and thank you again for joining me today.