# Artists!
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/artists/5609
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [September 17, 2002, 3:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/artists/5609 "2002-09-17T15:25:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@chris9902](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/chris9902)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2002, 3:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/artists/5609/1 "2002-09-17T15:25:58Z")
can anyone do really good line drawings.
you no were you have a picture and make a new layer then make a line drawing of it.
if you can and would like to help me line draw over a car picture for my new Grand Theft Auto site i would really love for you to reply
PLZ
thanks in advance
Chris
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2002, 4:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/artists/5609/2 "2002-09-17T16:52:11Z")
Well I haven’t ever tried it because I have nothing to try it on. I am sure I wouldn’t be too good at it though. Here is a link to a tutorial on line art in Flash.
[http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/lineart.asp](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/lineart.asp)
It is a very good tutorial. The process is time consuming though.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2002, 11:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/artists/5609/3 "2002-09-17T23:29:29Z")
Just finished a project copying & “cleaning” a series of scanned line art.
I’d be happy to have a look at your project.
If it was my project I would use illustrator to draw the image(s) then import into flash (if the project requires it).
Cheers,
ianc7
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2002, 11:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/artists/5609/4 "2002-09-17T23:32:55Z")
i got the pictures i want made into line drawings, they are quite complex like people and cars and \*\*\*\* but i really can not do this
i just cant keep the mouse straight
if you want to help plz reply
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2002, 3:46am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/artists/5609/5 "2002-09-18T03:46:42Z")
if the images are online post the url or email me at [i.chisholm@shaw.ca](mailto:i.chisholm@shaw.ca) and then we can talk about what needs doing and how.
Cheers,
Ian C.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2002, 9:03am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/artists/5609/6 "2002-09-18T09:03:15Z")
I’ll give it a try as well, I’ve had a bit of practice. 🙂
And don’t worry about not keeping your mouse steady, you don’t have to draw ‘freehand’ as it were, just use the line tool to define a start and finish point for the line, then curve it a little. If you had to draw freehand then I for one would be totally screwed. 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2002, 3:41am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/artists/5609/7 "2002-09-19T03:41:00Z")
direct selection tool (or its equal) is your friend.
Cheers,
ianc7
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2002, 2:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/artists/5609/8 "2002-09-19T14:58:53Z")
or cheat by tracing the image and then scanning it in !
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2002, 1:09am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/artists/5609/9 "2002-09-20T01:09:55Z")
Yeah but then it is still a bitmap that’s going to go jaggy/blurry if scaled too far.
Sorry, I don’t buy into using autotrace functions as I have yet to see one that works well enough although I’m sure that they are in the pipe and I eagerly await their arrival. Mind you I have not tried the latest version of Streamline but found earlier versions to be less than useful.
Cheers,
Ianc7