Aaron Elmquist <ironranger@...125...> writes:
This is a newbie question.
How do most people use inkscape and other illustration programs?
Do they draw from scratch directly in the program, or do they create a rough
sketch to scan and import to provide some guidance?
Both methods are used, depending on what you want to do. Most of what I do with Inkscape is drawing icons, and I never scan artwork for that - at most, I doodle on a piece o paper and then rebuild it on the screen from scratch. But in the few times I did actual illustration works, I used scanned art, downloaded pictures and even a freehand drawing I made in Photoshop. I still remember "fondly" the time I spent vectorizing artwork in Adobe Illustrator, back in 2002. These were two rather complicated cartoons meant to be printed on T-shirts, and doing it was hell on earth. If only I had Inkscape at the time.