Hello, I wanted to say that I really like your art style, there aren't many cartoons that are as lively as yours anymore, but from a (barely) artist to another what do you use to scan your drawings? I'm slightly better at traditional art than at digital art and I can't find any good scanning methods.
Hope it's not a bother
Hi! Thank you so much for your kind words, it's very flattering to be told that my drawings feel lively like that x,)
About my scanning method, I don't do anything too special. My scanner is a CanoScan LiDE, I've had both a 210 and a 300 and they feel pretty similar to me? (I'm really not much of a nerd about image quality). They are quite basic, and both were under 100€.
The key relies in editing the scanned image. This process might be very different depending on what you're looking for and what your scan is giving you. With watercolour pieces like the ones I last posted, what I was trying to do was show the paper texture for that warm, traditional art feel, and the colours are just slightly tweaked to a warm palette as well, which I think added to this particular piece. So my process on PS was:
Copied my drawing layer twice, used one in Multiply and the other in Soft light, tweaked the opacity of both until I get more or less the intensity of the original colours of the piece.
Add a Levels adjustment layer to further help me with this goal. If you were trying to remove the texture of the watercolour paper from the white parts, this would probably be the step you can get it, but I'd advise against this unless you need to, because it can look a bit weird to see the texture on the coloured parts (this is pretty much unavoidable), but not on the white zones. Looks more natural when you leave it in all the piece, even if you can maybe soften it a little.
Apply image on a new layer and fix mistakes or weird areas here if you need to. I used the Clone stamp a lot on these pieces since I didn't leave enough white area around them, so I had to mask a lot by cloning the white texture area. This is also useful to make it look more unified.
Tweaked colours a bit with a Selective Colour Correction layer. This step might not be neccessary, but it's useful if you find that maybe just a certain blue is looking a bit off.
This could honestly be done in maaany different ways, mine's probably not the best at all, but it's where I've ended up for now hahah... Like I said, no magic, just playing with editing tools and knowing more or less what I'm looking for. Hope it's somehow useful?