Inking self-traced lines

Inking drawings

Inking self-traced lines

You can recolor a line bordering a region so that the region remains intact but the line is no longer seen; this produces a self-traced line:

Choose the color you want to ink the line with; use one of the colors in the regions that border on the line.

Select the Freehand Inkbrush tool.

Choose ink display mode in the Painting window.

Ink over the line; zoom in if necessary to work on the detail.

Check the appearance of the drawing using draft display mode.

In ink display mode, the trace lines are shown in the default color, usually black. As you color the lines to make them self-traced, these lines are shown in the colors you inked them with.

When you ink with the Ink tool, only the trace lines are affected; the painted regions are left unchanged. As you move the Ink tool over the line, a thick line of ink is left behind; when you finish the stroke and lift the pen or release the mouse button, the thick line disappears and the ink is applied to the original line only.

The finished line is now colored with the same color as one of the regions on either side of it. In the final output, the line will not be visible. You can check how it looks by selecting the draft display mode.

Inking drawings

Inking self-traced lines