defining outline

[HybridHaylee]

Hello everyone, my name is Haylee. This is actually my first post and am staight away looking for advice 
So ok am making a fan comic of Fatsack with permission from Adam for my A levels,  and am struggling with the inital art work. Colour and blending am ok with, maybe background when i get round to it. But am struggling with outlines, looking over Adam's work and i cant get clean non dodgy curves around the characters.

Any advice with it, how does everyone else do it

[chluaid]

Hi Haylee, welcome to the woods!
Are you using Flash? Flash's brush strokes are pretty unpredictable at the best of times, but it's partly about practising line control and partly about using tools to make your lines look better. For me in Flash, I draw with my brush smoothing on 20, which makes for a pretty knotty line, but then when the drawing is complete, I select the whole thing and optimise it (Ctrl Alt Shift C) on a low setting. I actually have this process bound to a shortcut key, so when I finish a drawing, I select it and hit my optimise shortcut a few times until it starts looking nice.

In ToonBoom, I find the brush strokes don't require quite as much maintenance, but I can still smooth the line with Alt Shift S. One or two passes of that is generally sufficient.

As for Photoshop, I have no idea how to smooth brush strokes after they're drawn, so uh.. I don't use Photoshop much 

Hope this helps and good luck!

[Copper Valentine]

Ah, what a nice little nugget of info. Thanks Adam 

[HybridHaylee]

this was a big help and i actually like the way flash smooths the drawing for you but.......
since i have been working in photoshop am needing to import the drawing in to photoshop which doesnt make good quailty if am print screening.

Is there a way to get that effect from flash to photoshop? this would be really helpful

and adam a VERY VERY impressed that you do your drawings in flash! how do you animated them?