I think it´s a good idea to create some master posts to gather all the information I have about some specific topics. I will update them from time to time.Here we go with the first compilation about Photoshop drawing, I hope you will find it useful 
Vectorial drawing in Photoshop (basic)
As you can see in the picture, this is a Photoshop inking without modulated lines, using vectorial drawing tools, from a traditional drawing. You have to create the strokes with Photoshop vectorial drawing tools, and then to contour them.
Advantages:
- You don´t need a vast knowledge of Photoshop.
- It´s very quick.
- It´s very clean.
Disadvantages:
- The appearance is quite basic, althought it will look better with color.
Vectorial drawing in Photoshop (advanced)
Quite similar to the previous one, but we create fill-in areas instead of lines. It´s always good to have a pencil sketch as starting point, though it´s not essential.
Advantages:
- The inking itself has a great streght, we can use it without color.
- The result is very clean.
Disadvantages:
- It takes quite a long time.
- It´s not very funny, and a bit uncomfortable in my opinion.
Hand made drawing in Photoshop with a Wacom Cintiq
With the mouse is practically impossible draw by hand, so you´ll need a pen tablet, which isn´t perfect either but it helps a lot. If you really want to make a good profit of this method you´ll need a
Wacom Cintiq (a monitor on which you can directly draw), out of reach for most pockets.
Advantages:
- It´s challenging, very funny.
- It´s very quick when you get used to it.
- Almost as sensitive as traditional drawing, but cleaner.
Disadvantages:
- The result is not as clean as using vectorial tools.
- You have to invest in hardware: a Wacom tablet, or a Wacom Cintiq if you can afford it.
Traditional drawing and retouching in Photoshop
If you´re good with pencil and paper this will be probably the most comfortable method for you. The key is to be very clean at drawing. Afterwards, with just a few retouches in Photoshop the line will be clean and well-defined. This way we´ll get an inking effect.
Advantages:
- Nothing as accurate as traditional pencils.
- You can skip the inking, it´s the same drawing retouched to make it look like ink.
Disadvantages:
- You must be very technical at drawing.
- The final inking is never as clean as the digital one, no matter how clean you can draw.
Other supporting tutorials
These aren´t tutorials specifically about drawing, but they follow the topic, besides they are very interesting to read:
Mascot design in Photoshop tutorial for Smashing Magazine
Character design Photoshop tutorial for PSDTuts
Character design Photoshop tutorial for PSDTuts (previo pago)
Basic principles of mascot design
Vectorial illustration with Illustrator
7 November 2008 at 4:52 PM
Pues te doy toda la razón querido Sergio, a veces resulta engorroso, que no complicado, encontrar algo, y estas recopilaciones me parecen una gran idea.
Tan buena me parece, que la aplicaré en mi blog, unificando artículos de temática similar.
Un abrazote y cuídate.
7 November 2008 at 6:54 PM
Muchas gracias Jopicar, me alegra que te guste la idea
10 November 2008 at 8:58 AM
Hola, sip soy la misma Adriana jeje, gracias por la recopilación, sigo practicando. Saludos!!
11 November 2008 at 4:10 PM
Hola sergio yo queria pedirte un favor s tienes tiempo un dia (o mes) de estos
, hacer un articulo con el paso a paso de cuand dibujas una mascota, siempre tus tutoriales ya vienen con el boceto a lapiz terminado, me gustaria ver como empiezan tus bocetos desde el primer rayonazo, si no es molestia, si no se puede ni modo, tengo curiosidad.. bueno chaito
11 November 2008 at 6:25 PM
Hola Adriana, deseo concedido
En realidad ya tengo algo sobre ese tema:
http://www.sosnewbie.com/es/diseno-mascotas/drunken-monkey-photoshop-tutorial/
Fíjate en las imágenes, hay una paso por paso.
En cuanto tenga un rato me pongo a capturar como lo hago en vivo y en directo.
Saludos.
20 November 2008 at 2:01 PM
Hola Sergio, yo te quería hacer una preguntilla:
Cuando le das a Google.com in English, ¿sería la misma versión de google que les sale a los norteamericanos?, me explico, que si
yo escribo el texto “web mascots design” y lo busco me saldría Sosfactory en 5º lugar, ¿esa sería la posición para una búsqueda hecha desde USA? Muchas gracias. Un saludo
20 November 2008 at 2:53 PM
Hola, mira estos dos enlaces:
Sosfactory:
http://sergitosuanez.deviantart.com/art/DJ-51493133
Wydstudios:
http://www.wydstudios.com/portfolio-2.php?var=14
¿que te parece?, creo que te han plagiado un poco.
20 November 2008 at 2:59 PM
A vale, ya me he dado cuenta que trabajais juntos, perdona, me callo. Saludos.
20 November 2008 at 9:44 PM
Hola Manu, no me hagas mucho caso sobre el tema de Google, pero creo que así es.
Sobre el tema de Lucas… ¿conoces eso de dar la mano y coger el brazo?. A Lucas le daba trabajo (maquetación web)además de darle muchos consejos hasta que descubrí estas “cosillas”. Es un plagio en toda regla.
11 December 2008 at 12:26 PM
That’s great great idea to gather and analyse all this!
Firstly when I found your tuts I didn’t know what method to choose – I have wacom, not bad with pencil, but what is faster/better… And finally the scheme is: scanned pencil sketch (not super-accurate, conceptual), then draw in Photoshop with tablet (brush + eraser:)) and only when I need to draw ideal shape on big areas I use Photoshop’s vector (stroke or fill).
Ekaterina
11 December 2008 at 4:25 PM
Im glad you like Ekatherina
Its exactly what I was doing before buying my Cintiq. If you can I suggest the 12″, its small but you really will start to enjoy.
13 December 2008 at 3:09 PM
Hola, ¿podrías publicar una imagen completa del personaje q está debajo del perro buldog? pues nunca lo había visto en sosfactory ni en tu blog. Gracias.
14 December 2008 at 9:38 AM
En mi cuenta de Deviantart tienes todas las imágenes: http://sergitosuanez.deviantart.com/gallery/
Saludos.
28 December 2008 at 6:25 PM
Hello
Your works are as allways very stylish and very pro.
But, as i’m a designer too and the same age as you. i Think that you fall in a designer problem known as “typing” which means you use the same style and features on your drawing.
exple: on the pictures above ,if you take a look on the eyes, they are nearly all the same design (in fact 2 types, round and oval).
let me advise you my friend. try to variate the characters style expl: disney style, simpson style, dragonball style.. and i’m sure you will be the dream of all communication boxes.
sheers.
1 January 2009 at 2:54 PM
Hello my friend, thanks a lot for the positive criticism.
I have think about this for long time,is good having a style well defined? or is better being more versatile?
I think for my business right now is better having a defined style, mainly because its what the clients ask and secondly because it makes the order quite straigh forward.
I can manage other styles anyway, its just this one sells better.
Cheers
Sergio
26 January 2009 at 1:35 PM
Hola Sergio!! Muy buena tu web, la verdad que siempre me ha sido muy útil.
Te escribo para hacerte una consulta. He leido que sos un asiduo usuario de silhouette, el plugg-in para illustrator. Y la verdad que yo también le había agarrado cariño… pero hace poco la opción free de silueteado en blanco y negro está ha quedado deshabilitada. Me gustaría saber si existe alguna otra aplicación similar que recomiendes o algún tipo de solución. Un abrazo grande! Y gracias por tu tiempo
29 March 2009 at 3:52 PM
Hola Sergio,
me gusta mucho tu estilo y de hecho me baso en tus mascotas cuando hago personajes institucionales, pero trato de imprimirles mi sello.
Tus tutoriales me ayudan a mejorar,tengo una Wacom Intuos y quiero aprender a hacer “digital inking” como tus tutoriales con wacom pero no se como usar bien los “brushes”, al menos no como tu, puedes decirme si tienes algun tutorial mas explicativo de como usar los pinceles.
Gracias
Jorge
PD metete a nuestra pagina Zeromonos.com
29 March 2009 at 8:13 PM
Hola Jorge,
Me temo que no hay nada que explicar, son los pinceles que trae Photoshop por defecto.
Entintar con una Intuos está complicado, tienes varias opciones: entintar a mano al estilo tradicional, entintar con las herramientas de dibujo vectorial o comprarte una Cintiq.
Saludos.
PS: por favor usa la versión del blog en español si vas a comentar en español.
12 April 2009 at 11:08 AM
teach me!
15 April 2009 at 12:15 AM
Creo q los q mejor te han plagiado han sido los de wydstudios jeje
18 April 2009 at 8:52 PM
Hola sergio realmente espectacular todo el contenido de la web. sino ubiese sido por mi papa que me paso el enlase este no estaria aca. segui asi.
Saludos desde argentina si sos español seguro sos de españa XD.
Segui asi capo.
27 April 2009 at 3:09 PM
Viejo que locura, tustrabajos son geniales
Me ayudan bastante
Gracias por este Blog
21 May 2009 at 4:32 PM
I’m trying to extract the lines for the retouching and I’m getting the message:
The object “layer Capa 1″ is not currently available.
???
21 May 2009 at 6:33 PM
Hello talos, it have something to do with the name of the layers, try renaming the layer to “Capa 1″.
22 May 2009 at 4:35 AM
Now it says the object background is not available !!
22 May 2009 at 9:10 PM
Its the same thing, just rename the layer.
If this doesnt work, click this link and download the action or do it manually: http://sergitosuanez.deviantart.com/art/Extract-lines-PS-action-17716531
Cheers.
Sergio
23 May 2009 at 4:42 AM
Doesn’t work.I’ve had enough.Forget it.
23 May 2009 at 8:21 AM
You are welcome
27 May 2009 at 9:19 AM
Nice compilation of different tecnhiques there Sergio
I have one method of doing inking which actually misses here, and which I’ve found quite useful myself:
First draw the contours with strokes in Illustrator, and after it’s done go to Object -> Expand (with the strokes selected) and do the thickness variations with the fill-in vectors. The result is clean and still in vectors, so one can also scale it if needed. This method is rather quick, too (took me a couple of hours for the first time).
10 June 2009 at 9:25 AM
NECESITO UN DIBUJO DE UN TORO
fuerte
con una cerveza
animado como el de kukuxumusu ( NO INFANTIL )
hablamos por correo: david_sergio_10_13@msn.com
7 September 2009 at 6:10 PM
how do you get the sharp end on teeth and corners? I only see brush on in your video.
7 September 2009 at 6:12 PM
What tutorial are you talking about?
7 September 2009 at 6:13 PM
and I dont understand how you bend a line. In the bottom teeth you draw a line and bend it down or something.
plz bring light in my dearkness
7 September 2009 at 6:28 PM
Buddy, if you don´t tell what is the tutorial and the part where you have doubts I hardly will be able to help you.
8 September 2009 at 2:51 AM
doh, shure, you can’t read my mind
I talk about “Hand made drawing in Photoshop with a Wacom Cintiq”.
May you can show the first video in normal speed or with some comments?
I can’t understand how you can make sharp edges with brush and eraser.
And it looks, live u bend some lines like with the pen tool.
Sorry my english, Im german and bad in english :/
8 September 2009 at 9:10 AM
Sorry, Youtube doesn´t allow longer videos, anyway its quite straight forward I just use default brushes. The key is using a Wacom Cintiq and an high resolution canvas.
12 September 2009 at 10:39 AM
:/ buenas este yo queria ayuda con la cuestion de la vectorizada es que trato de hacerlo como en la del perro y no puedo trato de hacer el fill path y en ves de que se ponga negro lo q quiero se pone negro l apantalla como hago para que no haga eso
12 September 2009 at 8:18 PM
Hola Melanie, asegurate que elegiste la herramienta correcta, echa un ojo: http://www.sosnewbie.com/imagenes/tutorial_dibujo_photoshop/pluma2.gif
12 September 2009 at 10:39 PM
T_T ouch xD no me habia percatado de eso
muchas gracias y me gusta com haces tus cercaiones estan muy buenas
13 November 2009 at 1:29 PM
wow, un racopilación genial, me van a venir de perlas estos tutos, muchas gracias!!
25 February 2010 at 12:26 AM
I like my line art, but only with the corel or illustrator.
I need to work with his technique. seems faster.
you are perfect, the king.
20 March 2010 at 7:57 PM
Hola Sergio
Te escribo para decirte que tus trabajos estan buenisimos y tus tutoriales mejor.
te queria pedir un favor podrias subir el link de el “Dibujo tradicional en photoshop” es que sale en tu vidoe un link que es este
http://www.sosnewbie.com/extractlines
…pero no funciona, podrias subirlo de nuevo ya que intento e intento y no puedo entrar,por favor
21 March 2010 at 9:41 PM
Hola Sebastian, prueba con este link: http://www.sosnewbie.com/descargas/extractlines.zip
Saludos