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Because so much of you like it heres a wee tutorial that im writing as i draw this 
http://rsdesign.fortnet.co.uk/dev/pics/theboys.gif
::Using Adobe Photoshop 7::
Creating the lines::
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First create a blank document of your desiered size, i usaly use 1280*1024.
Next thing to do is paste in your desider photo graph and scale it to be as large as possible and take up the whole area if feasablie.
Now create a new layer and name is "Black Line"
Using the pen tool, select free forum mode and set the "curve fix" to 5px. Use the pen tool to folow the lies on your picture and then follow them back around again. So each line that you want black is the area enclosed between the pen lines.
Now make sure you have selected the "Black Line" layer and right click anywhere on your picture and select "Fill Path". Use black on Normal mode with 100% opacity. Now right click again on the drawing and select "Delete Path"
Now you can either do all your pen lines from the start then fill them all black at once but i find that i just do a line at a time each time filling it black and seeing how it looks.
Creating the colour::
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Create a new layer and arange it below the "Black Line" layer and call it "Colour Layer" (or however you yakes spell it).
Ok, make the picutre layer (one with the acctual picture, not your drawing) invisible.
Now select each area you want to fill a colour just by using the magic wand tool and highlighting the area required. Then filling it on the "Colour Layer".
By the way:
White skin colour = FFCEB5
Black skin colour = C59D8B
These work well
Creating Shadows::
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Now the last thing to do is a "Shadow layer". Create this layer and arrange it above the "Colour Layer" and below the "Black line" layer.
Now shadows are up to you, generly you want to put one under the chin and the hair line and on the clothes to give them bepth but its entirly up to you.
Using the pen tool again with the same settings as before when filling the area you want to use black but with an opacity of 60%. simple
Finishing it off::
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What you will nottice with this technique is that if you fill something with a dark colour there are white areas between the colour and the lines. To solve this can be done it two ways.
Either increase the area select when you use the magic wand tool to hightlight the area by chooseing "Select" from the main menu then "Modify" then "Expand" and use 1 or 2 px.
OR you can create a new layer below everything that you fill black then by making all layers invisble apart from "black line" select the outer area (so you get a outline drawing or your person) then select the new totaly black layer and press delete so you get a Silhouette.
This makes all the black lines about 1px thicker in apearance.
Tips::
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Always use a curve fix of 5 otherwise you get handshake in the line and it doesnt look as good.
Always use huge resolutions otherwise the curve fix of 5 doesnt look right.
There was another one but i forgot NO WAIT, i mind now It was about eyes and ears. To do them just look at my link at the top of the page. Your trying to follow the top of the eyeline then bring it down just for the pupil and the blue bit whatever its called then add white. And for the ears you wan to follow the outer edge then just bring down a line from the top to the center of the ear.
If there is anything wrog with this tutorial just tell me
http://rsdesign.fortnet.co.uk/dev/pics/theboys.gif
::Using Adobe Photoshop 7::
Creating the lines::
--------------------
First create a blank document of your desiered size, i usaly use 1280*1024.
Next thing to do is paste in your desider photo graph and scale it to be as large as possible and take up the whole area if feasablie.
Now create a new layer and name is "Black Line"
Using the pen tool, select free forum mode and set the "curve fix" to 5px. Use the pen tool to folow the lies on your picture and then follow them back around again. So each line that you want black is the area enclosed between the pen lines.
Now make sure you have selected the "Black Line" layer and right click anywhere on your picture and select "Fill Path". Use black on Normal mode with 100% opacity. Now right click again on the drawing and select "Delete Path"
Now you can either do all your pen lines from the start then fill them all black at once but i find that i just do a line at a time each time filling it black and seeing how it looks.
Creating the colour::
---------------------
Create a new layer and arange it below the "Black Line" layer and call it "Colour Layer" (or however you yakes spell it
).Ok, make the picutre layer (one with the acctual picture, not your drawing) invisible.
Now select each area you want to fill a colour just by using the magic wand tool and highlighting the area required. Then filling it on the "Colour Layer".
By the way:
White skin colour = FFCEB5
Black skin colour = C59D8B
These work well
Creating Shadows::
------------------
Now the last thing to do is a "Shadow layer". Create this layer and arrange it above the "Colour Layer" and below the "Black line" layer.
Now shadows are up to you, generly you want to put one under the chin and the hair line and on the clothes to give them bepth but its entirly up to you.
Using the pen tool again with the same settings as before when filling the area you want to use black but with an opacity of 60%. simple
Finishing it off::
------------------
What you will nottice with this technique is that if you fill something with a dark colour there are white areas between the colour and the lines. To solve this can be done it two ways.
Either increase the area select when you use the magic wand tool to hightlight the area by chooseing "Select" from the main menu then "Modify" then "Expand" and use 1 or 2 px.
OR you can create a new layer below everything that you fill black then by making all layers invisble apart from "black line" select the outer area (so you get a outline drawing or your person) then select the new totaly black layer and press delete so you get a Silhouette.
This makes all the black lines about 1px thicker in apearance.
Tips::
------
Always use a curve fix of 5 otherwise you get handshake in the line and it doesnt look as good.
Always use huge resolutions otherwise the curve fix of 5 doesnt look right.
There was another one but i forgot
NO WAIT, i mind now It was about eyes and ears. To do them just look at my link at the top of the page. Your trying to follow the top of the eyeline then bring it down just for the pupil and the blue bit whatever its called then add white. And for the ears you wan to follow the outer edge then just bring down a line from the top to the center of the ear.If there is anything wrog with this tutorial just tell me
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