i don`t use sketch or oekaki & was just wondering on the paint programs what is a good way to make super smooth line art mine is alwase bumpy no mater how long i spend on it i usualy use the airbrush tool is there a better way?

Well, it does matter how long you spend on it. "super smooth line art" can be achieved by two hours of working, and can be done with the pencil and watercolor tool. Or you could use the pen tool, or "anti-alias" lines in Lauscaux. But that's sort or cheating, in my opinion.

Oh... and ever heard of a thing called a period?

pen tool, oekaki shi-painter.
Use them as you see deathly fit.

Why would anti-alias be cheating? It's just making the drawing better. Although it's a little slow if you use air brush and anti-alias the same time in lascaux.

Using the AA tool in Lascaux will probably not give you incredibly smooth lines. In fact it really only works in a few circumstances, such as using a very small brush with flow all the way up. It breaks when using a large brush with a super soft edge, as well as when flow is turned down too much. Really it's a combination of brush and eraser.

Antialias is only intended to be used with the hard/soft brushes, not the airbrush. It's pretty useless with the airbrush since the airbrush already is antialiased by design.

o.O now that just shows how brainless I am... hahahahaha, I wish we have personalized user title, 'cuz then I'd be "THE ARTIST WITH NO BRAIN!"

only mods get user titles...

You need to get a vector art package like Illustrator, Ireehand or Flash. I myself prefer to use Flash. Vector lines are stored as mathematical equations and can be scaled infinitely. This means that lines remain smooth no matter how much your work is scaled.

In fact, having looked around this site I amazed at how many folk are trying to replicate the "vector look" without vector-based software. You are really making things hard for yourselves!

UPDATE ------- Oh, now I understand! You are all using online applets! Sorry for being an idiot!!!

...lol

If I want a smooth line, I first draw the line thicker than I want it to end up, then I "cut" along each side of it with it's background color using the AA brush at medium to large size (the larger the brush size is, the softer the edge is... to some extent). If the background is white you can just use the airbrush tool with the eraser, of course if you're using a new layer for this line there will be no backgrond color. If you're going to use the fill tool later you may run into ghost lines left by erasing, sometimes that's kinda cool but if you dont want them then you have to screw around coloring over them with the fill color you used. The soft edge of the AA brush cleans the hard edges of the line you are working with while making it a bit thinner depending on how much you've overlapped or "cut" into it. Sometimes you can get away with turning the "blur" tool down quite a bit and then going over the line as many times as it takes to get it smooth. But if you do it that way you need to remember that you need a new click of the mouse for each pass because if you hold the mouse button down and go over and over the line it won't matter how many times you go over it unless you do a new click for each pass. Almost forgot, the closer the background color is to the line color, the easier it is to get it to look smooth because the eye doesn't detect the abrupt change of color as easily...because it isn't so abrupt. In other words, a black line on a white background is harder to make look smooth than a black line on a grey background. Also, you can just leave the lines jagged and whenever you want to look at the drawing just blur your eyes. he he.

just a small comment on that MASS O' TEXT: use the eraser to clean, not the brush, then you don't need to worry about the cleanup creating more problems.

Oh...heh heh, cool. Thanks.

When Axil speaks, listen... I always do. Best advice I can give ya. Smart guy.

AA brush? What's that?

It's the anti-alias in the lower right corner of the Lascaux board, Emma.

Oh, duh Lee. Thanks!

wow, this board has helped me a lot... thanks.