(one of many) ways to do lineart (Patreon)

i'm always experimenting with my art so i actually have several ways to do lineart depending on what i'm doing- this is one of them! lowering the opacity has a similar effect to using colored lines and makes everything blend better. you can either 1) lower the brush's opacity or 2) line in black and lower the opacity afterwards.

here's some super quick free hand sketches i did to show you. ofc they're not clean as lineart would be but it serves to show you the difference:

both ways work depending on what you're doing; personally i find 1st way to be more organic (because you naturally get this slightly weighed effect) so i like that one better, but i occassionally use the 2nd one too when i want something to look more uniform.

*** AVOID pure black to line. pure black doesn't exist in nature. the contrast is too strong and it'll make everything look boring and kind of unpleasant.