Hey /ic/. I'm working on a project and figured i'd

Trace over it in PS.

>tracing

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>>2531279
Oh, forgot to specify, I'm not looking to use the "cartoony" style of the face like on the right, but just the same technique of only lines, no real shading or anything.

pic related is another better example

>>2531279
That photo looks a little skewed and the light is washing out some details on the top. I'd recommend taking a few more photographs with the camera stationary directly above the coin and a light source coming from different positions. Put the resulting photographs into Photoshop as separate layers (or GIMP if you prefer free software). Adjust brightness and contrast levels to make the details easier to see. Make a new layer for the linework and trace over the photo layers. Multiple photo layers is to give you strong silhouettes across the entire surface of the coin to make tracing the actual shapes easier.

>>2531307
thanks for the great advice! unfortunately, i dont have a physical copy of the coin in question, only photos.

>>2531344
Well in that case, I'd probably:
*scale up the photo up to twice the resolution I wanted my final lineart to be
*skew the photograph (with perspective/cage transform tools) until the inner rim was a perfect circle
*do my lineart on a new layer while playing around with the photo's levels
*put the lineart layer over a white background and scale it down to its final size

Bear in mind the second photo you posted has a lot of variation in line weight that give it that look.

>>2531369
Awesome! I haven't used photoshop since high school, but I can't imagine its too hard to learn/re-learn how to do all that.

thanks a ton!