The pencil, when finished, measured about 23 inches wide by 14 inches high. To be able to use my 8.5 by 14 scanner to scan the pencil, the pencil was cut into pieces that would fit on the scanner. Several registration marks were put on the pencil before cutting it apart, to help line the pieces up when putting them back together in Photoshop.

After the pencil is scanned, the levels are adjusted, it is sharpened, Threshold adjusted, and then it is converted to Bitmap mode using 50 percent threshold. This changes the pencil drawing into something fairly close to a pen drawing.

The image is converted back to Grayscale mode and will be refined with a graphics pen (the Pencil tool is used to avoid anti-aliasing in the line work). The reason the line art is worked on in Grayscale rather than Bitmap, is to take advantage of Layers and other features not available in Bitmap mode. The drawing will be converted to RGB when it's time to start adding color.