How to Clean and Tone a Paper Drawing in Gimp (no tablet required)

Step 5: Cleaning the Doodle

Working on the new layer, zoom in until the area you wan to fix is large on the screen.  In this case, I’ll be fixing the line on the thigh.

Using  the magic lasso tool, select around the blemish you want removed (picture 1).

Using the paintbrush and white, touch up the area (notice I had to be careful around the lines of the boot as I didn’t want those removed) (picture 2)

Repeat where ever necessary. When you’re satisfied, merge the touch up layer down to the bottom layer.  This is your cleaned up raw.  I like to save my work as a PNG now, usually naming it something like [projectname]_clean.PNG (picture 3).