im trying to learn to draw and need some links to where i can learn, also when i scan my drawing it comes out bad, should i use a pen instead of a pencil scans?

before i moved to computers, i was a pen & ink person. never really liked pencils. for a clean crisp line, use a pen with black ink. technical pens and calligraphic pens & brushes are good. you can also try sable brushes with watercolor ink. markers are also an option since they can be cheaply had, but the lines tend to bleed. paper is important too. the less absorbent the better. go for vellum. tracing paper is also good. anything that's good for ink & calligraphy will work. the problem with pencils is that the lines are grainy, irregular and not true black. and if you erase a lot you will leave lots of messy residue that you may not notice but the scanner definitely will. there's lots you can do post-scan to clean up the image. too much to go into here, but one of the first things you should do is boost the contrast so that the blacks are black, the whites are white, and the grays are minimized. (i presume you're scanning black & white drawings in greyscale mode.) one last word on learning to draw in general: patience & persistence. (ok so that's two, but whose counting?) be prepared to devote not weeks or months but years to developing your skill. it will not develop overnight, no matter what tutorials or books you read. so don't be discouraged if six months from now you're still not happy with your efforts. there aren't any shortcuts. i've been drawing since before i entered school, and looking back i'd have to say that i didn't really "know how to draw" until my early teens, so that's most of a decade right there, and i was drawing all that time! but as with any skill, there's an acceleration of progress as you learn more.