I'm using a Lexmark 4500 series all-in-one. It made the green pencil I used on Trowa's t-shirt look like it had rubbed into the original flesh tones I'd used on his and Quatre's arms.
To be honest? Your scan turned out alot better than I was expecting from your description. I suspect that the scanner didn't do a great job with the pencils but it's actually done what I expect out of a scanner. The rest is all to do with how the pencil is laid out on the page. You'll always have some sort of consistency issues- even with high grade pencils. There will always be colour change it's cause you're using light to pick up a subtractive colour scheme. The internet will forgive you for that- I promise (if they don't, give them a kick on my behalf). It can be made a bit better by using techniques to smooth the pencil out. If you put white on top of your colour it'll do what's called 'burnishing', and make your pencils a more solid colour. This may not work with very cheap pencils as they're too hard, and if you work on thin paper (printer paper or lighter- 80gsm weight lets say) then it'll tear a hole through that (I had issues with 110gsm but it's ok), but that can flatten pencils out which look nicer. You reapply your colour on top of that though if you want the punchy colour cause white will pastelise the colour Other things you can do is to colour with small circular motions to not give the impression of a pattern. Use lines if you're wanting to give texture like with hair, but for something flat, small circles can diffuse the texture. IT still looks a little rough, but atleast it's covered in a flatter way.
You're going to have troubles scanning anything traditional, but if you shrink the image and take precautions before you scan it, you can come up with something that to me is nicer than the flat textures of digital. I mean, to me, I prefer the original scan to the digitally enhanced one. I like the look of pencil alot. I sympathise with the information loss, but this isn't as bad as you think. Try to be a little less critical of your scans. It'll all be fine
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You're going to have troubles scanning anything traditional, but if you shrink the image and take precautions before you scan it, you can come up with something that to me is nicer than the flat textures of digital. I mean, to me, I prefer the original scan to the digitally enhanced one. I like the look of pencil alot. I sympathise with the information loss, but this isn't as bad as you think. Try to be a little less critical of your scans. It'll all be fine