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coffaefox β How to Shade on SAI:: Tutorial
Published: 2012-01-03 05:02:49 +0000 UTC; Views: 19175; Favourites: 327; Downloads: 309
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Finally a tutorial!! ^.^final drawing in tutorial can be seen here::
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I hope this clears everything up and I hope it helps : )
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This really helped with steps but when I've used blur tool before to get a smooth shade it makes it look worse. Like it turns it into a plastic flat look. Is there a way to fix it or anything?
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do you have all your colours on the same layer? Β Also it might have something to do with the colours you're using to shade / highlight with. Β Don't use blacks or whites. Β always use colours and then use modes such as multiply/shade Β or lumi+Shade / luminosity to get the effects you want.
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Hmm.. I'll take the tip. Thanks!
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Thanks! I really needed this. Spent about half an hour looking for something to help me shade on paint tool sai!
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agh, I tried using the lasso tool, it just moves it around it doesn't cut it
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you have to press Ctrl+X to cut it lol
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oh lmao thanks! (btw I love your Icon 
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thanks lol; drew it myself
no problem!
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Aah thank you so much! I've been overcomplicating things waaay too much, this is so much easier than what I was trying to do before, and a lot faster.Β
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Thanks! Β This helped so much. Β Mine doesn't look so great since I'm not really good with where the shading goes but I'm sure that will come with practice. Β
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Because there are a lot of things you didn't show like layers etc...
Also, when i use lasso tool, it just moves around the whole magic area, it doesn't cut anything.
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but I do show layers lol. Β they're in the side~ Β To the left~ Β The blue layer is the one that I'm currently on 
or at least that's how I did it here~
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Started getting confused in the air brush part.. guess I won't know how to shade ._.
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This is so annoying ;-; my hand is extremely unsteady and the lasso is showing this.
I'm also really bad at determining where it needs shading and where it doesn't.
Ugh. ;-;
I think this has helped a bit, though.
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I think I got it! The blur tool REALLY helped fix the shakiness of the lasso. Thank you so much! But I don't understand how I would go about using multiple layers for this... hm.
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Interesting. Gonna have to set time aside to grab Sai and try this out at some point, coloring kills me atm XD
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I did everything onto the same layer. I refuse to do everything again -_- I'll figure something out! Thanks
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When im trying to cut the stuff, you know with the lasso tool, I take every thing, with it not just a little part
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everything you lasso will be cut. Β You have to create a full circle with the tool or a full shape, otherwise it'll fill it in for you~
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yea, i know, but when i grab the tool and going to make a circle or something, i move everything when i touch it.... crazy i know
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when you have what you want selected, you don't move it, you press ctrl+X. Β that's code for "cut"
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But when Im going to make the circle or wahtever i will draw, when i going to make the thing.. the hole thing moveΒ Β
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then you aren't clicking on the lasso tool, you're clicking on the hand tool
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Well i am clicking the lasso tool and i have the exact same problem
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maybe you have the whole canvas selected? : ) try deselecting everything and then going for the lasso tool~
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I got what was wrong, I had never unslected the hole thing so... XD
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new update new shade mode and light mode
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those aren't updates. Those have always been there. Β if you want to shade somtehing or light something, yu have to make sure that it's both selected, as well as over the visible layer you want to shade/highlight. Β Then while on the layer with your shading/lighting, you go to mode- Shade or multiply to shade or to mode-screen or luminosity for highlights
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i tried it but in the mode part it didnt do anything.
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it should. Β What was the problem?
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This helped me a lot thank you so much!!!π
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This had helped a lot, but it doesn't seem to work on my Sai Paint Tool.
The layers and multiplying them are confusing and when I use the lasso, it cuts everything and when I multiply them, nothing good happens, and shading doesn't do anything
Can you tell me where I did wrong?Β
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the lasso tool will cut everything you have selected so you have to be careful for what you select. Β As for layers and the modes, it's hard at first, but you can name your layers to make things more organized. Β Basically it's a game of just getting used to it.
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Ooh, the first time I tried it didn't work, but I messed with a couple things and now I got this down!
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Can you explain step 4 to me? What do i do after i highlight it?Β
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use the fill tool and fill in the highlighted subject with the colour you want to shade with.
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Okay thanks ^^
Also the pic you did in the tutorial is really good
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I'm gonna need all the help I can get with improving my art on SAI, thanks
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For some reason when I use the lasso tool, it moves the whole layer that I used the multiply on. o-o
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