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DarlingMionette β SAI Tutorial - Lineart
Published: 2010-04-23 16:50:06 +0000 UTC; Views: 116931; Favourites: 2336; Downloads: 1823
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Description
A quick tutorial for PaintTool SAI, explaining the various line-art tools and how to use them
Needed: Paint Tool SAI. Tablet is optional, as you'll only need it for the Pen tool.
You can get Paint Tool SAI here: [link]
There's a free 30 day Trial, or you can buy it. An English version is available
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NOTE: You can now download "DarlingMionette's SAI Resources" here:
[link]
It is a .zip file of all my brush settings, textures, blank do-it-yourself resources, instructions for creating custom content, and associated start-sai.exe file that lets you register these files to your SAI without editing the .conf files manually :3 All in one convenient place. All of my current brush settings have been updated to match the files in the .zip file, and contain image examples for each. Be sure to read the README's! If you like it, then drop me a +fav on this deviation
. Thanks!
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oh my god, thank thank thank you so much <<333333
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omg I WUV YU >3<
twas so helpful in a piece I'm working on :3
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XD i'm glad you found it helpful!
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wait so how do you make it so that you can upload it as a layered lineart????
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upload it where? I don't think I understand your question. to save it as a layered lineart you can save it with the .sai extenstion (only openable by SAI), or as a .psd which can be opened in photoshop and several other programs.
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hmmmm well ive seen people upload line art on DA with no whiteΒ back ground, just plain line art, and my computer wont upload psd or sai files
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ah those aren't multiple layers. those are transparent gif's or png's ^^
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ohhhhh okay :3 thank you
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Thank you, finally a basic lineart tute that is not overly complicated!
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You're welcome!
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This is so helpful! thank you <3
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eep i forgot to edit that link. it got moved and the files were changed. you can find it in my gallery under tutorials (Custom Brush Supplement)
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for the resources zip
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This is a really good tutorial. It helped me a lot.
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That's exactly a tutorial I've been looking for. You don't know how much I appreciate this.
Thank you so much!
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:3 awwies you're so very welcome then!
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Nice tutorial for new SAI users.
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Thank you, thank you, thank you!! I didn't know about the line art tools till now 
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haha you're very welcome :3
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There are still too much people like me that doesn't understand how SAI works, thanks for making the lineart stuff way more easier to understand
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XD you're so very welcome!
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But my ink tool doesn't fade out like yours
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on the pen tool: adjust the min size/density to 0. for the other lineart tools: you can adjust the line pressure/width with the "Pressure" edit tool. (you've gotta be on a vector line art layer to see these tools though)
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but,if i created a line with the cureve tool, it has al pixeled little light dots,like in the tutorial. how can i smoother them?
with the pressure and then click right?
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check your image resolution - you should be at 300 pixels/inch (default is 72) that may help.. also make sure you're not super zoomed in XD
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okay,thank you.
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You seem to be the right person to ask this...is there any way to make straight lines in SAI? I mean the way you can hold shift in Photoshop to draw a straight line, that doesn't seem to work in SAI. I've checked the help files but can't find any means of creating a restricted straight line.
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I haven't been able to find a quick short cut to it yet -_- unfortunately. Most of the time I try to line my really straight lines up with the edge of the paper and then move them over to where I actually need them. There may be a way to do it that's easier, but I haven't found it. unfortunately, sai doesn't really come with a user's manual
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That's what I was afraid of. Seems I'll still be jumping back and forth to Photoshop for some things. Great tutorial by the way. I already faved it a long time ago but I just started using the line work tools last night and they really are quite amazing.
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You, Miss , helped me a loooot! I didn't even know about the line-art layer!
Thanks a lot! (^u^)/
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aww you're very welcome :3
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Wow! Thank you so much for the tutorial! I just got SAI I was a bit confused about how it works. I'm kinda used to Photoshop and it looks so different!
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XD you're so very welcome
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oh my glob, thank you for this!
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do you have a photoshop version? for line art?
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nope. i dont use photoshop ^^
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THANK YOU! I had no idea how Sai worked and this was very helpful
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