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DarlingMionette — SAI Tutorial - Lineart
Published: 2010-04-23 16:50:06 +0000 UTC; Views: 116931; Favourites: 2336; Downloads: 1823
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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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HOLY CRAP I never noticed any of those before... I love sai even more now <33
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XD sai is AWESOME.
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oh thank god!(and you of course
the only tips i could truly understand to do with lineart in general is'keep a steady hand'--veeeery useful....
this helped me out a lot,thank you!
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This tutorial teach me more clearly how to use the pen of SAI, thank you so much! =3!
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you are very welcome!
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Definitely favouriting this o3o
The most useful SAI tutorial...ever! <3
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haha you're very welcome, thank you for the feedback!
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Thank you so much,it helped me a lot,i was having problems with the pressure thing,and this sure helped,thank you!
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aww you're very welcome - i'm glad you found it useful!
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This tutorial is very helpful, thank you 
But I still don't know how I can set the whole lineart thin on this pen-pressure option 
Might you tell me where I can set those optoins? Tha would be awesome!
Thank you ~ :/
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you are most welcome :3 - for the lineart thinness.. it depends on your tool. if you're using the pen - then the pen pressure is a factor and you may need to check your drivers if it isn't working... if you're using the line or curve tool, then you need to actually go back and edit the width of the line points by hand with the "pressure" tool available in the line-art layer tools. Right click an edit point on the light, hold, and pull your mouse left or right to adjust the width.
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You shouldn't need to set the pressure of your strokes in sai, it does it automatically.
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Hmm... thank you, but that doesn't work :/
Strange....
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This helped me SO much, thank you! <3 i had no idea the linework layer even EXISTED, lol!
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XD you are very welcome. lol a lot of people don't know it exists XD
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I just discovered this and holy CRAP, you have saved me SO MUCH TIME on my inking. SO MUCH TIME. <3 You are a Goddess among men.
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XD haha you are very welcome :3 I hope you found it useful!
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I will worship you for ever for this tutorial! THANK YOU SO MUCH!
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XD you are so very welcome
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Thank you! I feel like an idiot, cuz I had no idea how to use this..
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I feel so awful for asking this, but, how do you get your lines so smooth like that?
I've had my tablet for about three years, and I've been through every tutorial I can find, but none explain how to make my lines smooth like that. Mine are always pixel-ly and I don't know what to do.
Thank you so much if you can help me out with that.
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in sai it's just automatic XD i use the lineart-tools and the associated layer - it's vector, so it works really well for smooth lines without too much pixeling :3
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Hm.. I don't understand whats wrong with mine then. haha. It looks like the lines you get in paint.net or something. xD
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Oh glob man... to think there was the line-art tool and I totally did not see that lol....
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XD a lot of people miss it!
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You lovely person! I had forgotten all about the pen tool in the Linework Layers~ I've been crying over the hell I've been going through with trying to figure out how the hell to make my lines look better.
I must also thank you for teaching me about all the other things in that box. I had no idea how to work some of those tools....
Thank you!!!
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hehe you are very welcome!
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ahhh, so helpful! I didn't even know the line art button was there xD
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XD a lot of people miss it!
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Aaaaw,so I need a tablet to do that kind of lineart with the pen tool
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XD BUT you don't need a tablet to do that lineart with the line curve/line tools :3 only if you want to do freehand lineart (I hardly use my pen at all for lineart :3)
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Aaaaaaaaaaaah I didn't even know what that layer thing did now I feel like such a n00b, haha. So much easier with the curved line and weight tool thank you so much!
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you are very welcome :3 I LOVE sai's lineart tools - it's the main reason I started using sai :3 now i'll never use anything else.
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Thanks for making this great tutorial.
this will help me a lot later on
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how do u get the colors in that color box thing?
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XD actually that's just my palette. you can right-click on your empty (white) palette boxes and hit "Set (s)" to set the color to whatever your currently picked color was ^^ then just left click any of the boxes to set your current color to match your palette. You can also use the color picker tool (looks like an eye-dropper right under the palette box) to grab any color from an image you have open in the window.
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thank u TT_TT
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awwies <3 you are so very welcome
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Wow, I used to use SAI a lot for inking and such, but I honestly had no idea what I was doing and just switched to the normal pen tool in the ordinary layers for lineart x3 Thanks to the tutorial though, I now know what half of the tools are! Thanyou so much for making this <3
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haha you're very welcome :3
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How to make a lineartlayer? Plz I need help with this stuff
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above your layer list there are 10 buttons, you want the second one. it looks like a piece of paper with a pen nib over it - click it and it'll create a new lineart layer :3
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Oh.. THANKS SO MUCH!!
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I knew there was a lineart layer you could make, but i never knew it could really help your lineart and make your lines more cleaner ;A;
Thank you so much for this tutorial. It has helped me so much!
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