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SAI Coloring Tutorial
Published: 2011-05-05 05:09:20 +0000 UTC; Views: 64230; Favourites: 1815; Downloads: 988
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See the finished product here: [link]I've been meaning to make one of these for a while, and I finally remembered to take screenshots along the way as I was doing my last drawing.
I hope this helps some people in learning some of the cool features in PaintTool SAI!
If you have any questions, please feel free to leave a comment!
Enjoy!
DD: I'm so honored to have this tutorial featured in the Daily Deviations!! I'm glad to know that so many people will find this tutorial of use to them!!
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yes! I'll use the same technique as I use for making the lineart- using the pen tool with the stabilizer setting turned on, it lets me make some nice sleek shadows.
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Ooh, yay! Thanks for this, I'm always in search of good SAI tutorials and this is one of the best I've seen.
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thanks! I'm glad you found it helpful!
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Fantastic!! another helpful tutorial for my collection!
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haha, I'm glad it's useful to you!
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This is way better than the other tutorials I was using. This'll save me so much more time. I -knew- there had to be an easier way. Haha.
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XD I'm glad you found it useful!!
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This tutorial is great. I was hoping to find some way to colour black lineart. Thanks for sharing it.
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Wow! I just got SAI, and had no clue you could do this much! Thanks!!
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I'm glad you found it helpful!
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nice work!
how do you ink your drawing? Do you use the linework (forgot the term) layer? or you trace it by hand?
I'm still new with the whole tablet thing... my lines get shaky and messy when I trace.. is there a special way for it, or do I just have to practice real hard O.O
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I trace it by hand. 
Plus, using the stabilizer setting in SAI almost completely eliminates shaky lines. XD
overall you need to get a really good feel for your tablet, and get comfortable using it. the more at ease you are with using it, the easier it is to get good results.
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aryt then! thanks a lot!!
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lol, on the very top bar of settings on the screen, at the far right there's a dropdown list called Stabilizer... I usually set it at S3 or S4. If you can't find that, if you double click on the pen or ink pen themselves, a window will come up where you should be able to find it there, called Stroke Smoothing or Stroke Stabilizer.
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This has been very helpful for me!
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I'm glad!
When I do the lineart, the eyes and pupils both have their own layers.
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This is so handy, I kept coming back for this. Now thinking, "Whatever, just faving it."
And the background is mind-moving, like a sunset or something.
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haha, I'm glad you found it so useful!
the gradient color scheme is one of my favorite sunset gradients XD... I've used it in several of my drawings!
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wow! so good! it helped me alot! thank you : ))
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I'm glad, and you're welcome!
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I've been searching so long for something as detailed as this! thank you!
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Omg... Never even KNEW about the stabilizer. It works slower but WOW if everything doesn't come out smooth and nice and neat and AHHH!!! My lineart problems have lessened a bit. Thanks soooo MUCH! <3
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haha, I'm glad it's helped!
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OMG you are awesome!! I had no idea that you could do clipping groups and things like that. I do have one question. I can't find the Stabilizer, I think I might have a different version... what would be the substitute?
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XD thank you!
I'm not sure about a substitute... the stabilizer dropdown menu is in an odd place though, it's on the very top bar above the canvas... though if you double click on the pen or ink pen tool itself, you should also be able to set a stabilizer setting (Stroke Stabilizer) there too.
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I figured it out!! Thanks!! Instead of being called stabilizer, it's just called smoothness XD
Thanks again so much for being helpful and making this lovely tutorial!!
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this is great, really helpful!
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No problem
-you dont have any youtube videos, speedpaints or something like that do you?
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well I have a livestream which I planned to use for such a purpose, I suppose now's a good a time as ever to start. XD If I'm drawing on livestream, I'll post a link in a journal.
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Great! Thanks for letting me know, I'll start to watch you then, if you don't mind ^^
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Thank you for this! I'm an n00b at SAI, hopefully this will help make me make my coloring somehow better!
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haha, I'm glad it's helpful to you!
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Lovely art btw
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it's just in my little scrollbox of tools (pen, airbrush, brush, watercolor, marker, etc.)... it's somewhat near the bottom of the list. If your version doesn't actually have it, here's a handy tutorial so that you can create it! [link]
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Very helpful, even though i don't use sai,I will use this!
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I'm glad it can still be useful to you!
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yeah I never thought of using the pen tool to do the line art and the eye tutorial will really help with close ups!!
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