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forte-girl7 — Tutorial: Shading Methods in SAI Part A

Published: 2012-07-28 01:47:07 +0000 UTC; Views: 26571; Favourites: 654; Downloads: 369
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Description I tried to upload both of these tutorials TOGETHER but the file was too big for dA, so I cut it in half.

Anyway, welcome to another tutorial! This is Part A of this set - Part B will be up shortly! This tutorial covers three different shading methods I regularly use on Paint Tool SAI. This one here covers cell-shading.

You can find Part B here: [link]

Check out my other tutorials at the following links!
Colouring with the Fill Bucket in SAI: [link]
Shading with Masks in SAI: [link]
Lineart in Inkscape: [link]
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Comments: 16

NicaRox2006 [2013-07-04 01:54:13 +0000 UTC]

May I ask what that green thing in Sai does? It's highlighted green on your lineart layer. I've been trying to find out forever.

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forte-girl7 In reply to NicaRox2006 [2013-07-04 04:21:21 +0000 UTC]

That signifies that the Layer is the Selection Layer

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Kaoyux [2012-12-08 22:24:44 +0000 UTC]

Hi, I'm writing to let you know that I featured your tutorial in my Art Features journal [link]
Please consider adding it to your favorites. Thank you for your time and the work you did in creating your Tutorial! ^o^

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McDie [2012-11-16 21:31:18 +0000 UTC]

this is just.... amazing

thank you

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GabbyVee [2012-09-05 10:30:12 +0000 UTC]

omg just realized...is this supposed to look like Tac from Richard Willaims "The Theif and the Cobbler"?

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forte-girl7 In reply to GabbyVee [2012-09-05 15:19:10 +0000 UTC]

Haha yeah. The character there is actually a cobbler-in-training herself, so I thought it would be fun.

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GabbyVee In reply to forte-girl7 [2012-09-06 03:34:56 +0000 UTC]

That's really cute! Good to see a tip of the hat to Tac, such a cutie.

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shinyfeather22 [2012-07-28 19:54:52 +0000 UTC]

Actually, human eyes are more sensitive to the colour blue, so you'd be right on most shadows "appearing" blue.

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Ankyy [2012-07-28 18:06:53 +0000 UTC]

Nice tutorial! I just thought I would add too the "color of the shade" part.
The color your shade has actually depends on what color your light-source has. For example, the light outside (during daytime) tend to have a yellow tone, therefore the shadow turns its opposite color (blue). If your light-source is red the shadow would turn green, and so on...
Hope that helped!

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darkbubblepop09 [2012-07-28 15:14:16 +0000 UTC]

OMG! The Thief and the Cobbler!

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Just-Rube [2012-07-28 12:42:37 +0000 UTC]

how much does sai cost? im rally thinking about buying it

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forte-girl7 In reply to Just-Rube [2012-07-28 14:08:46 +0000 UTC]

The site where you can buy a license, here: [link] says 5250 Japanese Yen - that's a little under $70 USD

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THB886 In reply to Just-Rube [2012-07-28 13:25:11 +0000 UTC]

It's free in China,maybe I can download it then e-mail it to you

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StarlitSkvader [2012-07-28 03:08:37 +0000 UTC]

Very nice and concise!

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Jackskelowine [2012-07-28 03:04:58 +0000 UTC]

thank you part 3

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WheatleyFan42 [2012-07-28 02:11:57 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!

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