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Irelys — Paint tool Sai - tutorial
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These are my apparently-not-so secret tips and tricks for using Paint tool Sai.
This is not a tutorial in which you'll learn to draw, but this is a tutorial to improve your efficiency/quality when using this program.
The reason I made this tutorial is because lately I've seen a bunch of artists who claim to spend 4 hours or more on a simple chibi drawing. Later, when I watch some artists' livestream, I saw why... Ppl struggling with awkward angles, coloring large surfaces with a pen tool size 10, etc...
I think this tutorial will also benefit artists who are new to Paint tool Sai. This way they don't have to waste countless hours discovering all these tricks, like I did in the past
I hope I can help at least some ppl with this tutorial
The image I used for examples is this one: [link]
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Thank you!! =w= I'm new to Sai and this helped sooo much.
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TT ^ TT
gahhhh
how do your lines turn out so even and un-pixely
mines never get that hq. :C
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hmmm... maybe try working on a bigger canvas with a bigger brush size and resize the whole thing in the end?
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Thank you sooo much for the tutorial 
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You are sure helping ME out O__O
I've spent way too much time on my more recent drawing in Sai, only my second in that program... And still, I had to clean it up in PSP TnT
Thank you so much for this tutorial!
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You're welcome
and thank you *u*
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oooohhh this one is one of the best tutorial I ever seen- this isnt about the complex of the image is about to explain things how to work correctly with the tools ty very much
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You're welcome ^^
I'm glad you think so
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You use tablet, am I right??
Maybe thats why the stabilizer works idk.
Maybe thats why I can't use it??
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Uhm, I just have one question though, what do you use for the lineart?
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You mean what drawing tool I use?
I use the crayon and paper tool, but I disabled their textures and set shape to 'simple circle'
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yea thats what I meant :b Well ok, thnx for sharing (:
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I'm confused about the stabilzer.
On mine is not writed stabilizer but smoothing.
What do I do??
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It's the same thing
Sai is originally a Japanese program, so there's some different translations going around.
The words might be different, but the effect is exactly the same
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I tried stabilizer but nothing changes. XP
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Wooooww, Thank you Urelys - san.
YOU HELPED ME WITH THAT TUTORIAL .
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This is pretty great but just so you know, you can clear your selection by hitting CTRL+D
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I'm glad I'm learning things as well x3
Thanks for the tip
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^^ No worries, and your tutorial helped me out a bunch! <3
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Excellent tutorial! Thank you very much for all of the tips. I just downloaded the free trial of Sai to see if I wanted to consider purchasing it... your tips will definitely help me make better use of my 30 days with the program instead of spending it getting frustrated
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You're very welcome
I'm glad I could help
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omg i wished i found this before i spend hours on simple things D: thankyou very much for uploaded this now i can spend less time XD
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I know how you feel x3
You're welcome, though ^^
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I've been using SAI for just over a year now... and I've learnt so many things looking at this tutorial!!! D: The possibilities of SAI are endless
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Aren't they
I'm glad I could help you
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Thank you so much. You just made things a lot easier for me!
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wow this really helpd alot! 
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You're welcome ^^
I'm glad I could help you
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THANK YOU.
Never knew what that "tolerance" was XD
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This has helped me on so many levels ♥
Thank you so much ♥
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In order to deselect any sort of selection you have, click the button with the dotted square and eraser in it (called Clear Selection). It is right next to the Undo/Redo buttons.
the button next to that, with the dotted circle and rectangle is called Inverse Selection, and will select the exact opposite of what you have selected, meaning, if your lineart is clean and does not have gaps, you can just select the "background" then inverse your selection and you easily (and much more cleanly), have your selection... selected.
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How come I never noticed those buttons before? ಠ_ಠ
Thanks
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