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SAI Tutorial - The Basics
Published: 2011-10-05 03:25:29 +0000 UTC; Views: 79151; Favourites: 3603; Downloads: 1437
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WARNING: HUMONGOUS FILE!My first tutorial ever Q U Q
I'm sorry, I'm a horrible teacher OTL
But please enjoy <3
Ask questions if you want, and I'll do my best to answer them!
It was supposed to be longer, but my computer ran out of RAM space and the scratch disks were full, so I couldn't resize the canvas to make it bigger orz.
So, I worked on this throughout class time (ICT 9/10), since I finished all my assignments super early. I barely have any more time at home, busy with homework ;A;
Not sure what to say here LOL
But I'm so tired and I should get some more sleep
I hope I can get a Part II out soon, but no guarantees.
Part 2 will probably be about drawing/shading, as my watchers wanted.
Oh yeah, this was made for:
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Tutorial (c) =akarashii
Paint Tool Sai official site: [link]
EDIT: OMG A DD! ;A;
Never would have thought!
Thank you so much to ^MzzAzn for suggesting, and ^shelldevil for featuring it! Thank you so much!
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Comments: 310
It was my pleasure to make this!
I'm glad it's useful~
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Oh just take a font easier to read at the next part so with lesser pixels please!! :3 That somehow hurts my eyes after a while @.@
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Ah yes, that was pointed out... er, multiple times
But thank you >u<
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Oh I didn't know someone else mentioned it already ^^" sorry >.<"
Well yes you normally use fonts like that only for pointing something out so like for the thank you on the right lower corner but text which should be readable should be either in a font with serifes or without (I guess for a tutorial a font without serifes is better) but easy to read. *just wanted to add some additional information for your personal referance*
You are so welcome!!
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It's not a problem at all!
Ah thank you >u<
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I am impressed it really is a very helpful tutorial! 
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Thank you very much
And it's my pleasure~
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Thanks for the tutorial, it will be very useful. Can't wait to see what you'll explain on part 2.
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Ah thank you very much
Glad it helps~
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i have been using sai for a year or two now. never in that entire time did i ever notice that preset button on new canvas XD
lol very nicely done.covers a lot of the basics of the tools.
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Thank you >u<
Glad it's informative!
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I've been using SAI for a while now, and a bunch of this is new information to me.
Looking forward to part two. :3
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Glad it's informative
Ahaha wish I had more time to get it done *bangs head on desk
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It's great how it is, don't beat yourself up. XD
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Wow. That's super helpful! Too bad I can't use it. Curse you Photoshop Elements 8!!! It has no blur tool.
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Ah yeah, sai tools have completely different effects from Photoshop.
I think Photoshop has a blur, but it doesn't have the same effects as SAI.
And thank you >u<
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I've been looking for something like this for forever. Thank you so much!!
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How did you get all those other tools like mechanical pencil?
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This is really helpful! Thank you for sharing~!
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thanks a lot it teached me some basics I didn't know of xD
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Although I'm quite familiar with both Photoshop and Sai programs, what gives me the greater aesthetic edge as an aspiring comic artist? I am aware that designing graphics is Photoshop's game, but is Sai mainly about art?
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Hm...
In my opinion, I believe that SAI is the better program for drawing, but Photoshop has the upper hand on textures or comic toning.
Sai is created as a painting software, but Photoshop was created as an image editor.
Sai was also designed to work conjointly with Photoshop, as it has an option to export as a .psd file.
I'm sorry if that wasn't much help, as I've only been doing digital art for 3 months.
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So dual wielding both programs would help, given that the user has knowledge on said programs that is?
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SAI is generally used for coloured artworks and art that you want more of your own touch to, if you plan on screentoning anything, SAI doesnt have any options for this and also doesnt have any typesetting, whereas photoshop you can use for lines, screening, and typing. So if you plan on colouring, id use sai, if you plan on toning, id use PS =]
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Any examples of tones which you'd care to mention? I'm really curious.
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Umm, pictures using tones done in photoshop, or how to use tones in photoshop? XD
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A how to would be nice.
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its true that sai doesn't have the option to do screen toning but like adding new brushes you can add new textures to create a screen tone.
tho photoshop will always have the text over sai.
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My brain doesnt work well enough to create brushes that look like tones! XD
The whole text thing dissapointed me a bit :<
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lol Ive had sai for 2 year-ishes. i just now started trying new brushes. it not easy.
yea the whole text thing disappoints me to.especially when the only program i had was paint for text. ((that was a pain in the ass.))
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I was using photoshop for about 2 years, and was a total veteran and didnt even wanna try anything else, then i saw a speedpaint of someones picture done in SAI, i got the trial and was totally hooked ;3;
Now i only use photoshop for backgrounds sometimes, and if i ever need text XD
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this is so helpful! thank you for making this
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Hmm... Despite the fact that I use SAI already, that was still helpful/informative. Thanks for making/good job!
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Ah thank you >u<
Glad it was useful!
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omg ; -; i use this program i knew everything u said in there expect the one for the Fringe thing
i have a question for you there is this clipping thingy ik how to use tthat but what about the other two idk what those are for?
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You mean preserve opacity and selection source?
Preserve opacity is almost the same as clip layer. Except if you paint something on (for example) Layer 1, then click Preserve Opacity on LAYER 1, then when you paint over it, it will only paint on the areas you painted before.
I'll probably explain this and clipping on the next tutorial.
I'm not quite sure about the selection source, I've only used SAI for 3 months now. I've never used it before, so can't help you there. Sorry
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nah its okay xD but thank you that helps but idk which one is opacity u see the thing is x.x my program is suppose to be in japanese but it shows in jibberish and i want it to be english but the english version will say expired x.x its terrible right now
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Ah I see.
The first one should be preserve opacity, then clip, then selection
At least, that's what's on mine.
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"Also, I love how handwriting"
I meant "I love your handwriting". Not "how". Sorry for stupid typo! D: (And for a random, useless comment.)
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AMG, RASHI, THIS IS A FREAKING LIFE-SAVER!!!!! What would I do without you??!!!
This is so helpful! It teaches the basics, not like how to color hair or skin, stuff I'm okay with, but like the scratch pad (I'd never even heard of that) and the colors palete, which I kinda figured it was for colors, but I couldn't find a way to put the color there. That was probably the best part of the whole tutorial for me. 
Also, I love how handwriting~ you know, if that isn't creepy at all. ; w ;
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OMG thank you so much
So glad that it's actually useful!
lol that's not my handwriting xD
it's actually a font, but I chose one that would look like my writing ohoho
it's cause I was too lazy to install my tablet driver into my laptop
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You're welcome!
Oh haha, it's cool still then! Do you have a mac or pc?
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