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Spoonzmeister — SAI tutorial part 1

Published: 2008-08-26 16:34:50 +0000 UTC; Views: 216545; Favourites: 3806; Downloads: 4443
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Description Edit: To everyone who has a technical question such as the size of my brushes or various other settings, I'm sorry but I no longer use SAI. I'm currently using Photoshop on a Mac, and so it's not possible for me to check these settings so I can answer your questions (unless you know some way for me to run SAI on a Mac with pressure sensitivity, in which case I'll love you forever). I'm very sorry if this causes an inconvenience, and while I will still gladly attempt to help with technical problems, I apologize if I'm unable to do so adequately.

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[link] Download a 31 trial of Easy Paint Tool SAI here.
[link] Purchase a program license here.

Questions or concerns are welcome.

Part 2: [link]

Edit: It's come to my understanding that the ink pen is not a standard part of the basic SAI's tools set. I obtained it from downloading the trial of the 1.0.1 version of SAI. If you want the ink pen tool, you can download my brush set from here . Simply replace your folder "toolnmr" with the one contained in the .zip and you will have access to all of the same brushes used in this tutorial including the ink pen. (In the event something goes awry, you may want to move your original "toolnmr" folder before replacing it with the one in the .zip, just to be safe.)

[May 16: I just realized that I had the wrong file up for download; the .zip contained the elemap folder instead of the toolnmr folder. It should be fixed now, but please let me know if you run into any other problems.]

Edit 2: ~phirecracker left this helpful piece of advice for anyone having trouble getting the ink pen tool from the above download.

"After unzipping the file, open up the folder 'toolrnm' that you have just downloaded, copy the file
'10.ini' from Spoonzmeister's folder and paste it into your own 'toolrnm' folder. It works

btw '10.ini' is the ink pen tool. This method would work for any other tool that you're missing too. gl!"

Everyone say thaaaaanks to ~phirecracker !

MOAR EDIT!: If you STILL can't get the ink pen tool to work, you can try making your own.

1.) Open Notepad.
2.) Copy and paste the following into your new text file:

[ToolParam]
id=1
name=Ink Pen
desc=
key=
tabflt=0
tabflt_prs=0
brpat_vsbpos=0
brwav=2
drawmode=1
brsize=66
brsizesc=1
depth=100
f_showopt=1
f_prs2dp=0
f_prs2sz=1
f_prs2bl=0
prsfeel=10
szmin=0
dpmin=0
dpmax=100
bfval=50
txval=95
quality=1
blend=0
water=0
stretch=0
smooth=0
f_keepopac=0
edgehdns=0
brfnam=[None]
texnam=

3.) Save your text file.
4.) Open your toolnmr folder and look at the file names. Pick a number that isn't already in use - since you're making the ink pen tool, chances are the number 10 is a safe bet.
5.) Rename your text file [number].ini (ex: 10.ini)
6.) Move your text file into your toolnmr folder.
7.) Load up SAI and see if it worked!

Another option similar to this method would be to open 00.ini (the standard pen tool) and change the parameters to match the ones I supplied. Technically you could alter any of your tools to function as the ink pen tool, so if there's one you don't use much (like the binary tool, for example, or maybe the brush selection tool), you can find it's corresponding .ini file (just load each of them one at a time; the name of the tool should be within the few couple lines) and alter it.

Edit: ~CelestialDragonsoul provides this alternative to the above which has worked out for multiple people: "the pen tool download didn't work for me cuz somehow my SAI deleted it XD, i tried the alternative method of creating a notepad doc and neither did that work. what did work though was copying my 00 pen tool file, renaming as 10 and copying the above code into it. thankyou! though i would love to know what the 11 tool is, i'm missing that one too XD"
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Comments: 392

Spoonzmeister In reply to ??? [2009-05-18 23:28:51 +0000 UTC]

Aww, but there's plenty you can do with a mouse. It might be a little harder, but you can do anything with patience. SAI actually has quite a few vector tools that I didn't discover until some time after making this tutorial; if you click to make a new vector layer instead of a new regular layer, you can access them. Maybe that'd make things a little easier?

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PuchiPekoe In reply to Spoonzmeister [2009-05-19 12:50:43 +0000 UTC]

Oooh, really!? Thanks! ^^

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Aiyette In reply to ??? [2009-05-07 08:56:29 +0000 UTC]

Hi! Your tutorial is awesome! ^^ Might I ask what tool do you use for blending colors? Thanks ^^

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Spoonzmeister In reply to Aiyette [2009-05-18 23:30:26 +0000 UTC]

In this tutorial, I used the brush tool to blend. As of late, though, I tend to use the marker tool combined with a few gentle touches of the water tool. There are tons of different tools you can use for blending in SAI, except smudge. It kinds of disappoints me that there doesn't seem to be a smudge tool.

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Aiyette In reply to Spoonzmeister [2009-05-19 23:48:03 +0000 UTC]

Thanks~! ^^ This will be a great help ^^

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Kauthar-Sharbini In reply to ??? [2009-04-22 08:29:50 +0000 UTC]

thanks you after i read your tutorial i have a hope !!

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Maricrism In reply to ??? [2009-04-20 10:45:05 +0000 UTC]

Yay... That was awesome!!
If you just have an account in gaia I will prefer to choose you as a colorist... Because I dont know how to color

mcm_Maricrism <--- My gaia name

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TwiForever In reply to ??? [2009-04-05 13:14:28 +0000 UTC]

um, what type of brush did you use for the lineart?
awesome tut btw. ^^

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Spoonzmeister In reply to TwiForever [2009-05-18 23:33:39 +0000 UTC]

I used the ink pen tool to do the lineart; it's actually not a standard tool in SAI, but I attached a download for it in the tutorial's description if you'd like to have it.

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spinds In reply to ??? [2009-04-03 19:20:49 +0000 UTC]

Umm...I don't have the 'Water' brush do you know how i can get it?

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Spoonzmeister In reply to spinds [2009-05-18 23:34:41 +0000 UTC]

I recently added a download in the description that has every brush I used in this tutorial and others, including the water tool and the ink pen tool, so you can get it that way if you'd like to have it.

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caelestre In reply to ??? [2009-03-24 21:15:40 +0000 UTC]

This helps a lot, thank you very much!

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Yumi-is-Spazztic In reply to ??? [2009-03-21 19:49:21 +0000 UTC]

this is very nice but, i need some help... every time i hit Layer --> Luminance to Transparency, it won't do anything

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RainyRaven In reply to ??? [2009-03-16 20:38:42 +0000 UTC]

omg! this is great, thxs so much for this helpful tutorial!

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HazelDzlD In reply to ??? [2009-02-19 05:06:07 +0000 UTC]

Waw tq so much dear!!

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nozomi-sama In reply to ??? [2009-02-15 09:04:25 +0000 UTC]

Nya! Incroyable!~
We use the same techniques xD

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FrankMR In reply to ??? [2009-01-29 22:10:20 +0000 UTC]

Awesome Tutorial! Thank you! I tried it's knowdlege here [link] but I think I deviated myself from the basics, I did many weird stuff with the shading.

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KidneyMunch In reply to ??? [2009-01-19 04:03:07 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the great tutorial. I suck at coloring and I just got sai *goes off to test my newly tought skillz*

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mei-wei In reply to ??? [2009-01-17 05:20:30 +0000 UTC]

LOL. My SAI is missing the Ink Pen... for some odd reason. It amuses me~

Though, this really helped me a lot! I was wondering how people got that nice brushy effect... And lo and behold! Thank you~

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Spoonzmeister In reply to mei-wei [2009-01-17 14:54:49 +0000 UTC]

I got the ink pen out of the trial version's brush folder and added it into the full version's brush folder because I just couldn't do lineart with the normal pen... If you'd like, I can upload my brushes folder somewhere and you can download it and get the ink pen that way.

I'm glad that you could find use for it.

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mei-wei In reply to Spoonzmeister [2009-01-18 04:05:59 +0000 UTC]

Ah... Alrighty. :3

Thank you again~

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ivorycricket In reply to ??? [2009-01-03 00:16:12 +0000 UTC]

oh, thank you so very much.

i was curious if you use a tablet, and if so, any recommendations?
i'm going to launch into the whole digital art world, and am curious for advice.

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Spoonzmeister In reply to ivorycricket [2009-01-04 01:54:17 +0000 UTC]

I do use a tablet; it's a Wacom Graphire 4, I believe. But I hear that Wacom's "Bamboo" tablet is basically THE tablet for new digital artists, probably due in part to the fact that it's one of the cheapest good quality tablets you can get.

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ivorycricket In reply to Spoonzmeister [2009-01-04 02:51:16 +0000 UTC]

thank you very much.
i have heard a lot of great reviews for the "Bamboo" model, and I think that is what I'm going with.

i really appreciate your input, it's quite helpful.
:]]]

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Komidashi In reply to ??? [2009-01-02 02:54:55 +0000 UTC]

What a great tutorial! I love it and it helped me so much!

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Spoonzmeister In reply to Komidashi [2009-01-04 01:54:31 +0000 UTC]

Thank you kindly; I'm happy to hear it!

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lolinia In reply to ??? [2008-12-30 20:57:28 +0000 UTC]

oh, you dont know how much this helps 0_o. ive been trying to wing it with sai

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Spoonzmeister In reply to lolinia [2008-12-30 23:43:15 +0000 UTC]

I'm glad to hear that you found it useful. Winging it can prove a great way to discover new techniques and applications, but I guess it's kind of hard to do that without at least a general direction, huh?

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Hikapi In reply to ??? [2008-11-18 15:30:14 +0000 UTC]

Thank you ^^

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SilverRiku In reply to ??? [2008-11-07 22:31:48 +0000 UTC]

I has two questions. Are you using a tablet or a mouse? and did you just sketch the picture and scan it? or did you ink it up a bit with a pen or somethin? Thanks~ ^^

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Spoonzmeister In reply to SilverRiku [2008-12-04 02:54:41 +0000 UTC]

(A little late with the reply; sorry about that.) I use a tablet, Wacom Graphire 4. All the sketching and inking is done directly onto the computer using SAI.

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SilverRiku In reply to Spoonzmeister [2008-12-06 16:01:50 +0000 UTC]

that's neat~ (ah, it' alright, I tend to do that too sometimes. ) Thanks much~ ^^ Wacom Graphire4? Is that some kinda art program I could get online? or does it come with the tablet..?

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Spoonzmeister In reply to SilverRiku [2008-12-07 18:17:12 +0000 UTC]

Wacom Graphire 4 is the model of tablet that I use. I think it comes with some basic art programs like Photoshop Elements and some watered-down version of Painter... Because they come free with the tablet, they aren't absolutely wonderful programs (you get what you pay for, as they say), but they aren't bad either.

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SilverRiku In reply to Spoonzmeister [2008-12-07 18:36:19 +0000 UTC]

I see. well thanks for answering my few questions~ ^^

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Myukia In reply to ??? [2008-11-05 15:53:57 +0000 UTC]

thank you<3 this tutorial helped me alot<3

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MaruChiku In reply to ??? [2008-10-30 18:47:22 +0000 UTC]

Oh my goodness, you are amazing! That is undoubtedly the best Sai tutorial ever! And one of the best tutorials in general.
Detailed, easy to follow and gorgeous results.
Thanks for sharing!

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Xst4rryskiezX In reply to ??? [2008-10-03 18:07:41 +0000 UTC]

This tutorial is amazing. The best I've seen, to be quite honest.

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Spoonzmeister In reply to Xst4rryskiezX [2008-10-07 20:45:04 +0000 UTC]

That's quite the compliment; thank you very kindly.

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Xst4rryskiezX In reply to Spoonzmeister [2008-10-16 15:56:05 +0000 UTC]

Oh, you're quite welcome!

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Arianaca In reply to ??? [2008-09-25 01:01:30 +0000 UTC]

Great job! This is wonderful.

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Spoonzmeister In reply to Arianaca [2008-09-25 21:08:45 +0000 UTC]

Thank you graciously. I'm glad you found use for it.

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