i told myself i would quickly redo this post before doing anything else bc i don’t really have all these brushes anymore so i did hahaha. EXTREMELY HUGE MASTERPOST FEAT. ALL MY IMPORTANT BRUSHES!

ummmm, info on some of my brushes :

why doesnt my sai have all these settings

IF I GET SAI

thank you! 

my old brushes can be found on my twitter

these are mostly just mutations from other brushes I’ve found through time.

Just a quick tip to artists

If you’re an artist who likes to work really close, (like me), do yourself a favor and put up two views. You can do this by clicking View–> New on your toolbar.

There’s nothing worse than finally zooming out and realizing what you were doing was very wrong. This saved me a lot of grief tbh. I’m sure everyone knows this already but ._.;; I arrived quite late to that party.

WHAT

That’s amazing..

Does this work for Photoshop?

For Photoshop you’ll wanna go to Window > Arrange > New Window for [Document]. 

BRINGING THIS BACK BECAUSE YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW HELPFUL THIS HAS BEEN. This will save you hours and hours of backtracking (fixing a thing close up, zooming back out and realizing that the thing you fixed doesn’t work with the rest of the picture–rinse and repeat). As someone who uses the ‘squint and see if it looks right’ method of drawing anatomy, the tiny window is a goddamned life saver.

for my artsy followers

HOLY CARP!!!

@krita-foundation is there a way to do this in Krita, this would be really useful

Yes.

First settings->configure Krita->general->window->multiple document mode set to subwindow.

then, open a doc, window->new view-><doc name>

then window->tile

Here’s an example: https://docs.krita.org/Making_an_Azalea_with_the_transformation_masks

Very useful tip. Thank you!

It’d be great if Krita’s overview docker can be as fast & high-quality as a document view. It’s much move intuitive to use that instead. Easier to call out and manage too.

So this brush is my mother fucking L I F E I’m using it for everything honestly, and I thought I’d give you guys the settings for it!

Stars are here!!

Hey dudes this is a FREE extension I just finished for Windows after ages and ages of reverse engineering of Painttool Sai. It provides thumbnails for the .sai file type from right within explorer so you can preview the contents of .sai files and it even works for .sai files within folders like this folder full of .sai files and with Window’s built-in preview panel

Download Here!

Hey! So this all started as a simple random color script for Paint Tool Sai but now it’s starting to grow into something bigger!

This is SaiPal. It is a tool I wrote after reverse engineering Paint Tool Sai for so long and reads/writes directly to its memory to do a lot of cool features!

>>DOWNLOAD<<

More info under the cut

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i feel bad for people who use sai but dont know about stabilizer, transparent brushes and clipping groups

this is where you find stabilizer:

i personally prefer to use S-4 for default drawing and S-7 when i need to draw really long smooth lines. this is what it does:

this is where you find transparent brush:

when you enable it, you can use your currently selected brush as eraser. this is what it does:

this is where you find clipping group:

you have to have at least two layers, the base layer and the one for the colors. when you draw on the layer with little red bar on side, the stuff you put on the layer appears only on top of the things you have on the base layer. the effect is p much same as preserving opacity except you dont change anything about the base layer and you can still use layer textures and effects. this is what it does:

reblog this to save a life

THANK YOU SO MUCH

i dont use Sai but i know most of you guys do so!!

i feel bad for people who use sai but dont know about stabilizer, transparent brushes and clipping groups

this is where you find stabilizer:

i personally prefer to use S-4 for default drawing and S-7 when i need to draw really long smooth lines. this is what it does:

this is where you find transparent brush:

when you enable it, you can use your currently selected brush as eraser. this is what it does:

this is where you find clipping group:

you have to have at least two layers, the base layer and the one for the colors. when you draw on the layer with little red bar on side, the stuff you put on the layer appears only on top of the things you have on the base layer. the effect is p much same as preserving opacity except you dont change anything about the base layer and you can still use layer textures and effects. this is what it does:

Askshinyglacia Toolset

I figured I would just have one post with all my tools in case anyone wants to give them a whirl. Plus then I can just link one post easily. Obviously I use sai, so these won’t work for other programs…! Sorry!

Textures X/X

Lineart Tool/Sketching Tool

Coloring/Shading Tool

I keep my stabilizer at 8 (sketching, writing, coloring) and 12-13 (lineart). I also use the standard airbrush and water brush, but that’s it…! 

My mom keeps on talking about taking the laptop I work on to clear it out so it can work faster, which means deleting SAI and I don’t feel like making up and figuring out new brushes when that happens since I’m fond of this one!

Type: Pencil, Square/4th Tip

Size: *Varies*

Min size: 0%

Density: *Varies, usually 100%*

Spread: 100%

Texture: Dirt 12 96%

Keep opacity: Yes

+Advanced Settings:

Quality: 1

Edge Hardness: 0

Min Density: 0

Hard <-> Soft: 100

Dens: Yes Size: Yes Blend: X

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here ill post these together!! luv this water brush

Hsdfgh. of course dear you can ask. I TRY and be of some help. :O also I hope that these images show better than in the last tutorial….

CLICK FOR ORIGINAL FIRE TUTORIAL

OH I ALMOST FORGOT! CLICK THIS  Google everything for reference ;D for colors, for shapes. look at images. <3

I didn’t see any many galaxy/nebula brushes floating around, so I made my own! (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧  Hope someone find it helping ;v;

You have to add detail and effect by self, but it’s pretty easy!! Maybe I make tutorial on it later ;v;

I suggest detail and blend layers on luminosity or addition!! Use bright colours!

FOR BLENDING:

I suggest using a watercolour brush on following sets:

Size: 26.0

Min size: 60%

Density: 100%

Spread: 50%

(No Texture)

Blending: 50

Dilution: 50

Persistence: 80

Keep opacity: yes

Smoothing Prs: 50%

+Advanced Settings:

Quality: 2

Edge Hardness: 0

Min Density: 0

Max Dens Prs: 100%

Hard <-> Soft: 100

Dens: Yes Size: Yes Blend: Yes

FOR DETAILING:

I suggest using a brush on the following sets:

Size: 100.0

Min size: 3%

Density: 54%

Spread: 100%

(No Texture)

Blending: 49

Dilution: 0

Persistence: 80

Keep opacity: no

+Advanced Settings:

Quality: 2

Edge Hardness: 0

Min Density: 10

Max Dens Prs: 49%

Hard <-> Soft: 0

Dens: Yes Size: Yes Blend: No

The tutorial of how I achieve watercolor effect in Sai! :) I highly recommend using real watercolor paintings (your own or ones found on the internet) as reference.

And here you can find a few useful links: 

Here’s the finished painting: link

I tried out some nice settings for watercolor on pixiv and changed the settings a bit - have fuun

Starry Night Brush for Sai Paint

dude