Resources, References, and Tutorials.
This is not a "teach you how to draw/improve" blog. This is just merely another resource filled with resources for others to use to their own advantage.
On this blog you are going to find a variety of tutorials, references, and more.
If there is ever anything specific you want to see posted or you have a question (or advice) feel free to send an ask or a submission.
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Easy Paint Tool SAI Brushes
One limiting thing about SAI is the number of brushes, as well as the difficulty in making them. Well, screw that! I was doing some digging, and I found some cool resources that everyone who uses this great program might be interested in. There’s others out there, but these are my favorites that I’ve found that I’m currently playing around with.
SAI Tutorial by algenpfleger : Basic run-down of SAI, but this explains the process of creating textures/brushes to add to SAI. It’s more complicated than, say, Photoshop, but is still pretty simple if you take them one step at a time.
9 Paint Tool SAI Brushes : Exactly what it sounds like. Very attractive brushes, along with an installation how-to. Includes chalk, soft, thick, and flat brushes.
Easy Paint Tool SAI Brushes : A few brushes and a large collection of textures! Textures include shell, stucco, rust, watercolor, and a lot of grungy/concrete/etc-type textures. Page includes installation notes.
Paint Tool SAI Pencil Brushes : Includes settings so you can re-create the effects shown, emulates graphite pencil. These are really, REALLY beautiful and accurate, I think!
I am pretty sure there are plenty of people who follow this blog that do use Paint Tool SAI. This is for all of you.
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about brushes
Hi! So uh… which one? If you could point out said picture/part of a picture I’ll see if I can tell which one it is or if I even still have it! The thing is, I used to obsessively collect brushes and eventually I ended up with twenty million of them and I would start drawing, knowing exactly which type of brush I’d like to use, but then it’d take ages to find it. So a while I ago I just got rid of ALL OF THEM and since then I’ve only been using photoshop defaults.
I’d often spend a few minutes making/tweaking brushes to use when I start drawing, which is all personal preference of course, but for me it really made things way easier to get familiar with brush settings instead of collecting ready brushes for every occasion. For example, look a dis, every single brushstroke here is done with one and the same brush and different settings ->
I guess I could save each variant separately but to be honest I don’t see the point. Maybe I’m just traumatized from scrolling through so many brush lists in my life : I
While I’m at it, have another example from scratch. Like I mentioned I usually just use photoshop defaults but essentially you can make what you need out of anything. Crumple some paper, throw it on the scanner, take a picture of a rhino’s eyelashes, whatever seems appropiate. I went with an obvious choice, the bark of a tree:
(^This is from public-domain-images.com) Then I cut out a small part that looked interesting enough, desaturated it and changed brightness/contrast, done:
Then I opened window - > brush and started messing around with this newborn brush.
(^The window you’ll wanna be best friends with)
^This is quick and sloppy but basically it’s useable for drawing! What you see in the upper left corner is what the brush looked like with no settings changed whatsoever.
Some notes on this: For sketching I’d open ‘brush tip shape’, squish the brush’s shape until it’s really narrow, set scaling to 2% and add shape dynamics -> size jitter -> pen pressure // For painting/rendering I keep it simple to save memory and just add Transfer -> Opacity jitter - > pen pressure // For texturing or background effects I’d add scattering // For rough brushstrokes and texturing I’d use ‘dual brush’ to combine it with other brushes - etc. - etc.
Wow ok I am really horrible at explaining :’ I
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How to use a custom-pattern-brush the right way
The brush I used in this guide is a part of the famous “Blur’s Good Brush”-set which you can download here (PS only): Blur’s Good Brush-set
Custom brushes are fun, and brushes who gives of patterns and texture is even funnier. It’s very popular to share custom brushes that looks like hair, fur, leaves, grass and even brushes that looks like a chain or the scales of a snake or dragon.
However, many people seem to think that if you only use custom brushes, the painting will instantly look better and will be faster to finish. Don’t believe that, NEVER believe that your tools will improve your art. Tools can give you more possibilities to test your boundaries, but the rest is up to your own skills.
Anyway. Here’s a rough guide in how you should use custom brushes with patterns, for this guide I’m going to use a pattern-brush that looks like scales on a snake.
Here’s the base, I’m going to paint the bodies of snakes tangled into each other.
The base can be rough, just remember to add light and some shadow here before adding the pattern-brush.
Now I have added the pattern-brush. The brush is set to shape dynamics and also set to multiply. If you are afraid to screw things up, just att the pattern on a separate layer. The pattern brush also follows the direction of the strokes, so make sure you know which direction the pattern’s supposed to follow when placing the strokes.
Next step is to add some rough lineart to the bodies. This is a good way to avoid confusion.
The pattern-brush works here as a base for the scales, so we don’t need to use that brush anymore. Now you can switch to a regular hard round brush. Play around with the opacity if you want. Now, by using the light and shadows from the base, I now start to paint over the scales manually. This will make it look less flat, if you are unsure about the light source, took up a reference photograph.
The last stepis to paint over some lineart-ish strokes. I also fill in some gaps where the pattern-brush missed.
As you can see, I didn’t finish all snakes, I left some untouched to show you the difference between the defined ones and the flat ones. And as you can see, using the pattern-brush ONLY doesn’t make as much impact as the ones that had a bit more work on them.
I hope this guide help you guys out :)
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Sullivan’s fur tutorials, brush packs, and texture resources.
See the original devART post here: LINK
Download custom Photoshop brushes here: LINK
Sullivan’s Fur/Feathers/Scales wildlife texture brushes: LINK
The eyedropper blending tutorial mentioned in the Q&A: http://youtu.be/XMM3Z7lXPwA
Sullivan says:
The Brushes (Tutorial Part 2)
Hard Round 25 Fading
Take your normal hard brush, make it 25px large. Now go to the Brushes menu and click “Other Dynamics”, and set the Flow jitter to Pen Pressure in the drop down menu.Hard Round 5 pixels
This is your basic, default hard brush when you load up Photoshop with the regular brushes it should be right at the top… no need to change it!Airbrush Detail
Load up default Photoshop brushes and scroll down til you see the soft brushes—- pick one that is at least 60px large. Open the Brushes menu and click “Shape Dynamics” and set it to Pen Pressure, then click “Other Dynamics” and have the Opacity and Flow jitters set to Pen Pressure as well.Tips For Custom Sullivan Fur Brushes
- these are easiest to use when highlighting, try picking a color that is lighter than the area you are drawing on.
- the brushes are pressure sensitive, so you’ll want to use these with a tablet. try drawing lightly for softer fur, and push harder for more tufty fur.
- just scribbling one of these over your drawing will make it look dumb, trust me. try layering the different brushes, or going over with your own brushes to add in your own details for a more realistic look.
- try playing around in the Brushes menu… color effects can look really neat with these, see what works for you :]
Rules
- you may NOT attempt to resell or redistribute these brushes; if you want to share these brushes with others just link back to the original deviantART post.
- please give credit when you use these! i’m not normally fussy about giving credit, but i worked hard on these so it would be appreciated.
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PHOTOSHOP BRUSHES
Ink and Watercolor Brushes by *Stalcry
Real Media Mini Brush Set by *Stalcry
Charfades 100+ Painter Brushes by *charfade
Essential Illustration Brushes by `fox-orian
Mateu7’s Ink Brushes by ~mateuseven
Mateu7’s Watercolor Brushes by ~mateuseven
Brush Pack - Ink And Brush by ~rillani
23 Brushes for Photoshop by *yumedust
Manga photoshop brushes by *Cetriya
Texture Brushes by *AlectorFencer
Water Colour Copic Brushes by *ZachsAnomaly
Brushes pack by *JohnnySix (#1, #2, #3, #4, #5, TEXTUREPACK)
Brushes by ~concept-on-mac
Brushes by *k04sk
Custom Brush by *sandara
My Brush Pack by `adonihs
Brush set available by ~leventep
Tutorial by `charlie140588
Z-PS-Brushes-V6 by ~zhuzhu
Photoshop Brushes by ~EraserX
Lin Ran - BRUSHES
Linda Bergkvists - BRUSHES
Sarsa - BRUSHES
Rafał Wojtunik (biglebowsky) - BRUSHES
m@ (Mathias Verhasselt) - BRUSHES #1
m@ (Mathias Verhasselt) - BRUSHES #2
Barontieri (Thierry Doizon) - BRUSHES
Viag (Nicolas Ferrand) - BRUSHES
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Hey SAI users
Get your acrylic brush and give it these settings
Just
Just trust me
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my ‘comic’ marker tool - right click a blank space and make a marker tool, then set it to these settings
Oh
I will need this
Thank you
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This should make a nice taper for you.
(mod note) Thank you very much for submitting this.
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Some SAI things
I’ve talked to several other people who use SAI time after time, and surprisingly not a lot of people are aware of these two features, so I thought I’d share :)
First off, the Stabilizer:
Really neat tool that “stabilizes” your pen. The higher you go on the list, the smoother and straighter your lines get! It’s very very useful if you’re someone who prioritizes precision :)
The downside is that the higher you go, the pen tends to “lag” behind what you’re drawing. It’s easy to get used to if you really like that level of smoothness. I prefer using setting ‘10’ for regular work, and ‘S-1’ when I want to be more precise~
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Secondly is the fringe effect. I actually found this out through illustudio’s little drawing process tutorial a while back.
Pretty straightforward. It makes your coloring look like you put it through photoshop’s “sharpen” filter. You can alter the intensity by sliding the bar that says ‘100’ right underneath. It’s very very fun to play around with! :D
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