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SAI Coloring Tutorial
Published: 2011-05-05 05:09:20 +0000 UTC; Views: 64251; Favourites: 1815; Downloads: 988
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See the finished product here: [link]I've been meaning to make one of these for a while, and I finally remembered to take screenshots along the way as I was doing my last drawing.
I hope this helps some people in learning some of the cool features in PaintTool SAI!
If you have any questions, please feel free to leave a comment!
Enjoy!
DD: I'm so honored to have this tutorial featured in the Daily Deviations!! I'm glad to know that so many people will find this tutorial of use to them!!
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..XD thank you! I'm glad you found the tutorial of use
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I'm glad you found it helpful!
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I just started working with SAI recently and I've absolutely love it, but I wasn't aware of the tricks you've taught here and they are SO helpful. Thank you so much for sharing this easy to read and wonderfully useful tutorial with us all! Coloring will take me less than half the time it used to :'D
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haha, I'm glad you've found it helpful!!
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This tutorial seems really simple to follow and I'm sure it will be a huge help for me. Thanks for sharing it
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you're welcome! I'm glad you find it helpful!
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I'm glad you've found it helpful!
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This tutorial is really helpful!
I just have one question (sorry if you already answered this) but what size canvas are you using with a 3-4px line? Or do you just have your tablet set on a very high pressure setting?
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I'm glad you found it helpful!
I work fairly large scale: I scan my sketches as 600dpi, so my images are usually around 5000-7000px in height and/or width, depending on the actual drawing itself.
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Ah, thank you!
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When i have collected all my linearts in one layer set and copy and merge it only tours out into another lineart... Why? can you say what to do?
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when you have your copied lineart layer set merged into one layer, select 'selection source' on that layer... then on the bucket tool, make sure the target is set to 'selection source' and you should be able to start coloring easily with the bucket tool on new layers.
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but when i'm gong to fill in the color on the face with bucket tool the nose and mouth disapear.. why?
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is your new layer for coloring above all your lineart layers? make sure they are below all the lineart.
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Oooh thank you so much
awesome tutorial by the way
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good job man ...thanks behalf who doesn't left a comment ...
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This helped me a lot thanks!^^
Sadly I seem to have pushed a wrong button and now it's not working anymore...
When I use the 'bucket' the whole page gets colored
Do you have an idea what I did wrong? I did set 'selection source' for the lineart and then as a target on the new layer
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if you have your lineart copied to a single merged lineart layer, marked to be the selection source (the box above the layers is checked), and the bucket tool's target also set to selection source (under all your tools), it should work properly. the only thing I can think of beyond that is that your lineart may have some open sections... Double check that your lineart layer and bucket tool are both set properly (you may have hit a keyboard shortcut to disable one or something), and then look close at the closed area you want to fill and check if there are any gaps.
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Thanks^^
I've found the mistake I think (I've set the 'color difference' at the detection mode to 0 ^^')
SAI is quite difficult but your tutorial helped me a lot
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I'm glad you found it helpful!
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This was very helpful
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thank you!
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Hey, come help this group out!!
#HumanArtReference
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Thank you so much for this tutorial!
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I really do! I'm a newbie going digital 
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haha, that's good to hear. Good luck with starting digital!
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and thank YOU for donating some points!
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Wow this is like the only tutorial that is super helpful!!!
Thank you for making it!
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I'm glad you find it helpful!
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wow this is really helpful !
i have difficulty shading the hair.. how do you make them so sharp and crisp? simply use the pen tool ?
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