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onisuu — drawing icons in SAI
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REBLOG ON TUMBLR if you want: onisuup.tumblr.com/post/868229…this is my process when drawing small pixel arts!
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hope it helps you! C:
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This is so helpful. I always wanted to give it a try and make my own icon. Thank you for sharing this tutorial. 
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can i have your sketch brush settings?
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it's the one on the very left ^^
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When I resize the canvas, the drawing changes too, How can I fix that?
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It is supposed to resize the image when you change the resolution. I try to keep the sketch simple and not too big to begin with (500*500 pixels or smaller) so when it shrinks, it still has definition to it
if you just want to resize the canvas but not the drawing, go to Canvas > resize/change canvas size
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How do you make the eyes look so smooth? ; o ; When I make pixels the eyes turn out so ugly and horrible! ><
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Try to keep the shape of the eyes round/pointy (however you stylize eyes) but make it even (so the shape gradually changes for curves and sharply goes to points for eye lashes etc
Choosing colours for the eyes: the more colours you use the smoother it will look as you blend the iris colours with darker shadows in the eye
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Ahh!! Thank you very much for the advice! It helps a lot <33
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Ahh it's my pleasure to help! ^^
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wouldnt you want to resize it after you do lineart?
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No because your nice pixel lineart will become blurry so there is no point doing the lineart before resizing
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youre right. i just zoomed in a bit after resizing. can you tell me how to make it transparent please?
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I went to file > export and chose the option with opacity (this way it saves it as a flat image with transparency)
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what option has opacity? for me it just shows file>export as > png, jpeg, bitmap, sai, photoshop, targa
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i saved a png and the little box popped up and i clicked the bottom one that said pixel opacity and it still has a white background
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Hmm that's strange, have you tried selecting all the 'empty space' when the image is one layer and deleting it (just in case it was filled with white/colour? And then export it again as .png with opacity ^^
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oh no i didnt think of that..thanks!
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I have a hard time grasping where to place pixels. Any tips for making it look right?
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it helps if you make a sketch first! then do the rough lineart and then flat base colours. Add shading, and then you can play around with positioning the pixels as you shade and you can add in-between colours to soften the look of edges.
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ah~ ok thank you very much! Hopefully I can make it look really nice!
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this probably sounds weird, but where did you download the binary tool? or what are the settings for it? i can't seem to find it on my version, which is 1.2 and i can't find the settings anywhere.
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In some versions of SAI it's called Legacy pen
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oh that's strange! It was just included in my tool set when I got SAI *o *
You can try to create a new brush -- right click on a grey/empty block in the tool box, and select Pencil
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This helped so much!
I couldn't figure out why when I attempted pixels I could never get the single pixel tool.
Now I realize it's binary pen...my bad xD
Thank you for the tutorial!
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Yeah, now I just want to draw as many as I can now to improve haha
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do u use your mouse or a tablet or something?
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I use my mouse when I work on pixel art ^^ I feel like it has better control
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i was wondering if firealpaca might have binary brush?
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Ahh sorry, I have never used that program so I'm not sure! If it has a pencil brush, maybe that works! Basically, try all the brushes you do have and see if any of them can draw single pixels
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they can but they have some spaces.
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Sooo.... how on earth do you make things smaller without them being horrible mixel mush? O__o Idk, I'm using Photoshop elements...
*sees you're online and dances happily inside because there are chances you'll actually answer soon Or then your messages are so crowded you won't even notice*
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if you shrink a drawing, it'll become pixelly every time unfortunately *o * it's caused by how the program has to crush the image into a smaller canvas XD
I shrink my initial sketch so I can redraw it at the smaller size to minimize pixelliness
the only way for a image to not become blurry/pixelly at a smaller size is if it was made with vectors
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Okay... :<
Lol, you did answer quite quickly. Thanks. ^^
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hehe I hope you figure out a good method <3 ^^ ))
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I've been fighting with these goddamn pixels for too long... ;__; Sometimes they seem so easy and other times I can't get anything done... I was getting too annoyed and started doing something else.
But I shall try later! I will not give up!
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The 'change resolution' setting is kinda annoying
whenever I change it to my desired resolution the bottom/top changes (I changed it to 'pixel')
its kinda useless for me then ;3;
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Ah it is because it is keeping the proportions consistent, so your picture doesn't squish vertically or horizontally.
If you just wanted to change the SIZE of the canvas, you need to go to "Change Size" and then adjust those width/length settings
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Thank yooouuu. Now, I see >w<
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