Paint Tool Sai Lineart Brush

[Margaret Sigars]

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I actually use my default brush setting which is the one above!!! My sketch tool is just the pen tool lolol, and I only tweak it ever so slightly if I want different lines. All my other brush settings can be found HERE by the way! Thanks for the message :^)

hi i love the effect your lines have !! would you mind telling us your current brush settings? i checked the faq but it says they need updating and i feel you use less pressure sensitivity? i could be wrong tho

When you attempt to use the Brush Tool and set it to "Basic" what actually happens when you start to paint is the brush changes automatically to a calligraphic brush. Because... "Basic" is not a brush. I'm not meaning to imply you are deficient in any way for not knowing this.. Adobe is for putting "Basic" in the brush panel.

You opened a raster image in Illustrator. Doing this means the Brushes Panel is empty, other than "Basic". Therefore there's no calligraphic brush for Illustrator to automatically switch to. So, you can't paint. Gotta have an actual brush for the Brush Tool, not "Basic".

i have same problem and solved . its for the file type . if your file is .dfx or dwg or some other types brush not work becuse dfx or dwg types are based on spline and dfx just support polylines .create new page and copy all things and fixed :)

There's a lot of great information on how to improve our art -scattered across Youtube channels, artist profiles and DeviantArt pages - but I'm hoping to get a broader sense of what everyone's doing to create their own unique art.

For ALL of my line art, I use the Pencil tool. The density is set to 100 and the Min Size is at 0%, which I believe this is how the brush comes when you download SAI. The only thing I've altered would be the Stabilizer, which I have set to 15 to help my lines come out more smooth.

I would say that 95% of my backgrounds are all hand drawn with the basic tools SAI comes with. The other 5%, I switch to FireAlpacha (because I'm too cheap to get Clip Paint) for additional brushes that add sparkle or scatter effects that SAI can't do.

Below is a panel from my comic that pretty much sums up all the different brushes I use. Pencil tool from SAI for the line art and the text, as well as additional brushes from FireAlpacha for the "dots and thorns" in the background.

I don't use Paint Tool SAI but your art definitely makes me interested in checking it out.

I think GIMP (the program I'm using) has options to reduce jitter in strokes but I typically don't use it as it slows down my sketch speed.

I really love SAI, and from what I hear, most people use it for lining and coloring. However, there are a lot of drawbacks to using SAI for comics. For instance, there is no ruler or grid lines that help with making straight lines for panels.

1) All my lineart is done in the default paint brush on pure black. While the pencil tool does have a natural ink like taper to it, I like to have a lot more control by "chiselling" away painted lines with the eraser. I just felt like this process feels more natural to me somehow. xD

2) Like this one I am working on currently, I just pretty much paint them all with the default paint brush tool. I start with the pencil tool though, to throw down all my colours in a sketchy format to get the lighting correct before I blend. I know there's brushes out there but whenever I have tried them sometimes it feels inorganic, or didn't match my style. I guess I like sitting down to do texture myself because it's relaxing. I'm not really tech savvy as well so idk if you can really get all the cool PSD brushes in SAI anyway. xD

MZ has a set of weird style rules that define its ugly, MS paint-expressionist look.

(No anti-aliasing, no colors other than pure black or pure white, and no contours wider than 1 pixel. Teeth must be drawn individually, and skin wrinkles must be contoured.)

Honestly not as long as you might think, once you get into a habit you just get faster at it as you go (learning how to control your lines better significantly cuts down on erasing time.) Longest ones can take a couple hours if they have details like super curly hair like above (less depending on if frames cut part out of it out.) But I don't think I really set out to be as fast as possible. xD

For backgrounds, I do a mixture of lineart and lineless painting-type styles. For this, I often use special effect pens you can find mostly on DA. Some examples are pens that create bark, leaves, and clouds. In terms of SAI, I also use the Multiply, Overlay, and Shade Opacity settings in order to add more layers and depth to my backgrounds. Here are some examples!

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As for the dynamics, I don't always change the size or have thick and thin layers in my work. A lot of times, I use colors to show distance, size, and scaling. From my previous examples, A lot of my lineart is one-dimensional. It start out that way, as shown below (not really NSFW, but there is blood just in case):

I like using textured brushes like this one since it's much easier for me to sketch things without being a perfectionist. It gives my drawings sort of a grainy look but it can have a nice pencil feel to it too. It also gives them more personality in my opinion. ^_^

If you're someone who constantly blocks in lineart/ adds hard shadows into your drawings, I would recommend a less textured brush if you don't want the white spots everywhere.

Also, though, if you tend to be a perfectionist with your lineart, I would try out some textured/grainy brushes to get out of the habit of making each line perfect. It makes you feel more like you're using actual pencil and paper

I used to be one of many artists who swore by the hard round brush at varying opacity for everything I drew or painted, but nowadays I experiment with all sorts of brushes. I love browsing Clip Studio assets looking for neat additions to my artistic arsenal.

As far as settings go, I always use pressure sensitivity to control the width of my brush. The other important setting is stabilization, which I generally set pretty high unless I need to do some really fine details. I could never go back to working in an art program that does not have a stabilizer!

Not silly at all. No, these two brushes are locked in position. The ink pen pressure sensitive, so the thickness changes, while the blending brush changes its opacity. I really have to push to get it to put down a solid color.

If I need a thinner or thicker line while inking and the angle is perpendicular to the slant of the brush, I'll just rotate my canvas. I usually rotate my canvas anyway, so that my strokes move diagonally across the tablet, which I find gives me consistent, confidently drawn lines.

Youtube has everything you need to learn how to make brushes. Myself, I try to emulate a traditional inking technique, but some of the hacks people have come up with are incredible, with cross-hatching brushes for example.

Hello,

I am trying to figure out how to make the paint tool paint the entire closed area, and not leave a border against my brush stroke lines. Do I have to do my final drawing in pencil to avoid this issue? I posted a picture down below showing the problem.

You are using a bitmap brush and painting on the same layer? You should have better results drawing on the Line Art layer and filling with colour on the Colour Art. You would have to create colour art from line art. Check the docs for Creating Colour Art from Line Art: -15/premium/paperless-animation/about-art-layer.html

Work huge and then resize the final product; it smooths out your lines and hides mistakes. This is especially true if you do harder lines like me, since connections can look sharp or jaggy, but helpful for soft lines as well.

Min Density prevents your brush from going below a certain threshold of opacity. If, like me, you want fine lines with no opacity dips, turn it up to 100! If opacity changes are good, leave it set at 0, or play around!

Max Density Pressure reduces how hard you have to press to get full opacity, which is super great if you usually press too hard, like me. You can also use this to keep some opacity changes without having too many semi-see-through lines! The default is 100%.

Reduce your Density (but only a little!). While a very low density brush will probably be frustrating and give you nothing resembling lines at all, a slightly lower density brush (in the 80-90% range) will appear softer than a 100% density brush, and will show a tiny bit of color through them if you paint underneath! See the bottom of this post for an example of the difference.

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