(3) On the clipped layer, use the painting pen to paint the shadows. (2) Create another layer above the base color layer and clip to the fill layer. (1) Fill the line art using the bucket tool. The steps for anime-style cel shading are as follows:
This method mainly uses solid fill, so I will use my customized line art pen and painting pen to create my illustration. The main feature of anime painting is sharp boundaries. Now, I will explain various ways of painting and the pen settings I use. You can choose from four strengths of anti-aliasing.
This feature is similar to blending modes for layers, but with some extra settings such as “Delete” and “Background” which are unique to brush settings.Īnti-aliasing smoothens the drawn line to avoid jagged lines. Here’s an overview of the different pen settings.Ĭhange this value to alter the brush size.Ĭlick the button at the right to edit the pen pressure settings.Ĭhanging this value affects the transparency of the brush itself. In this tutorial, I’ll introduce some of the most useful features. Since Clip Studio Paint has so many customizable pen settings, it can take a long time to understand every single feature. In this tutorial, I will use Clip Studio Paint and SAI as an example. Pen and brush settings differ depending on the software. I’ll introduce some brush settings that I use for different painting styles. As an extra, I've included a set of "Airbrush Pencils" which are my favorite brushes in SAI.Until you get used to digital painting, you might be wondering how to set up your pen and brush tools for a particular painting style. (*) Update if you're having issues with the start-sai.exe, download this pack and extract it into your main SAI directory (where the SAI program is), the brushes should show up automatically next time you run SAI), they may overwrite your brush list but I've put them at the bottom so unless you have any brushes there, it shouldn't be any problem. I recommend using these brushes on A4 page size at 150 DPI and with stroke stabilizer at level 3 but use whatever you feel comfortable with.įeel free to adjust the pressure to your taste, some press harder than others so you may have to adjust.Ĭhange the Simple Circle to Flat and now you have a square tip shading pencil. Create a new "Brush" and manually adjust the settings like you see here, you could also use the Marker, Watercolor, Airbrush. Run start-sai.exe to install the textures. Extract the RAR into your Paint Tool SAI folder (install 7zip if you don't have winRAR). Here are a couple of pencil brushes that I made for Paint Tool SAI in order to mimic graphite pencil, to install them follow these instructions*:
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