Beginner Paint Tool SAI Tutorial // All my Tips

Here's another Paint Tool SAI tutorial for beginners! In this video I tried to go through everything I know and use on Paint tool SAI.
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[loffeine]

"The blur tool blurs things... it blurs them"

-JelArts

[m.aruchi]

The eraser erases things...This video saved my life! Thanks so much :)

[chickennearyou]

Jel: "you could use a mouse as well"
**looks at past drawings drawn with a mouse**
Me: yea... I'll pass..

[megananimates]

“Vivid makes colours more vivid.”

-JelArts 2017


So very true

[athena]

If you forgot how to use it Here is some help enjoy :3 (I might not have all of it)


*Starting with paper*
0:51



*Stabilizer (Controls Drawing slower/faster Makes it easier)*
2:54



*About Tools and brushes*
8:38


*Paint Textures*
20:36



*Setting up your workstation*

3:58


- Making your paper view bigger/smaller
4:39


- Making more than one view
5:01

*About colors*
6:00




*About Layers*

22:52


25:55




*Decorating a picture by using layer/Shading, Highlighting*
15:08




*Making lines*
18:50




*Important parts*


Saving work: Ctrl S
Going back: Ctrl Z (There's a limit too btw)
Zoom in/Zoom out: 8:01
Rotate: 8:11




Edit: These are mostly for beginners even me have to come to look at this video again ; -;

[shandalfthegreen]

I went into this program totally blind, and you just saved me SO MUCH TIME with this video! Thank you so much!

[merdog]

"The blur tool blurs things"

[lily_cmdier]

I know I am SUPER LATE but I learned a few weeks ago on how the RGB Slider works so, let me explain.

The RGB Slider takes advantage of the Additive Color Model. The primary colors are Red, Green, and Blue. The thing is that they are the primary colors of light, not like the usual Red, Yellow and Blue that we're taught at school.

When you add Red and Green equally, you get Yellow. When you add Green and Blue equally, you get Cyan. When you get Red and Blue equally, you get Magenta. If all three are mixed equally, you get White.

Adding them in different amounts gives you a different color. It's fun to work with but I don't use it when I color. If you want to test this out, you can go to paint tool SAI by making three layers and separating them by Red, Green and Blue. To see the effect, the top two layers should be in Multiply Mode.

I just realized (while writing this) that it helps you understand on what kind of color your pigment would be if shined upon a certain color of light. Meaning, it can help with your lighting if you use multiply.

This is a mess and I only know this because of a presentation I had to make for my Science class, so research was needed. You can learn more online.

[phaelynne]

I may be 3 years too late to be watching this, but still, thank you so much! This helped me a lot ♥

[Galaxia]

I've been using SAI since 2013 and there's so much stuff in this video that I absolutely had no idea about, and I've been spending hours doing something that I could've saved so much more time Thank you for this!!

[nouveau]

I think you can actually move multiple layers at once. There's that box below the 'eye' in the layer. You click that box for the inactive layer that you want to move along with the active layer. Then you can just drag and move the layers. (I'm sorry, I'm really bad at explaining)

[JLC-hdlj]

Whoever says art is easy hasn't tried their hand at sitting for hours straight while working on a painting on an art app you arent accustomed to. Also, thank you so much for this. I got Paint Tool Sai a few days ago and am still lost.

[redvoices]

WHERE HAS THE CLIPPING INFO BEEN THESE PAST 3 YEARS

[alex_j]

This video is amazing. I recently got a tablet and sai, and this video saved my life. I was getting frustrated until I saw this. Thank you!

[qemon]

*Follows all the steps*


2 HOURS LATER


drawing looks like i drew with my eyes closed..


WELL-

[ravuen]

Thanks a lot! 2 years ago i drawed in paint tool sai, but i gave up. Now my motivation cane back but i forgot everything about it, this helped a lot

[plushy]

I'm getting my first drawing soon and I wanted to learn the program so I could start drawing right away. THIS WAS AMAZING AND SO SO SO HELPFUL!! Thank you so much for making this!! Super legit and that thumbnail doesn't lie. Great, keep going!!

[brunomunemassa]

You kind of threw every tip you had at me in one go... and that's absolutely what i needed lol, thank you so much !

[ikarusrq]

WTF today i bought a intuos draw and BAM!! Beginner tutorial

[A-bphq]

boy, I've had pts since 2013 and there's things no one EVER told me! I'm so grateful for this video!!! so helpful!