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secret-pony — Mini tutorial: Shading techniques in SAI
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Another secret revealed!Also apologies for typo's. I don't have a working spellcheck.
If you're looking for more resources for drawing (ponies), check out my other tutorials:
My (poor) explanation on layer clipping: (one but last paragraph)
Q: Will you make a tutorial for PS/gimp/*insert any other program* ?
A: No. I never used any of those and I'm not going to find out for you. Search DA or Google.
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Thanks! I'm very glad it helped!
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Heh, I tend to use the blur tool when I try shading. It really helps create the gradual effect of shadows. ^_^
But I shall definitely try this out.
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I've been doing that too lately x3
But you can combine it with layer modes to get darker shading or unexpectedly different colors.
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Ooo, that sounds cool. I'll try that as well.
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I love your pony's and if you can recomend a website or app that would be awesome plz do my luck with these things is terrible as you can see with my attempts ( epic fail) thanks!
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I looked Said up on my android tablet and it show weird India man ? Is it for aple or computer? Thefor responding nnormally it takes 4eve
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I udnno what youre looking at but when i google paint tool sai this is the first hit i get detstwo.com/sai/ i don't know if it works on apple since i only use pc
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Thanks do you mind if Ido line art on some of your ponys I will put where I got the pic and I won't do it if you say no and I understand if you do and thanks for the web address
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No, sorry. I would rather not have anyone use my work as a base for lineart.
But thank you for asking me first instead of just using my work without telling me.
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K and your welcome Iknow how oit feels when you do the work and they get the credit, that's very school project for me
-penpro14
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Thanks! I'm glad you understand
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No problem keep in touch I like to have different points of view on my sketches , like my skyress? Sneek peak I'm working on a Luna.
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I was looking for this tutorial so hard just a bit ago! I remember seeing it a long time ago, and couldn't for the life of me remember how to get the shading to work on multiple colors. I'm really glad I was able to find it through searching. But now I'll fave it so I can find it again easily. Thanks so much for making this, I would have never been able to figure this out myself
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No problem! And good luck! ^^
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I'm glad you found it useful <3
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This is very helpful! I've had SAI for a long time and I've never known the value of those layer modes!
I have a question though, what program do you use to put the text in your tutorials? SAI doesn't have a text tool, does it?
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I type everything in word and copy it to SAI ._.
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*Gasp* You can do that? I've never thought of that... Wow, I feel dumb now, but thank you, you just saved me a hell of a lot of trouble :'D
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You have to use wordart though, it won't copy text. :3
When you copy to say, go to layer > luminancy to transparancy, to clear the white background
and then you have the text in Sai ^^
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Oh, okay. That's really handy. I've tried copying text from paint over but couldn't get rid of the white box for the life of me. So that's what the luminance to transparency does... Nice! That's saves me a whole lot of heartache. Thank you :3
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It changes everything white to transparancy
(but also greyscales to semi transparant 
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That is wonderful. I wish I had known that. The greyscale thing seems like it would come in handy as well.
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OH MY GOD YOUR HANDWRITING. IT IS SO CUTE AND NEAT AND AMAZING AND AHHH
*ahem* Um, I meant, thanks for the tutorial! 
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And all my life I've been straining to find the perfect colors for cell-shading.
Thank you u da best
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I'll gonna check out if this works on FireAlpaca too! I never used multiply so far...I hate math!
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I tried! It worx! But I'm too lazy for this XD
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I don't quite understand how diferent shading colors work with the base colors, so I just use a normal black Layer with about 50 opacity.
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Just try using different colours sometimes. They create very neat colour combo's, usually much more interesting ones than semi-transparant black.
I usually don't know how they'll look beforehand either, it's trial and error every time. ^^
Over time you'll start to develop a feeling for which ones fit together and what kind of effect they give. (Example: brown or red over yellow, creates a golden-ish shadow)
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You have no idea how much I need a tutorial like this.
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Heh, you're welcome then ^^
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I used this for a drawing and it's so helpful! Thank you :]
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I'm glad you found it helpful! ^^
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Which Version of Sai do you use? Because I haven't the Layer Modes ''Shade'' and ''Lumi&Shade''.
I would be happy about response
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There aren't like version number versions of SAI, as far as I know.
By distributing and re-distributing the same version or different translations of the same version, over and over again, some functions probably have gotten lost.
Just try to find a new (different) one.
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The hard part is trying to pick the optimum shade color... and separating them from others that isn't the shame color 
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But it sure makes things a lot easier this way, in stead of manually picking out the color on the color wheel yourself. x3
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