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TheSpacePhoenix — Paint Tool SAI: Line Tutorial
Published: 2008-11-24 17:37:01 +0000 UTC; Views: 117523; Favourites: 708; Downloads: 3724
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After learning SAI and seeing the greatness of it. I just had to share it with all my friends. And so I made a tutorial to show them even more of the greatness.And to also show those like me with bad hand-eye co-oridination thus bad line-art the greatness of it!
It's just THAT GREAT!
So Sai Line-Art Tutorial.
Edit: OKAY PEOPLE STOP FAVING THIS SERIOUSLY! Do you know how old this is? How badly it was written? How badly it was drawn? How bored I was for making it and how much better other tutorials out there are? I mean come on... STOP FAVING THIS!
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that's great but where can i find how to use the line tool and all of its extensivity?
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Please add links to better tutorials in your description, then maybe people will fav less... maybe, thank you
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To select multiple points:
click the Edit tool on the Pen layer, and choose the Select mode (first one)
then click and drag to select an area
all the points in this area will be selected
click the pressure tool
now apply pressure to one of the points
but look! all of the points had their pressure changed!
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You are an absolute life saver!
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Then with that tool selected, right click to deselect everything. Just figured this out after looking everywhere and not finding anything. So happy!
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I was looking for this solution everywhere! Thank you so much~
(Before this I would tab every point and line x'D)
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I've been using SAI for maybe 5-6 months now and I never really focused on the edit tool so thanks for explaining it to us! I didn't know you could connect lines!! XD
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this was really helpful, thank you so much!
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After more than 10 tutorial (or more than that? I can't remember anymore) Your tutorial were what I would call "Enlightment" to my Idiotness of my own. Because of you I finally able to embrace my next step. The COLORING!!!
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This actually is going to prove useful, thank you!
And you shut up that's nicely drawn.
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The verison of SAI I have will not give me lines with pointed ends... any idea on how to fix that?
fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/f/201…
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are you making sure to use the vector tools?
they are only accessible in Linework layers
in your box that you can choose new layers,
instead of choosing the option with the paper icon,
pick the one that has a pen over it. then all of your tools
will be different (those are your vectoring tools)
they are very different from your regular drawing tools,
but with some experimenting they can be extremely useful!
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Thank you for the reply as I never thought I would get one
I did figure out what was wrong... and it had nothing to do with my SAI funny enough my tablets drivers needed updated.
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This is awesome!!! Thank you so much! I don't even care that it's old because I've been so disheartened by trying to draw straight lines by hand for so long and hating myself because I never could. Thank you!!!!
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thank you very much for this tutorial, this was very very helpful!!!
(i faved this trololol(
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I know you said not to fav this and I am really sorry but it was so simple and easy to follow, thank you ~~
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This helped so much! I got it yesterday and couldn't find the line tool anywhere.
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"Badly drawn" you say?
Now I just feel terrible.
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omfg. I've been hand drawing all of my lines with the ink pen because I couldn't find the freaking line tool <_<...
Thank you SO MUCH.
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I think the select segment thing is
like
if you select a couple of segments,
and then decide to change one, all of the selected segment will change the same way...
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This is so going to help me! Thanks a bunch!
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This is a long process for me because my tablet is broken, so I draw the pictures on paper, and they end up anything but neat, then I have to scan them onto my computer open them in sai, and trace. All of this may take me up to 3 hours at most. Then there' the coloring
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It's different for me :S When I hit 'edit' it has different options, like 'translate CP' and 'stroke dup/translate'. I have no idea
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Me too. I figured out that the Translate tool is the same as the move tool in the tutorial.
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Or you could just use line 
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My lines are red!!! i can't edit them!!! how do i change it back!!! i've tryed everything i can find on the problem, but nothen' works. plzzzz help me!!!!
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my lines are all red when i try to edit them. how do i get it back to blue lines i can edit???
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All you have to do is right click with your mouse, and it will deselect everything
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what?? no not the color tool, i mean the lines you can edit. they turn red, and i can't edit them.
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There should be an option to change the colour of the lines.
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Ahhhhhh, thank you SO much! This is literally the most helpful tutorial I've seen on this software - or at least the first of its kind I stumbled across.
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thanks a lot! it was very helpful!
but a question!!!
I've downloaded SAI and it was only 2 MG!!! is it okay!? lol I mean isn't it a demo or something!? :-/
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is it possible to change vector to normal layer? :3
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Simple. Merge it down onto a blank normal (raster) layer.
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oohhhh really pretty simple 
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But... I learned how to work Sai from this... That's how good it is...
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In my addition on SAI it doesn't come with curves or lines...or pressure?
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Are you sure you have created a Linework/Vector layer? That's when the tools will pop. but if not, re-install is a good option.
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well if you got it free then you may have gotten one of the older versions or it could just be a glitch and you may want to re install it
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I loved it! It cleared me some doubts I had. Just a question. When I duplicate various lines, they become red with "Edit Tool" On, and then, if I erase one of those lines, all the red ones disappear at the same time and I don't know what to do to avoid this! D: I looked at internet but I don't find any info. Can you help me, please? TT_TT
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