Anime often uses an original drawing style known as “Chibi” (Japanese: ちび). In it, they try to portray the characters as deliberately cute and small.

However, drawing a good chibi is not so easy. We will try to draw a charming girl in a classic Japanese school uniform - sailor fuku.

Drawing the virtual singer Hatsune Miku

Let's learn to draw and color Hatsune Miku, a famous virtual singer.

Miku is 16 years old, has bright turquoise hair and easily recognizable clothing.

Drawing a real Japanese Dragon

Everyone has ever wanted to draw a dragon. Japanese dragons look truly incredible.

In this tutorial you will learn how to draw a Japanese dragon in SAI Paint Tool.

Art in "Realistic" style

An extensive tutorial on creating a realistic portrait in Paint Tool Sai.

Features of this type drawings are more rich colors and the lack of visible line art boundaries.

How to Create Art in SAI Paint Tool

A detailed guide to creating high-quality Art.

Today we will look at drawing full-fledged art in Paint Tool Sai. We will draw a sunbathing girl at the height of the swimming season.

Detailed character drawing

• How to color a drawing

  Let’s take a closer look at several techniques for coloring finished line art.

  In Paint Tool Sai, brushes completely imitate real artist tools - watercolor paints, a ballpoint pen and even the famous Copic drawing markers.

• Learn to draw Eyes

  Step-by-step instruction about how to draw eyes from scratch in a few minutes.

  Let's look at standard and easy approaches to drawing in the SAI Paint Tool.

• We add volume to the drawing and paint it

  A lesson in which we will easily learn how to add volume to a simple contour sketch.

• How to draw lips

  Lips are often a key element in a portrait - they can show the character’s sensuality or, conversely, his stiffness and dryness.

  This tutorial will help you learn a simple technique for drawing realistic lips.

• Drawing hair

  In this lesson we will look at one of the options for drawing hair in anime style and learn how to make high-quality line art on a graphics tablet in Paint Tool Sai.

Drawing the background

• Learn to draw a sunset

  The sunset is always very beautiful and beautiful, so it often serves as a backdrop for romantic manga, comics or anime.

  In the next step by step lesson, we will show you how to draw a beautiful sunset in Sai.

• How to draw snow

  Winter is a wonderful time of year, everything around is white and white and pleasing to the eye. For an artist who paints this season, the most important thing is to correctly convey this incredible atmosphere.

  In today's tutorial you will learn how to draw falling snow and snowflakes in Paint Tool Sai.

• Drawing the water surface

  Water is a key element in the background of many drawings and art. The correct image of the water surface makes them pleasing to the eye.

  In this lesson we will learn how to draw one of the simplest, but cleanest and most effective options for water surface.

• Learn to draw crystals

  Any crystal looks very unusual. They come in completely different shapes and types.

  In this tutorial we will learn how to draw a beautiful classic crystal in Paint Tool Sai.

• How to draw ice cubes

  This time, we will tell you how to draw and paint realistic ice.

  Despite the fact that ice can come in different types and sizes, the technique for drawing ice is almost always identical.

• Learning to draw the earth

  To skillfully draw landscapes, you need to carefully work out each element, following a clear sequence.

  This lesson will help you learn how to draw earth and stones in Paint Tool Sai.

• Drawing the night starry sky

  This tutorial will help you learn how to draw a beautiful night sky in Paint Tool Sai, which can be either a separate picture or complement any art.

• How to draw fire

  Not a difficult lesson in drawing fire, using the example of a candle flame.

  Let's learn how to draw eye-catching flames in Paint Tool Sai.

Grass and trees

• How to Draw Grass

  When drawing the background of a forest or mountain landscape, you understand how important it is to draw the grass correctly so that it does not spoil the overall impression of the drawing.

  Get acquainted with one of the fastest and easiest to learn techniques for drawing grass.

• How to draw a tree

  Most people think that drawing a tree is very easy. This is partly true, but it needs to be painted correctly to make the wood look natural and realistic.

  Let's try to draw a tree and foliage ourselves.

• How to draw sakura

  This time we will learn how to draw not only the tree itself, but also its flower in Paint Tool Sai.

  This method drawing is very interesting because it does not require any colossal skills and is suitable for beginner artists.

Drawing for the little ones

• Drawing a heart

  How to draw a heart? - Easily!

  The simplest tools and basic techniques of the program. We will look at all this in a new lesson on creating a heart.

• Drawing a cartoon face

  A lesson on how to draw a funny cartoon face quickly and without any experience.

On different platforms. Of course, the most popular was and remains Photoshop program. However, the developers have not forgotten about those who want to draw on a computer, but have no particular desire to understand the huge number of functions and a rather complex interface. Editors have been created for such users, which are essentially simplified versions of Photoshop. These include the recently released development of Japanese specialists from the company SYSTEMAX Paint Tool Sai. Its first version was released in 2006. Our article is about how to draw in Paint Tool Sai. But first let's give detailed description the program itself.

Editor Paint Tool Sai. Possibilities

The main advantage of this editor is that there is absolutely nothing superfluous in it. As in the Photoshop editor, working with images in this program is done using layers, which is, of course, extremely convenient. The possibilities for toning and color correction are not as wide as in Photoshop, but there are enough tools for creating sketches and rough drawings. Pleases and quite large Drawings in Paint Tool Sai can be created using graphics tablet. Support for these devices is implemented in the editor simply brilliantly.

The selected tool follows the mouse as accurately as possible, and the strokes are even smoother than in Photoshop. This makes the program simply indispensable for artists creating comics.

The editor's interface is not particularly beautiful, but it is simple and accessible. There are hotkeys for almost any function of the program, which can save the user a huge amount of time.

Basic Paint Tools

We'll tell you how to draw in Paint Tool Sai below. First, let's get acquainted with the editor's tools. It is not as wide as in Photoshop, but it is quite sufficient for quickly creating drawings and high-quality photo processing. There are only eight main tools in the program:

1. Magic Wand Tool. They can be used to highlight large areas of a picture at once, painted in the same color.
2. Lasso tool. Using it, you can make selections of the required area of ​​complex shape.
3. Rectangular Marquee Tool. The tool is intended, as the name suggests, to limit rectangular areas.
4. Scaling. For ease of use, the image can be enlarged or reduced.
5. Eyedropper tool.
6. Moving the canvas.
7. Rotate the canvas. If necessary, the image can be expanded.
8. Move a layer.

If desired, you can switch to one of two layer editing modes - raster and vector.

Raster tools

Drawing in Paint Tool Sai in raster mode is possible using the following tools:

• marker;
• airbrush;
• "Water" tool;
• Acrylic tool;
• pens;
• Watercolor tool;
• brushes;
• pencil;
• fills;
• "Paper" tool;
• eraser.

In addition, there are various variations of these funds.

Vector tools

Tool Sai in vector mode? To create such images, this editor provides tools such as “Line”, “Curve”, “Polyline”, “Line Modifier”, “Handle”, “Line Thickness Modifier”, editing, pressure and line color, selection and deletion .

Additional program features

If desired, you can install third-party brushes and canvas textures in Paint Tool Sai. You can also create them using the editor itself. The program opens not only sketches made using it, but also files of other formats (tga, jpeg, png, bmp). It is also possible to work with images created in the Photoshop editor and saved in psd format.

How to draw in Paint Tool Sai?

If you need to draw a soft, smooth line, you should use the Pen tool. Clear pixels with visible pixels are done with a pencil. The Airbrush is designed to create “shaggy” looks. Then, when you need to make a line with a smooth beginning and end, you should use a brush. You can create selections not only with the Lasso and Rectangular Marquee tools, but also with the Selection handle. If necessary, it can be easily removed using a similar deselect product. To paint a large area, select it and use the Fill tool.

Now let's talk about how to draw in Paint Tool Sai in vector mode. Unfortunately, vector lines created using this program still lose clarity when enlarged. However, you can bend them by moving the nodes, just as in Draw them with the Pen tool, similar to the raster one. If desired, the line thickness can be changed in one click. The “Thickness” tool is intended for this purpose. You can draw both smooth (Curve) and broken lines (Polyline). The Line Modifier tool is designed to adjust the line itself or its nodes.

The colors needed for coloring can be selected from the color palette located at the top of the program. You can select the desired shade using the Eyedropper tool.

How to install brushes and textures?

Now let's see how to install Tool Sai. First of all, you need to unpack the archive with brushes and open the folder with the editor. Next, the brush shape (bmp format) is installed in the blotmap folder. Then you should open it in any text editor(for example, in the Notepad program) file brushform.conf and enter l.blotmap/name.bmp there, where name is the name of the file with the brush. Save the file in the same folder. Now you can start using the downloaded brushes. Having drawn them yourself, you should simply save them in bmp format. The following procedure is the same.

Textures in this program are uploaded in almost the same way. Unpack the archive and open the folder with Paint Tool Sai. Next, copy the texture files to the clipboard and load them into the brushtex folder. Open the brushtex.conf file in a text editor and write l.brushtex/name.bmp in it. Instead of name we put the name of the texture. Save the file and use it to create original images. You can draw a texture in the same way as a brush in the Paint Tool Sai program itself. In this case, the file is also saved in bmp format.

We hope you now understand in general terms how to use Paint Tool Sai. The program is unusually simple, and its functionality can be understood by a person familiar with other graphic raster or vector editors, will not be difficult. And it won’t be at all difficult for a beginner to draw with its help.

Author of the lesson: Miyok is a wonderful girl, to whom we are all very grateful for translating such cartoons as Ever After High into Russian. Miyok also recorded several video lessons on SAI program Paint Tool. If you always wanted to learn how to draw in SAI, but you didn’t know where to start, then this lesson will just help you. Like all the subsequent ones, which we will publish a little later.
In this lesson you will learn the basics of working in SAI, as well as basic brushes.
As we know, many people don’t have blender brushes in their starter kit, so we found a file with similar brushes for you.

Download blender brush for Paint Tool SAI

Now another very important point, which may be useful to you in the future - how to install new brushes in Paint Tool SAI.

To install brushes, find the folder with installed program, most often it is located at: c:\Program files\Paint Tool SAI
How to add brushes to Paint Tool Sai:

1. Copy the files from the blotmap (shape brush) and elemap (shape brush) folders and paste them into the corresponding folders in your Sai.

2. Copy files from toolnrm (tools) to your Sai toolnrm folder. Files from this folder should be renamed depending on your own tools (meaning numbering) (for example, if the name of the last tool is 09.ini, then new ones should be named starting from 10: 10.ini, 11.ini, 12 .ini and so on).

3. If the new textures and\or blotmaps\elemaps have the same names as the ones you already have, you need to rename the files and add them to your Cy corresponding folders, and make changes to those INI files from the toolnrm folder, refers to those textures\blotmaps\elemaps. Open the INI file, find the "brfnam" and "texnam" fields and enter your new filenames there without the extension.

EXAMPLE:
brfnam=Your_new_brush_form_name
texnam=Your_new_texture_name

4. Edit brushform.conf (the notepad where all the brush names are written) to add the names of the files you just copied.

If you don't change any filename, add this to the list:

2, elemap\Bristle.bmp
2, elemap\Bristle2.bmp
1, blotmap\Spread.bmp
1, blotmap\Distribution And Noise.bmp

If you have changed some file names (see point 3), what should you do instead of adding new file names, as in the following scheme:

1, blotmap\Your_new_blotmap_name.bmp
2, elemap\Your_new_elemap_name.bmp

It is important that it all comes together: all file names and paths must match each other! This means that if you change something, you must make sure that you change every name related to the brush/texture itself.

Graphic editors are an important tool that is widely used in their daily work not only by professional designers, but also by ordinary users. Lightweight, fast and undemanding programs allow you to solve most drawing and basic image processing tasks without resorting to Photoshop.

If you need to draw something from scratch, then this program is ideal: in fact, it is an advanced version of MS Paint with in-depth and expanded functionality. You don't need to be a professional artist or designer to know how to draw a figure, building or person in Paint Tool SAI: the intuitive interface allows anyone to master this editor.

Paint Tool SAI Tutorials

Nine video tutorials contain comprehensive information on how to properly install and use Paint Tool SAI and are designed for a minimum user level of training. Seven half-hour lessons cover the basic aspects of working with the editor, for example, how to insert a picture into Paint Tool SAI or how to draw people, and two short two-minute videos show how to remove the trial version and how to install additional brushes in the program. In total, the video course contains three and a half hours of pure information for those who want to understand how to draw in Paint Tool Sai.

We study the main features of the program and learn to choose the right brush for the job.

Learning to draw a person's face correctly.

We add realism and volume to the drawing using shadows and work with colors.

Activate full version programs without purchase.

We add custom brushes to the editor for wider drawing possibilities.

Learning to work with different types hairstyles and decorate them correctly.

We master working with each layer separately and special effects - blur, shadows, gradients and others.

Many people work with Photoshop to create graphic files. Photoshop is truly universal, but its more common use is not for simple drawing, but for working with visualization.

If you love drawing anime characters or want to start doing so, then good choice will enjoy Paint Tool Sai. This is a graphics application accessible to everyone, focused primarily on drawing in the LineArt style. This is the style in which anime and manga are drawn, which is why using the Sai Paint Tool application has gained immense popularity among anime fans.

How to use Paint Tool Sai

Let's start with the fact that it is intended for tablet use, but it works much faster than the Photoshop described above, as you will see as soon as you take the first steps.

So, let's learn how to work with Paint Tool Sai:

• You should start, of course, by installing the program. To do this, go to the official website of Paint Tool Sai (http://www.systemax.jp/en/sai/ is suitable for English) and download it to your computer or tablet.
• It is convenient to learn how to use Paint Tool Sai from a ready-made sketch. So first, either draw and scan a sketch, or find a suitable one graphic file in the Internet. Then open it in the Paint Tool Sai editor.
• Open a new layer. You can find the buttons to do this in the program in the middle of the right menu. For convenience, we will again focus on English language. Find “Layer” (Layer), then select “New Layer” there.
• Then open the layer for LineArt - first go there in “Layer”, and then select “New Linework Layer”.
• Everything you have done should be displayed on the screen: Layer 1- this will be the original drawing, Layer 2- the second layer that you opened, and Linework1— layer for LineArt.
• Using Paint Tool Sai's graphic tools is no more difficult than using Abobe Photoshop.
• As in Photoshop, tools will make your work much easier; for example, an airbrush will make it easy to draw an oval.

• Let's try to circle the original image. To do this, use the “Curve” tool - we outline either the entire sketch, or what we consider necessary. If you want the sketch not to interfere, you can periodically turn it off - clicking on the eye icon, which can be easily found in the layers panel, will help.
• If the line is somehow not the same as you need, just click “Edit” and correct it to the right option. You can also correct sketch defects in Paint Tool Sai - by changing the thickness of the lines, correct all inaccuracies.

• For coloring, use the Magic Wand tool (in difficult cases, the Sel Pen is used as an alternative).
• First of all, it will be convenient to color the most significant areas of the drawing. After that, go to the bottom layer and paint all the small details. Then, for beauty and finishing touches, return to the line layer and outline the shadow lines. Then add highlights and color the shadows.

The instructions described above are enough to start using Paint program Tool Sai. More detailed studies of drawing techniques and the capabilities of individual tools can be easily mastered in the future as needed.

Happy anime drawing!

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