Open the brush template from the Attachments.
Paint tool sai custom brushes how to#
You can download brushes from the web and save them in your elemap folder in Paint Tool SAI, but it's important to know how to create your own brush for specific purposes. Our very own custom brush for the fox’s fur. Now that our coloring is close to being finished, we can move to the fun part and create Pay close attention to the eyes, because they are one of the most Looks a lot better! Now that our shadows and highlights are all in the right places, we can add more details, especially to the face of our fox. Then, for more effect, choose bright orange and add it to the areas where the light will fall directly. In this case, the light source will be from Mr. At first, take warm brown and paint all highlighted areas. Create a New Layer on top of the shadows layer, and set its mode to Overlay. So, take this color and apply it to the dark areas of our fox. When using a Multiply layer, paint with soft colors, and you’ll get better results. Why not black, you may ask? One tip: pure black color for shadow is never a good idea. Take the AirBrush and choose a pale brown color for the shadows. Waffle! On top of our coloring details layer, create a New Layer and set its mode to Multiply.
What about the small details, such as fur? I’ll show you a trick for them soon. Some detailing is fine, but don’t put too much work in-enjoy the process. It's starting to look like a cunning little fox! Step 2Īfter you've painted colors on the line art, we can move on to the detailing. Don’t worry about how clean is it, because we’ll get into detailing soon. When you feel satisfied with them, create a New Layer on top, and now we came to the fun part: coloring the line art. At this stage you can be rough and untidy, but that’s fine, because we need this layer only to envision the color placement.Ĭontinue putting colors under the line art layer. Take an AirBrush and apply the basic colors for our fox. Then create a New Layer on top, and Clipping Group it to the main color layer. If some parts remained gray, paint on them with the Pen. Then take the Bucket tool and fill the gray shape with orange. Lock the gray shape of our fox by choosing Preserve Opacity, and take the main color for our fox-in this case orange. Now we'll add color to this sad gray… Make him bright and happy. We need that to always stay inside the lines while painting. Our clean sketch is ready for coloring! Create a New Layer under this line-art layer, take the Pen, and fill our fox with solid gray color. Waffle, refining all the details, but don’t work too much on that-we need it only to apply colors in the right places, and in the results we’ll paint on these lines. I chose it because it makes the fox more interesting, as if he has something to hide.Īfter choosing the tail, delete all other variants and Merge Down Layer, and then turn its opacity to 20-30% and create a New Layer on top. In the end, I go with the tail that covers his legs. You can do that by creating a New layer for each variation and turning its visibility on and off for comparison. I also decided to experiment with the tail and drew four of them to see which one I liked the most. At this stage, be creative, and have fun with sketching. So, we can draw bigger ears and eyes, add more volume to the fur, and whatever else comes to your mind. But also, as we're drawing in cartoon style, we can make some considerations and draw some parts bigger or smaller. Now we can refine our sketch and add more details. Look at real foxes to get the feel of their body structure.Īfter you’ve finished with the main shapes, turn the opacity of the current layer to 20-30% and create a New Layer on top. For legs we just use lines-so we know where they’ll be placed on the drawing. We begin with overall shapes, for all its body parts using mostly round and smooth shapes, such as circles. Take a Sketch or Pen and start sketching out our fox. We need it that big, because we will work on small details and want our work to be comfortable. Create a New Canvas about 3200 x 2400 px. They are cute, red and furry-that’s all I want for now! My fox will have a name: Mr. You can look at pictures and photos to understand how animals look and what their body structure is like.Īs there is such a big choice of cute animals, I've decided to stop on foxes.
Our first step is to make a sketch of our animal character. Make a Sketch of the Animal Character Step 1 In this tutorial we will make a cute fox character, learn how to draw fur for animals, and create our own custom brush in Paint Tool SAI.