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After that last rebloged post I felt like putting together some artist memes too, based on my own experiences XD

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Hey! So I really love you art and also lapidot woah! What program(or medium) do u use to do most of your art? Also like how do u do brushes because I use photoshop and am a noob. 💚💙👌

I use Paint Tool Sai! here are my updated brushes:

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◯ ⭒ ݁ . ✶ So I asked her if she wanted to dance with me, down at the festival. @dubuyunniechi

I expected her to say no, but a smile broke across her face, bigger than I’d ever seen her smile before.

She grabbed my hand and said—and I will never forget this, as long as I breathe—she said, “Not yet.”

And she kissed me. And I kissed her. ｡ ☾ ˚ ˖࣪ ◌ ＊ ՞ ˖

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I’ve been getting a lot of asks lately about the brushes and textures I use in my work, so here’s a BIG FAT REFERENCE POST for those of you who were curious! Bear in mind that I’m really lazy and don’t know what half the settings do, so don’t be afraid to experiment to figure out what works best for you :>

BRUSHES

Pencil I use the pencil tool with SAI’s native paper texture both for sketching and for applying opaque color with no blending. Lower opacities give it the feel of different pencil hardnesses, while full opacity makes it more like a palette knife, laying down hard-edged, heavy color for detail work or eventual blending with other brushes. Ink Pen Mostly made this because I’m lazy and I didn’t want to have to keep turning my textures off/opacity up when I wanted to ink something (even though I don’t do it very often), or lay down flat colors. I find the line quality to be much more crisp than Photoshop, and you can manually adjust in-program stabilization to help smooth out hand wobbles. Round Brush The plain ol’ brush tool acts as sort of an in-between for me in terms of brush flow. It’s heavier than my usual workhorse brush, for faster color application and rough blending, but not as heavy as the pencil tool, which has no blending at all. I like to use the canvas texture on this brush to help break up the unnatural smoothness that usually accompanies digital brushes, but it works just fine without. Flat Brush A brush tool set to flat bristle (try saving this bitmap file to your elemap folder if your version of SAI doesn’t have it) is by far my favorite to paint with. I don’t use any textures with it because I think the shape of the brush provides enough of that by itself. I use it for everything from rough washes to more refined shaping and polish. It’s just GREAT.

Watercolor Best used for smooth blending, washes, gradients, and smoky atmospheric effects. Cloud Basically a grittier version of the watercolor tool, because too much smoothness weird me out. Good for clouds and fog, as the name suggests, or just less boring gradient fills.

TEXTURE OVERLAY

To further stave off the artificially smooth look of digital painting, I almost always overlay some sort of paper texture, and it’s almost always this one, which I scanned and edited myself. You’re all welcome to use it, no permission required!

Using overlays in SAI is just as easy as using them in Photoshop. Just paste the texture into its own layer above everything you want it to apply to, and change the layer mode to Overlay. That’s it!

Want a more prominent texture? Up the contrast. Something more subtle? Lower the contrast or reduce the layer opacity. You can also use a tinted overlay to adjust the overall palette and bring a little more color unity to an otherwise disparate piece! Just be aware that too much texture can hurt the readability of the work beneath it, so I’d err on the side of subtlety.

Hope that helps!

-L

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Hi! Sorry if this has been asked before but what brush do u use for the recent doodle? Have a nice day!

Hi! These are the settings. Got the dirt texture from here https://painttoolsaibrushes.splstc.com/painttool-sai-textures/ And thanks, you too!

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Ghostly what brushes do u use btw

hiiii all my brushes r from Sai here r my main onessss

edit: examples fixed ^_^;

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Some brushes since I haven’t updated them in a couple years. Sketch, lineart, and painting brush.

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Background Tutorial

requested by ion4ever. sorry it took me so long to do this for you but hopefully I was of some help? 

Notes:

I use CS6, and this was mostly done with default hard round brush at around 50% opacity or higher, 100% flow, and size pressure on. I made some random brushes for the greenery by modifying the default ones.

always use a large canvas. I go about 3000px x 3000px.

with enough practice, painting backgrounds like this will be a fairly quick affair. this one, for example, took about 30 minutes? it’s just a matter of time/experience. :)

So yeah, good luck doing backgrounds, and have fun!! :D

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I think I'm too afraid to be happy

Because whenever I do get too happy

Something bad always happens.

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Title:Matrimonio mori

Big 💦

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