Simple Shading Tutorial with Paint Tool SAI

[nat]

I was talking with my dear friend Weapon_X who has some trouble with shading without a tablet, so I made a simple tutorial .

I usually don't use vector for shading. But I use the same method with ink pen instead.
Both ways get the job done .

Hope it's useful and easy to understand.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask.

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[portgas d.ace]

hi...

thx for the explain...

but i have one question...what the name of the program you used in work??

 

[-Ren Boy-]

Weapon should be grateful if he is not i'm going to beat him up lol.

awww nat is doing something nice oioi, please tell me your only internet friends and not any thing more

it is a good tutorial, im going to TRY to to it with this small laptop tablet wannabe lol

 

[Googlez_kun]

good that i have a tablet

anyway very nice tutorial and it should help everyone who has problems with that
good job my germansister

 

[VASSiLi]

So do u use SAI and not Photoshop? Imho the second one is better, btw thank you for sharing this tutorial

 

[- aMt -]

haha I will not lie ..

I can't read this porue my English is shit, but I believe it is very useful for those who need it.

Thank you.

 

[Weapon_X]

WOW! NAT! IF ONLY I COULD SPAM "thanks" THIS INFINITE TIMES!

Woop woop! Finally, a tutorial I can understand properly LOL Extra, extra thanks to you.

I saved the tutorial, now I can use it without going on MH all the time.

Hehe any chance there will be an "advanced" shariding tutorial?

 

[nat]

hi...

thx for the explain...

but i have one question...what the name of the program you used in work??

I use Paint Tool SAI, http://sai.detstwo.com/sai/ , it's a program made for young japanese artists but developed into a something a bit more. If you wanna try it, the first month is free.
It's the only program I bought (50 dollars), since well I like it and it's cheap ^^

Weapon should be grateful if he is not i'm going to beat him up lol.

awww nat is doing something nice oioi, please tell me your only internet friends and not any thing more

it is a good tutorial, im going to TRY to to it with this small laptop tablet wannabe lol

he is grateful, but you were the one who sent me awaiiiiiii..Ok so I left after I saw TDA and tried to blame it on you ^^
lol
we are internet friends.

Good luck and let me know if it works!

good that i have a tablet

anyway very nice tutorial and it should help everyone who has problems with that
good job my germansister

I hope so, I put it as simple as I can. Hey Googlez, you know I always loved your language? the sound of it

So do u use SAI and not Photoshop? Imho the second one is better, btw thank you for sharing this tutorial

I use both actually ^^, I make all the coloring in SAI and then move to PS to make image treatment and effects. I tried cell shade in PS, it was good but a long process compared to SAI. And me being lazy, chose SAI for colors.

haha I will not lie ..

I can't read this porue my English is shit, but I believe it is very useful for those who need it.

Thank you.

, I'm sorry I put too much text, but you amt...you don't need a tutorial, lol. you're awesome.
Thanks for the support

WOW! NAT! IF ONLY I COULD SPAM "thanks" THIS INFINITE TIMES!

Woop woop! Finally, a tutorial I can understand properly LOL Extra, extra thanks to you.

I saved the tutorial, now I can use it without going on MH all the time.

Hehe any chance there will be an "advanced" shariding tutorial?

awesome! Funny I always wanted to do a tutorial but was too lazy. This time it started with a single picture and developed into a decent tut. soo happy, thank you Alex. I'm really glad it can be of help.

I tried to explain everything since you are new to the software, but if you don't understand anything or I missed a big chunk of explaination let me know.

The advanced tutorial would require too much effort at the moment, I'll make when the need arises...

 

[Weapon_X]

awesome! Funny I always wanted to do a tutorial but was too lazy. This time it started with a single picture and developed into a decent tut. soo happy, thank you Alex. I'm really glad it can be of help.

I tried to explain everything since you are new to the software, but if you don't understand anything or I missed a big chunk of explaination let me know.

The advanced tutorial would require too much effort at the moment, I'll make when the need arises...

Yeah it's the easiest tutorial to understand. Though colouring manga does take a long time though.

I was just wondering, I was shading and I am doing it by brush. Is that the correct way to shade? I'm doing it manually and it takes ages and you have to becareful not to go over the edges. For example, I'm colouring the sky but I gotta becareful not to go over the clouds etc, I had to zoom 1000% LOL

With Paintshop you can select a part and use the brush there without going over the edges. Is there a way with SAI?

 

[nat]

Brush, pen, vector anything is correct to make the perimeter closed. It's also good to choose a tool you're comfortable with.

wand tool (click w , if it doesn't work go to tutorial, I showed where the wand and select tool are).

If the lines are close then it does successfully select the region. If not, you have to close them with the brush, or pen or any small tool you by continuing the line.

Once you select a region you can brush inside, or fill, or put anything you want and it won't effect the outside of the chosen area.

 

[Weapon_X]

I did use the want tool but when I select a region on the pic, the WHOLE pic turns blue. It's the same Minato pic.

 

[nat]

just a sec

This is the wand panel. It shows how sensitive the color/line selection is
try changing to lower numbers, otherwise it will choose the entire image

 

[Weapon_X]

Wow, thanks Nat. ^_^

 

[nat]

I see it worked...awesome

 

[Orochimaru]

nice tuto nat
^^

 

[Egaki 21]

nice tuto i understand every step ^^

 

[QianQian]

OvO I like SAI's palette mixer! Maybe I should give SAI a try.

 

[nat]

Oro, Thank you so much XD

Thanks Egaki! It's honor to hear you say that ^^

Qian, yeah color mixer is
actually SAI has many things that can be passed as

 

[goldenhans]

The explanation of each step is excellent, thanks for the tuto nat =)

 

[nat]

No problem Hans, I hope it's useful ^^