(Original Line Art)

Donut, a friend of mine in IRC taught me the basics in blogging SEO and Monetization, and so to pay him back (without being asked to), I introduced him to and taught him Paint Tool SAI.

Paint Tool SAI is a Japanese imaging software that I use for my 2D arts. Most Japanese artist use this and it’s very versatile. One of the feature that I like is the Vectors, because it’s very easy to use, you just have to point and click, then a line would be created. You could even choose if its a curve or a straight line.

(Donut’s Vectorized Version)

Let’s get back to topic.

So then, I taught him the basics of how to use the tools and shown him some of the special features. After that, I told him to experiment on it and draw some samples. Later, he gave me his work, it was very nice, considering that it’s his first use of it. Then afterward, he asked me how to do colors and shadings, I just told him  to watch a video of INO coloring Nagato in Sankaku Complex then follow the style used to color. Later on, I decided to do some quick coloring and show him what it should look like. But in the end, It took me so long to do the colors, because I got really interested in it, and I gave it more effort…

(Ichiro-Style! Version)

(Click Image for High Resolution Version)

I used 34 layers for this image, 33 of it are raster and 1 is a vector. it took me more or less 4 hours to do it. The final SAI file saved is about 235MB, and the Jpeg is 7.55MB.

SAI tools used:

• Raster
  • Pen
  • Air Brush
  • Brush
  • Blur
  • Bucket
  • Eraser
  • Water
• Vector
  • Curve
  • Pressure
  • Color
  • Select
  • Deselect

Tablet Used:

Genius G-Pen F610 6″x10″
(This Tablet has a lot of dead spots) T_T

Mainly this tablet is used for writing, but since I can’t afford a Wacom, I just bear with this, but as you can see, I still managed to make it nice… ^^,

You can visit Donut’s page here and his art blog here