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hello :D ah i see u got Sai :D i find myself using sai over photoshop these days, mostly because of 2 things: line stability tool and watercolor (blurring) tool. if you want nice smooth lines, click on Brush, then look up the top middle-rightish, where it says Stabilizer, and choose from a drop down menu of 0 to S-7. i personally use s-3 a lot, as it adds a lot of curve but yet maintain enough control for me to bend the lines to my will :o the watercolor tool, i think by default, blends colors together really well, but i prefer to make it so it's like a blur tool in photoshop, except it works even better. you can use my settings: Min Size: 60% Density: 24 (simple circle) (no texture) Blending:42 Dilution:53 Persistence: 86 Uncheck Keep Opacity Smoothing Prs:100% [Advanced Settings] Quality:2 Edge Hardness:36 Min Density:0 Max Density Prs.:100% Hard <-> Soft:90 good luck and lemme know how that goes :D |
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how are you at drawing on regular paper? most of the skills are transferred from there to the tablet :o dont expect the tablet to suddenly transform you into an elite artist o.o;; but yes, generally a bigger tablet than 4x6 is better for your hands. just dont go crazy and get the biggest model there is :P im using a 10.25x6.5 (cintiq 12xw from wacom) and that's a great improvement. any bigger than that, and you might find yourself having trouble putting that on your lap or finding space on your desktop :o if you don't wanna pay $1,000, you can try the Intuos4 Medium (8.8x5.5 area) and its only $350 because it doesn't have a screen like the Cintiq series. as with any tablet, be sure to check to see if the tablet driver works at all. to check, i lift my pen from the tablet, then place it somewhere else back on the tablet. the mouse cursor should immediately 'jump' to the new location. if it doesn't, then it's acting like an expensive mouse where you gotta drag the cursor everywhere. D: my friend didn't know for the first week, and she had the hardest time drawing. =/ |
