Everyone!! After years and years, Paint Tool SAI is finally getting an upgrade! Go try the Paint Tool SAI 2 beta!
Just a few of the new features:
- 64 bit/multi-core support
- Font tool with text layers
- Bigger canvases! Up to 100,000 x 100,000px canvas size for 64 bit
- Bigger max brush size (up to 5000px)
- Circle and line rulers
- Perspective ruler (guide lines for 1 – 3 point perspective)
- Select/edit multiple layers at once
- Upgrade for free if you already have a SAI 1 license
Paint Tool SAI is my number one recommended art program for digital painters and this just makes it even better! The new font tool and canvas size limits, especially, should make it so much easier for people trying to make comics.
This is still in beta, so it’s untranslated and has some bugs. But it’s still great news! Go try it out!
are you fucking kidding me?! FONT TOOL? PERSPECTIVE???
CIRCLE AND RULERS???????Holy mother of god
OH SON the lack of circle has been the only reason I don’t use Sai. Uh ohhh…
FONT TOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Now here is a great idea for stump work, satin stitch and other projects. It was on the Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Inusdreamcosplay
This is brilliant.
These were made with mirror vinyl (bought from a Chinese seller) over craft foam held together with various glues.
This is the process / tutorial used.
Use the following chart when adhering materials so they stick well:
- Vinyl front to vinyl front: Super Glue / Krazy Glue
- Foam to vinyl front: Coat the foam in a very thin layer of hot glue, let it dry, then use Super Glue / Krazy Glue
- Foam to vinyl backing: Contact Cement / Contact Spray
- Foam to foam: Hot Glue (or your favorite method…this is my preferred)
Others have used contact cement to hold the foam to the vinyl backing but because contact cement smells like death to me, I prefer the contact spray adhesive instead.
Really love using this method as it’s fast, easy, and light. Luckily, my armor did not have any complex curves because if it did, I would have used Worbla instead.
tutorial: character aesthetics post
under a cut because this gets rather lengthy. it’s a time-consuming process, but well worth it! i provided as many pictures as i can!
font pack 02: ‘exo’ by yerihelps (download here)
High Fantasy / Epic Fantasy – Fantasy fiction set in or involving an alternative, entirely fictional (“secondary”) world, rather than the real, or “primary” world.
Good stuff
Stayed up way too late seeing if that hidden quest to get the flower crown was legit, I can now confirm that it is! Dorian’s even prettier now =D
The tldr version:
1. go to The Emerald Graves
2. jump on this tiny rock house 50+ times, doesn’t matter if you fall off
3. get the quest to gather 10 crystal graces, then turn it in
4 go to the secret underground stairwell in Emprise du Lion, the chest will be at the bottom
Cool Characters & Symbols
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I was looking for fonts recently and fell in love with many, so I figured I’d compile all my favorites. Some of them require a tweet or Facebook post to download. All credit goes to their respective makers.
SIMPLIFICA | OTAMA | CORADIUM | BARON NEUE | BROWNIE | LOT | CHOPLIN | SEQUI | KOMODA | CUTEPUNK | FARRAY | HIPSTELVETICA | HIGH TIDE | ANDERS | ORANIENBAUM | LANDSCAPE | ONTWERP | SALOME
I found some old art books today called ‘Celtic Art: The methods of Construction by George Bain’ Which, I found interesting. I only have 4 out of the 7, they are very old (From 55 years ago). I thought I would just share some scans from them, some people might find them useful. 🙂
Ohhhh horror vacui neat to see tutorials on it.
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