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If you’ve looked into the options for digital painting software you’ve probably seen Paint Tool SAI.

This is a digital drawing & painting program for Windows originally developed back in 2004.

It was first released in Japan with a full Japanese interface but has been translated to English(and a few other languages).

It’s quite popular with anime & manga artists due to its Japanese roots, but you can use this for practically any type of art projects. Only problem is learning the SAI interface.

All of these tutorials are here to help you learn and they’re totally free.

Perfect for anyone new to the software who wants to start painting fast. You’ll find a huge variety of topics here and these tutorials should help you move from novice to confident artist in no time.

Paint Tool SAI Tutorial for Beginners

The very popular JelArts channel on YouTube put together this brief video on Paint Tool SAI for beginners.

It’s probably the best place to start because it covers a lot of what you’d need to know for getting started drawing and painting.

Brushes, selection tools, managing document sizes, changing colors, everything like that.

If you’ve ever painted in other software like Photoshop or Krita you can probably learn the SAI interface fast.

Still, it helps to have a guide and JelArts put together one incredible guide with this video.

Beginner SAI Tutorial(All My Tips)

As a follow-up to the tutorial above I also recommend this video for learning a few semi-advanced tips.

This video pushes beyond the absolute basics and forces you to think about what you’re doing as a workflow in SAI.

All of these tips again come from JelArts who has a lot to share in the way of digital painting.

Please note this video is fairly long totaling around 25 minutes so it’s not a quick watch.

I suggest bookmarking it for later so you can come back and soak up a few tips you might miss on your first viewing.

12 Useful Shortcuts for Paint Tool SAI

Speaking of painting tips I have to commend this awesome video for its narration, style, and easy-access for beginners.

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TheOdd1sOut is a massive YouTube channel with over 6 million subscribers.

All of their videos talk about something different and this one is especially valuable. It’s a series of quick shortcuts you can memorize to significantly improve your Paint Tool SAI workflow.

If you’re brand new to SAI these shortcuts may take a little time to memorize.

But they’re absolutely worth the effort and you’ll see the results in action once you’re doing a lot of painting in the software.

Make Your Drawings Better

Here’s a fairly generic but still very useful guide for improving your paintings in SAI.

The video totals 10 minutes and it’s broken down into different tips on how to handle your brushes, mix colors, and how to alter your drawings with the many tools built into SAI.

If you come from a Photoshop background you should recognize a lot of these tools.

But they all work a bit differently in SAI which can feel like re-learning everything over again.

While this tutorial probably won’t make you a brilliant artist in 10 minutes, it will help to improve your workflow and your output quality.

Color Inside the Lines(Clipping Group)

Working from lineart is super common with digital illustrations.

The tough part beyond line art is learning how to paint inside the lines and stay true to your original art. Thankfully this video offers a handy guide to the whole process focusing on clipping groups inside SAI.

You’ll learn how to create different selections to prevent your brushes from going outside the lines of your original work(scanned or digital).

Plus you’ll learn how to add clipping layers into your document to alter your colors with ease.

A very handy tutorial if you’re just getting into painting on the computer.

How To Use Layers

When you’re new to creating art with a tablet the whole thing can feel wonky.

And when you haven’t done much work in painting software it can feel even more confusing. One key point that few artists grasp right away is layering your work.

With this tutorial you’ll learn how to organize layers in Paint Tool SAI and how to work them into your painting routine.

Totaling around 20 minutes long this is the perfect guide for getting up-to-speed on layers as a digital artist.

My Paint Tool Sai Brush Settings

There’s one big component to creating awesome work that every artist needs to study: brushes.

This goes beyond simply picking different brush styles and designs.

You also need to think about opacity, pressure, and various settings that come along with painting software.

Check out this guide on the many Paint Tool SAI brush settings by YouTuber RaijinDIYT.

In this video he shares the brush settings from his Paint Tool SAI setup, so it’s not meant to be the optimal choice for absolute newbies.

Rather this gives you a glimpse into how a pro artist uses SAI brushes for day-to-day artwork.

How To Draw A Tree With SAI

We’ve finally come to a specific “how to draw X” tutorial with PaintTool SAI.

You knew there would be at least one, and let me tell you why I love these so much.

They remove the worry of creativity and overthinking your subject.

Instead you just sit down and paint exactly as the video does.

That way you’re learning the techniques rather than using extra brain power to think of a certain artistic style or subject matter or whatever else goes through your head while painting something.

I absolutely recommend this tree drawing tutorial because it’ll teach you SAI with a practical project. Definitely a nice one for beginners.

Painting the tree isn’t as difficult as you might think. However if you do struggle with this tut I recommend practicing it a few times a week until you get comfortable with it.

Lineart/Coloring/Shading Tutorial

Typically the workflow of a digital artist may start with the line art, then move through coloring and finally add some lighting/shading into the mix.

If you want to learn more about a solid SAI workflow have a look at this 15-minute video to get a fully narrated guide to the whole process.

It is fairly short and you should be able to keep up with it even if you’re not a stellar artist(yet!)

This vid is more about learning to use SAI rather than learning to color or draw or shade.

So the goal isn’t to master shading or coloring, but rather to get comfortable practicing that stuff in Paint Tool SAI.

Cell Shading Tutorial + Tips

Here’s another really awesome shading video with a focus on cell shading.

This is a specific technique that many artists use and it’s especially popular with digital art. The trouble is that if you’ve never tr

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