How I set traditional lineart for digital painting (VIDEO)

[Sayuui]

Hello everyone! I have made a tutorial about this: many people do not seem to know that you don't have to put your layers on multiply mode to color a lineart that has been drawn traditonally. Also, you don't have to make a lineart digitally to make it look smooth!



I hope this is helpful for you guys, I'm looking forward to your feedback! <33333

[King-sama]

Is there a way we can do that in SAI? o3o

[Sayuui]

Is there a way we can do that in SAI? o3o

As far as I know, no. ^^ SAI is a very simple program in that way. But you don't have to do it on SAI! You can do either of these things:

1- Save it as PSD, open file on SAI and save it as SAI file;
2- Save the lines layer as PNG (the paper layer has to be invisible while you're saving).

[King-sama]

Won't that make it blank since the lines and the paper layer is the same? o.O

[Sayuui]

Won't that make it blank since the lines and the paper layer is the same? o.O

I'm not sure of what you mean ^^" but no. SAI doesn't have a paper layer, it might create one automatically when you save. If you save it as transparent png, the background will remain transparent. ^^

[akemicchi]

Is there a way we can do that in SAI? o3o

Actually, it's completely possible on Sai. On the layer you want to isolate the lineart from, go to Layer, then click Luminance to Transparency. After that, you can lock the layer and color on it to change the color of the lines.

What happens is the layer becomes greyscale, where the darker parts become opaque and the whiter parts become transparent. It's a really simple way to work with lineart, though. If you want it darker, you could always go over it, or just duplicate & merge the layer until it's opaque enough.

[Sayuui]

Is there a way we can do that in SAI? o3o

Actually, it's completely possible on Sai. On the layer you want to isolate the lineart from, go to Layer, then click Luminance to Transparency. After that, you can lock the layer and color on it to change the color of the lines.

What happens is the layer becomes greyscale, where the darker parts become opaque and the whiter parts become transparent. It's a really simple way to work with lineart, though. If you want it darker, you could always go over it, or just duplicate & merge the layer until it's opaque enough.

Oh. Thank you for that information! <33

[King-sama]

AKEMICCHI!!! You are alive!
Thanks for explination~ I gotta try that later, and see if I can actually understands it better o3o