Here are a couple of pencil brushes that I made for Paint Tool SAI in order to mimic graphite pencil, to install them follow these instructions*: -Extract the RAR into your Paint Tool SAI folder (install 7zip if you don't have winRAR). -Run start-sai.exe to install the textures. -Create a new 'Brush' and manually adjust the settings like you see here, you could also use the Marker, Watercolor, Airbrush. I recommend using these brushes on A4 page size at 150 DPI and with stroke stabilizer at level 3 but use whatever you feel comfortable with. Feel free to adjust the pressure to your taste, some press harder than others so you may have to adjust. Change the Simple Circle to Flat and now you have a square tip shading pencil. (*) Update if you're having issues with the start-sai.exe, download this pack and extract it into your main SAI directory (where the SAI program is), the brushes should show up automatically next time you run SAI), they may overwrite your brush list but I've put them at the bottom so unless you have any brushes there, it shouldn't be any problem. As an extra, I've included a set of 'Airbrush Pencils' which are my favorite brushes in SAI. The easiest way to install new brushes and textures in SAI is to understand how it works. I’ve personally found that tutorials or step-by-step guides are more confusing rather than helpful. My approach is to explain how SAI works instead. Don’t worry, it’s not complicated! HOW TO FIND WHERE PAINTTOOL SAI IS INSTALLED ON YOUR COMPUTER Locate the PaintTool SAI icon with which you launch it on your computer. It can be located on your Start Menu, or your desktop. Right click on the icon and you’ll get a menu like this. Click on Properties. A window will appear. Click on the Open File Location button. A new window will appear. This is where your SAI is installed with all its system files. Not that difficult, huh? THE SAI FOLDERS The only folders that interest us are blotmap, brushtex, elemap and papertex. If you open any of these folders you’ll see they contain BMP files, which are image files just like JPGs or GIFs. Blotmap and elemap contain the brushes shapes (“maps”). There are two types of maps which behave differently, which is why they are kept in two separate folders. They are the ones you choose here, on the brush panel: brushtex contains brushes textures. A brush can have a certain shape and it can have a texture.
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