• red- shade with a slightly darker shade of purple
• orange- slightly darker and more saturated shade of red
• yellow- i think like..a peach could work but make it a really light peach
• green- shade with darker and less saturated shade of blue or teal
• blue- shade with purple
• purple- a shade thats darker than the purple you’re using and maybe a little pink (MAYBE blue)
• pink- darker shade of red
• white- a really light lavender or blue..or i guess any really light colour??
• black- okay listen dont use pure black to colour anything unless you want to leave it with flat colours because you cant really shade black lol
• grey- a slightly darker shade of purple or blue (less saturated)
• brown- slightly darker and less saturated shade of purple or red

Pencil I use the pencil tool with SAI’s native paper texture both for sketching and for applying opaque color with no blending. Lower opacities give it the feel of different pencil hardnesses, while full opacity makes it more like a palette knife, laying down hard-edged, heavy color for detail work or eventual blending with other brushes. Ink Pen Mostly made this because I’m lazy and I didn’t want to have to keep turning my textures off/opacity up when I wanted to ink something (even though I don’t do it very often), or lay down flat colors. I find the line quality to be much more crisp than Photoshop, and you can manually adjust in-program stabilization to help smooth out hand wobbles. Round Brush The plain ol’ brush tool acts as sort of an in-between for me in terms of brush flow. It’s heavier than my usual workhorse brush, for faster color application and rough blending, but not as heavy as the pencil tool, which has no blending at all. I like to use the canvas texture on this brush to help break up the unnatural smoothness that usually accompanies digital brushes, but it works just fine without. Flat Brush A brush tool set to flat bristle is by far my favorite to paint with. I don’t use any textures with it because I think the shape of the brush provides enough of that by itself. I use it for everything from rough washes to more refined shaping and polish. It’s just GREAT.

Watercolor Best used for smooth blending, washes, gradients, and smoky atmospheric effects. Cloud Basically a grittier version of the watercolor tool, because too much smoothness weird me out. Good for clouds and fog, as the name suggests, or just less boring gradient fills.

To further stave off the artificially smooth look of digital painting, I almost always overlay some sort of paper texture, and it’s almost always this one, which I scanned and edited myself. You’re all welcome to use it, no permission required!

Using overlays in SAI is just as easy as using them in Photoshop. Just paste the texture into its own layer above everything you want it to apply to, and change the layer mode to Overlay. That’s it!

Want a more prominent texture? Up the contrast. Something more subtle? Lower the contrast or reduce the layer opacity. You can also use a tinted overlay to adjust the overall palette and bring a little more color unity to an otherwise disparate piece! Just be aware that too much texture can hurt the readability of the work beneath it, so I’d err on the side of subtlety.

• Compilation of Calming/Floral Gifs
• Compilation of Landscape/Nature Gifs
• Compilation of Space/Sky Gifs
• Compilation of Pixel Art
• Compilation of Cute Transparent Pixels
• Compilation of Creepy Pixel Art