Have you heard of Paint Tool SAI before?
If you haven't and if you're looking into a good program to begin drawing, I think that this would be an interesting program to look into!!
Some have been asking me what program I used for drawing Cos and the Cos-lings, well all along I've been using Adobe Photoshop... why?? Not really sure, but probably cause I've been using Photoshop for a long time in editing my photography pictures that I'm just very used to the hotkeys and interface of it... familiar ground :)
But then I always felt a limitation in drawing, that the drawing lines never felt smooth, always kinda looked like a crocodile teeth while I was drawing, or felt like I was on drugs and had a constant shaking of my arm... ngehh.... OR probably cause I didn't know there might have been other nicer features and brushes on Photoshop... probably just my own fault..
but then, I've seen a lot of other comic bloggers using the program "Paint Tool SAI" so I decided to give it a try... firstly? I wasn't familiar with it, so I stopped trying after a very short while, till I decided to try it again...
and oh gosh... I've never realized how smooth the lines were in this program, and how nice were the other stuff like Crayon, Airbrush, etc... I instantly fell in love with it!!! Now I'm really curious why I didn't notice this before when I tried it out...
But then again it ain't easy changing programs just like that, because all your templates and stuff are in Photoshop format... so it had to be another learning curve all over again for a new program!!
just for the fun of it, I gave it an hour of random trying out the brushes and colors, and I have no idea what happened, but this picture came out.... a re-make of Furi, version 2.0... but then again I think I'll stick back to the normal Furi.. this one takes too much time to draw XD
there's so much more stuff about Paint Too SAI that I can talk about, but let me get a little more familiar with the program, then I'll let you guys know how it goes!!
But hey, don't worry if you're coming from a Adobe Photoshop line, cause I've found out that you can tune the hotkeys on SAI to your own personal preference, and you can also save your drawings in a .psd (photoshop format) and continue your work on Photoshop after you're done with SAI, and most importantly, they do keep the Layers too!! :)
Paint Tool SAI, surely a program worth checking out~~ there's still much more to explore for me ~~ but of course it's a paid program so.. *cough*
but if you don't wanna use your precious money on a program, well here's another program worth checking out, kinda similar to Paint Tool SAI, but I haven't given the time to fully check out the features though... this program was introduced to me by Mrs. Bulat, and I think she uses this program?? She does some real awesome drawings though, check her out too!!
http://imbulat.blogspot.com/
so what's your favorite drawing program?? :)
