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Custom Acrylic Brushes [Paint Tool Sai]

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I’ve been making lots of custom brushes on Paint Tool Sai and decided to share it to the world! These are acrylic brushes that I created. I made each size and shape separate because 1) I’m lazy and 2) having separate size/shape brushes feels much more realistic than having one brush. Sorry to those who would prefer oils, I’ve only used acrylics on canvases.

I’d like to explain how to use these brushes in order to achieve the most realistic look. Acrylics have great covering and blending power, and are able to have a watercolor-y transparent look. Those who’ve used acrylics know what I’m talking about.  In order to achieve the exact “property” of acrylics that you want as you work, you must manually adjust the blending, dilution, and persistence. Also, for a drier look, you should set the bitmap as noise. Keep it low, around 10, and you’ll achieve the look shown next to Round Large in the picture shown.  And when you don’t need it, you can set it to 0 or no texture. This is why I didn’t set the bitmap to canvas. Also, as you add more layers of acrylics, the canvas texture gets covered over, another reason for not setting canvas as the bitmap. Just set the papertex as Canvas instead. It may sound like a hassle that will interrupt your workflow, but it’s not really a big deal. It’s rather like dipping your brush in water, or dabbing it on a paper towel, or adding more “pure” colored paint on your palette. Speaking of palettes, I also keep the scratchpad on and put my “pure” colors there. That way it feels more like I’m using a palette, therefore feeling more real.

Link to download the blotmap and all that stuff: drive.google.com/file/d/0B9Sme…

After downloading, move the blotmaps, elemaps, bitmaps, and papertex into their respective folders.

They were not made by me, they were made by empty-frames.deviantart.com/ and darlingmionette.deviantart.com…

If it’s not appearing for you, go to the place where you installed sai and click on start-sai, which will update sai so it shows up.

Hope it helped! ^.^

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RenwaldoHoek's avatar

hey uh i know this is old but it tells me to request access