Simply trace along one of your sketched lines placing anchor points along the way. Curve behaves something like the pen tool in Illustrator but doesn’t require you to worry about handles.
Curve – Probably the most useful drawing tool ever made and for some reason not in any other painting program that I’ve found. The ones you’ll want to master are as follows: Now you’re presented with the totally awesome linework tools. I’m going to start with a quick sketch of Keep I did for one of a series of polaroid pictures that will scroll during the ending credits of the game. This grants you access to a Pandora’s box of usefulness. and import, or just do it in SAI, it’s perfectly capable) is to click this awesome “New Linework Layer” button right here. What we’re concerned with are the linework tools.įirst thing to do after getting your sketch scanned and set up how you like it (you can do that in Photoshop/Gimp/Painter etc. You can easily download a fan translation though, with the bonus of having the software unlocked, but it’s not that expensive and I hope you’ll purchase a legal license from the company for the $60 or so it costs now… even if you can’t actually ultimately use the legal, Japanese version… o_O After loading up you’ll notice that the interface is relatively simple compared to other paint programs, and while there are some advanced tools such as different types of brushes (crayon, acrylic, watercolor) and brush shapes, density settings, stroke/pressure stabilization, etc., I won’t be going into those today. It may not compare to the professional hand-drawn techniques used by manga artists and their tireless teams of assistants, but thanks to a few ingenious tools, it can provide editable, pixel perfect line art quite quickly and much more easily than other vector-based art programs.Īs far as I can tell, the software has never been officially translated into English, and even the website’s English is spotty at best. In comes Easy Paint Tool SAI, an awesome line art tool from tiny developer Systemax, who apparently still exist, but you could be fooled by their website. Drawing these lines is an incredibly difficult and arduous process – one that aspiring artists go to school to master and then do for years tracing over a manga artist’s sketches before ever dreaming of drawing something of their own. 
Unlike American comics, which take their time inking with heavy, shapely lines and large pools of black and color panels to make pictures readable, Japanese manga is generally done in black&white and is hundreds of panels long, and since no color will be applied requires a very fine attention to creating thin, perfectly readable line art quickly. One invaluable program in my repertoire is a strange little painting tool from the land of holographic pop idols and gameshows that hit guys in the balls: Japan.
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