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DarlingMionette β SAI Tutorial - Custom Brushes
Published: 2010-04-26 22:28:57 +0000 UTC; Views: 367521; Favourites: 7761; Downloads: 7305
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Wheeeeeee another tutorial
This time on custom brushes in SAI! <3 I love custom brushes. It was getting so long that I tourniquet'd my custom brush settings off of it >.> But if anyone sees a brush exampled up there that you'd like, just ask and I'll copy the stats for you ENGLISH SAI: [link]
Official Website: [link]
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[link] <- Custom Brush Suppliment Tutorial. Has all my brush settings.
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NOTE: This deviation is a little outdated. You can now download "DarlingMionette's SAI Resources" at the bottom of the Custom Brush Supplement.
It is a .zip file of all my brush settings, textures, blank do-it-yourself resources, instructions for creating custom content, and associated start-sai.exe file that lets you register these files to your SAI without editing the .conf files manually :3 All in one convenient place. All of my current brush settings have been updated to match the files in the .zip file, and contain image examples for each. Be sure to read the README's! If you like it, then drop me a +fav on this deviation
. Thanks!
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you are an absolute blesSING FOR MAKING THIS. ive been looking for like tutorials on how to actually make your own texture brushes for sai and you're the very first person i've found that's gone into detail about not just the brushes themselves and what the other brush settings mean, but on the actual customisation part itself and I Cry So Hard :'''') so thank you so much for this, friendly :''''')
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Thank you so much, just bought sai today and doing all the setting up
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are the brushes supposed to stay even when you close the software??? because every time i re-open SAI all my custom brushes are gone.
i'm not talking about brush textures!!!!
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erm the link i downloaded just asked me for a bunch of my personal info....
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Only thing is, mine refuses to respond to pressure and it's really... freaking... annoying...
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the first try of creating a new brush type worked but i coudn't create more..
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This helped a lot! I love your "Parrot" the best.
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I have the valid version, I got it for my birthday, but I don't have start sai or do it yourself or anything like that! What happened?
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Hello, I thought maybe you could help me out with something, if you have the time that is c:
Β Β So I wasn't sure if I had an authentic copy of sai as I downloaded it for free but it does have the "do-it-yourself" folder. I opened the template in sai and drew on it and saved it as a .bmp to the elemap folder and than opened sai with the start-sai icon. But the brush I made wasn't there. I've made two at this point and neither show up, and I'm a tad bit confused. Maybe I am looking in the wrong places? Or are we supposed to draw on the same layer as the template? It had two layers when I opeened it and I drew on the blank one.Β
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The lack of the file seems to be based on the version of Sai that you have. I bought mine two weeks ago, but meh, idk, whatever. Still didn't have the folder. So, I found this:
empty-frames.deviantart.com/arβ¦
Download file, save to PC, and unzip. Inside is the infamous "Do-It-Yourself" Folder. Move it to your Sai directory (mine is located at C:\PaintToolSAI). Open the PS file in SAI, and save it to the same location as a bitmap, or .bmp, file. Delete the PS file.
You now have an empty brush template. Save your brushes as .bmp files and copy to your 'elemap' Folder, as DarlingMionette has already described.
But wait! There's more!
In your directory, open the CONF file labeled brushform with Notepad, and add your brush to the list in this format:
2,elemap\[yourBrushNameHere].bmp
(Brush name must be exactly as it is labeled in your file, omit brackets.
Save the file, and restart SAI.
Your brush should show up under the "Simple Circle" dropdown, and be ready for use.
Hope this helps some artists! Sorry it's a little long-winded, I did all of this as I wrote the instructions to make sure I didn't leave anything out. ^-^
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*****Here is my MediaFire host of the empty brush template.
www.mediafire.com/file/hb29xztβ¦
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says page doesnt exist?
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I've provided a link to my MediaFire upload of the .bmp image. Sorry bout that! ^^'
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Oh my thank you SO much for this! I didnt have the diy folder either :') cant wait to try it out and finally make some new brushes!
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I hope it works for you! :]
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Haha yeah i managed to make some new brushes! I found the blank psd thing on google because the link isnt working :0 i mean it leads to a removed deviation?
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Ah, shoot. Well, it was from quite a while back. Β >^<
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Just wondering but if I have version 1.2.5 shouldn't I have the Do-it-yourself file?
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I got the newest one, too, and it didn't give it to me. Maybe there's some little trick to getting the diy file, like turning your Firewall off, or disabling anti-virus during installation. But I didn't have it either.
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I bought it but there is no do it yourself!
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Awesomeness! Wish I had found this ages ago, I would have made tons of my own brushes and paper textures. Thanks so much for this tutorial!
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mmm i made my brushed and pressed sai start but itt not working?//
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Sigh. You're brushes and stuff are very helpful, but I just cannot seem to put the brushes on my system. I have them downloaded, and I just need to put them on my system, but I have no idea how to get to my SAI directory. Any help?
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is this for v.1? Cause I have v.1 but I don't have a brushform.conf
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I know I come a little late, but I spend 2h searching for the same answer and finally found how to creat brushform.CONF, so maybe it will help someone else o/
When you are into your SAI folder, search for a .CONF file, it doesn't matter wich one it is.
Copy it and past it on your desk.
Change it's name into "brushform.CONF", then open it with Notepad and change what you need to change into it.
Copy it back into your SAI folder.
Run SAI with the "stat-sai" green thing, and there it is !
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I too have a valid version of SAI with the latest update and there is no "do it yourself" folder =/
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i bought sai and i do not have a do it yourself folder???
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so you say the hard to soft changes the tip thingy how come it doesnt change for me
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s21.postimg.org/jdw9rsmcn/Screβ¦
See? It isn't supposed to be that pixelated right? Or am I just complaining about what everyone has?
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all my brushes are so pixelated, even when I make my own. The pixels are so big and blocky that it makes everything I draw look like I drew it with a Nintendo DS. Do you know how to fix this? All your brushes look like they don't even know what pixels are XD
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Canvas size effects that. Make sure your canvas is big enough.
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Thank you lots!
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So I've been able to do everything except get the brushes to open in SAI. All the conf files are entered correctly and everything, but they don't show up in SAI. I'm unable to hit start SAI like you specified because I don't have that option in my file. Is there an alternative to this?
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whenever i press "start-sai" it goes "can't run sai.exe (createprocess failed with error 740)"
how can i fix this??
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Run as administratorΒ
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Heyo, you saved my life o3o
I was searching for the answer to the same question and now I'm so relieved!Β
Thank youuu
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xD You're welcome, i was struggling Β with it to so i tried running it as admin and it worked!
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I would never in a million years have thought of that solution ;;w;;
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HAHAHA XD lol!
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My version of sai doesnt have the do it yourself folder :/ Nor do I have start sai, Im not sure what to do. I ve tried downloading start sai but an error pops up when I try to open it.
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Hey! My custom brushes never save!! it is so frustrating. coulf you help me please? I googled it and couldn't find helpΒ
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you probably have a corrupt .dll - which is what forces the program to save when you exit out. if you do a fresh install, it should fix the problem!
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I just got SAI and this will be extremely useful!
Thank you!
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How'd you do the brushy one that you use? ;A;
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