Introduction: How to Draw a Lineless Illustration on SAI Painter (or Any Else Paint Computer programme)

Therein instructable I'll show you how to draw a lineless illustration. This is a really great style and is easier than it looks.

Firstly, you'll need the following:
- SAI Painter (Oregon whatsoever other paint program)
- A digital drafting tablet of some kind. I utilised the Wacom Cintiq 12WX.
- A computer
- Patience
- A comfy functional space

If you have everything, lets go started!

Step 1: Sketch Your Drawing off

Your first tread is to sketch out your drawing.
I usually use a lighting spicy for my pen color.

Step 2: Ink Your Chalk out!

I know this is going to sound comparable a stride backwards from where you want to be, but in my popular opinion, the easiest fashio for me to realise a lineless instance is to...well...dividing line it! The lines act look-alike guides for your drawing, and will also assist you know where to shade things in later!

So step two, harsh up a new layer above your sketch layer, and rename IT "ink". Instantly line your sketch with a pitch-black color. I always consumption disastrous.

Step 3: Concealment Layers

Today for step 3, you'Re going to have to start really used to hiding and un-concealment layers. Plow ahead and hide your sketchbed, and only show your ink layer.

Step 4: Create a Color Palate

A gloss palate is a very convenient thing you can do for yourself, impartial in general.

So go ahead and create a new layer called color palate.
For EVERY part of a character that has a different color, make a palate.

Then, make one "general" palate with your understructur colors.

Step 5: Color Your Characters

Now things force out protrude to get a little confusing.

You'atomic number 75 going to need to create a new layer for each antithetical emblazon section of a character. For example, a "skin" layer, "hair", "shirt", etc.

Use the colors you picked for your base colors.

Ill-trea 6: Hide Those Lines! Clean Up Your Characters!

Finally! It's time to generate disembarrass of those ugly lines.
Plow ahead and click the hide button.

Note:DO Non delete the layer, it'll help you with shading your character later.

Now, your characters leave looking at rattling blotchy and mussy. It's time to use an eraser joyride and break to each assorted layer to clean up the edges.

Once mine were all clean, they looked like this!

Step 7: Shading!

Instantly, it's time for the hardest part, shading and adding depth.

Back to your color roof of the mouth you made, plow ahead and address each of the individual rows you made for each color, and use some kind of paint or watercolor brush to blend and shade your colours onto your characters. Happening SAI painter I used the water-color tool.

To help oneself you, put your ink layer's opacity on 6%, as a guide for where to shade.

Warning: Look out for which layers you're on! You don't want to shade on the wrong layer.

Step 8: Background

There are many an different ways to pull down a background for an illustration like this.
I just took my stairs that I had for my character, and applied all of them to the scop!

If you're going to doh this, the easiest way of life to die out around IT is to hide your characters so you can focus on the background. Consider merging all the parts of your characters into one (using the "merge" button), or creating a register to put all your eccentric layers in.

Once you finish up your background, unhide your characters, delete your sketch and ink layers, and voilà!

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