does anyone know how to actually paint digitally

[piichinu]

because i dont and i was wondering if people had sai tuts that dont require me to download brushes or anything

also maybe tips on coloring lineart cuz im awful at tha and i need to learn how to color

 

[Ephemeral Reality]

You have to download brushes to paint digitally. The brushes you use are crucial to the effect. You can make your own custom brush, but that's usually something you do once you've got the hang of painting using other brushes.

As for coloring tips, I suck at it too, so I probably can't help much. But something that I've found very helpful is to play around with the colors using hue and saturation. Just a few tweaks here and there can dramatically change the feeling of an image. Anyway, good luck with your art!

 

[piichinu]

i dont think you have to...i think you can actually do it just by editing brush settings. which i dont know how to set them, so i was mostly asking for people's good painting brush settings.

yeah i do mess with the hue/saturation filters but i was actually wondering for things like, what color do you make a line if its the line of a white piece of clothing that's touching tan skin?
like this picture here:
http://prntscr.com/c5gf2n

when i shaded the skin it was a lot darker (i deleted my shading), but the outfit was just white with blue in some parts (thats how the design is) and i tried orange/yellow for the outfit's lines that touched the skin, tried grey, and i tried blue, and tried different combinations, but still couldnt get it to look right. idk if that makes sense. i just wanna know what to do in situations like that.

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i guess what im saying is when i tried coloring the lines the combination of colors looked really dull no matter what i tried

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i dont know if thats omsething that just cant be helped because of the characters color scheme? the colors wouldnt really go well together at all normally imo

(its my character from a game for something & it looks good in the game but as a flat drawing i think its kinda weird)

 

[apharel]

I just use the default SAI brush and the default watercolor brush.

For lines for white clothing I use a greyish purple or greyish blue. Typically just a darker, less saturated version of whatever base color it overlaps.

 

[Ephemeral Reality]

Oh, I just realized you use Sai. I use photoshop, so I guess the brushes will be different. As for the white clothing lines, I usually just use grey.