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[Zillia]

I know caps lock turns the usual circle brush cursor into a cross hair, but other then that zooming in helps a lot.

But yeah! Keep pen pressure on :). It's a great thing once you get used to it. You can make such cool lines, and it lets you not have to change the brush size if you need a thinner/thicker line all of a sudden!

Also use the brush tool. I've never seen any occasion where the pencil tool was useful. The pen tool is interesting. It can be handy sometimes, but I think it's more of people who don't have a tablet and want a cool looking line that looks as if it was drawn with a pen.

[Don9aldo]

Try getting a pencil brush for photoshop as well.
I find it quite handy to have a realistic pencil brush for sketches, plus it's easier on the eyes than the ordinary pencil tool - almost like using an actual pencil!

http://andantonius.deviantart.com/ar...rush-105284502

[Zillia]

Oh wow, that's cool. I might get that when I get back home :)

[captaincrunch]

I don't think there's a shortcut. You have to enable the crosshair cursor in preferences.

[Don9aldo]

Originally Posted by captaincrunch

I don't think there's a shortcut. You have to enable the crosshair cursor in preferences.

Caps lock is the hot key for it.
I don't use it at all though, mostly because I prefer to know exactly what area my brush is going to effect (As well as what brush I'm using in the first place).

[Zillia]

Anyone know how to DISABLE the crosshair thing? Would be great to get rid of that useless thing :)

[ZoundX]

thanks for the shortcut, also found out if you go Edit - preferences - cursor you can remove the cross hair

[ZoundX]

tried drawing tsugumi that's about 3 hours work maybe more -_-
still a long way to go before its finished

[Zillia]

Oh that looks pretty good!

What's your workflow like? Layers and such? Do you keep things on different layers at all?

[DeeJayX]

Soooo...I gave that pencil brush tool a try in PS. Pretty sweet.

But then I remembered why I hate PS...its so clunky and bogged down, some of my lines would lag. I loaded up SAI - hit the Ink Pen brush, dropped the density of the brush down to 37% like the brush in PS was set to. And voila. Basically the same effect in SAI...100x smoother (even on a Q6600 oc'd to 3Ghz and 8 Gb of RAM...PS still lags? BAH).

Laid down the concept for my next image.

But now I've got the desire to do sort of a standing straight forward pose/base and hammer out various clothing styles so I can find something a bit normal for Cassie n DJ to wear. I'm getting tired of them not having something to call every day clothing. xD