Paint Tool SAI Pencil Brushes by BerolEagle

Paint Tool SAI Pencil Brushes by BerolEagle

Here are a couple of pencil brushes that I made for Paint Tool SAI in order to mimic graphite pencil, to install them follow these instructions*:

-Extract the RAR into your Paint Tool SAI folder (install 7zip if you don't have winRAR).

-Run start-sai.exe to install the textures.

-Create a new "Brush" and manually adjust the settings like you see here, you could also use the Marker, Watercolor, Airbrush ...

I recommend using these brushes on A4 page size at 150 DPI and with stroke stabilizer at level 3 but use whatever you feel comfortable with.

Feel free to adjust the pressure to your taste, some press harder than others so you may have to adjust.

Change the Simple Circle to Flat and now you have a square tip shading pencil.

(*) Update if you're having issues with the start-sai.exe, download this pack and extract it into your main SAI directory (where the SAI program is), the brushes should show up automatically next time you run SAI), they may overwrite your brush list but I've put them at the bottom so unless you have any brushes there, it shouldn't be any problem. As an extra, I've included a set of "Airbrush Pencils" which are my favorite brushes in SAI.

KoltirasRip Featured By Owner Oct 9, 2018 Hobbyist Digital Artist

This is fantastic. I can't believe how easy it was to find a good pencil for Sai.

kivimajuri Featured By Owner Sep 3, 2018 Student Digital Artist

Thanks for these settings, looks good!

Smug Spooder (additional version) by kivimajuri

Shaarq Featured By Owner Aug 8, 2018 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Thanks, this was super useful, been looking for something like this for ages.

Trollcer Featured By Owner Jul 30, 2018 Hobbyist Digital Artist

thank you very much!

Caldature Featured By Owner Jul 13, 2018 Hobbyist Digital Artist

When I use these pens, the stabiliser doesn't affect it at all. Is there any way to correct this?

DambleGamble Featured By Owner May 20, 2018

Thank you! much appreciated :) (Smile)

testing37 Featured By Owner Feb 10, 2018

how do you download it?

Shirojiki-M Featured By Owner Apr 22, 2018 Student

a bit late, but click the "Download" button on the right corner. it will save as a ZIP file. extract it and move all the contents in your paintool sai root folder. replace all the replaceable files. The brushes will load the next time you open SAI. you can find them at the last column of the brushes menu

Sleepybbu Featured By Owner Jan 30, 2018

I can't seem to download the rar, I get a 404

KristyArtz Featured By Owner Jun 22, 2018 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Refresh the page, then do it again.

FlufferBakura Featured By Owner Jan 23, 2018 Student General Artist

huh this was very useful! thanks for sharing this! I love the look of pencil a lot!

NatalieOrihara Featured By Owner Dec 26, 2017 Hobbyist General Artist

do i have to have 7zip or winRAR??

LoveCatLol Featured By Owner Oct 26, 2017

please, help, I am not English and not sure if I understand everything, I don't get it :'v there's too much folders

pazde Featured By Owner May 4, 2017 Hobbyist

I know this is an old post, but thank you for this!

Hakamorra Featured By Owner Apr 10, 2017 Hobbyist Digital Artist

I did everything and it does not work.

I-Dunno-7 Featured By Owner Mar 22, 2017 Hobbyist

I got nothing.. I tried to replicate everything said here but nothing worked, it just looked like classic Water, but 9000x worse- just white.

NiceOmegaFlowey10 Featured By Owner Feb 14, 2017 Student Digital Artist

I can't do it I try everything to get a sketch pen and more but I tried ;-;

PlantDoggo Featured By Owner Dec 19, 2016 Hobbyist Digital Artist

..I tried everything with the settings and the brushed but it just doesn't seem to be working, the brush gets too choppy when I make it smaller and even with the density at 100 it fades to much..

BerolEagle Featured By Owner Feb 5, 2017

I only use SAI 2 since it's a free upgrade, I no longer remember the settings of these brushes or how to install them in SAI v1. In SAI v2 you can scale the size and intensity of the texture so it might revolve the issue you're having.

SeCrEtGarden525 Featured By Owner Dec 3, 2016

Thank you!

aska-ray Featured By Owner Nov 30, 2016 Student Digital Artist

Just wanna say thanks again; the pencil is by far my fav SAI brush to sketch with.

DrawingJules Featured By Owner Nov 21, 2016 Hobbyist Digital Artist

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

Multi-FandomNerd Featured By Owner Oct 25, 2016 Hobbyist General Artist

I think I got an older version of Sai. I can't find/get the untitled or large grain settings, or the little section between that & advanced settings.

T33ny Featured By Owner Oct 15, 2016 Student Digital Artist

Thank you! <3

Abbyss Featured By Owner Sep 14, 2016 Digital Artist

I'm so glad I found this again. I just reinstalled SAI and my Wacom and I've been having one helluva time getting the brushes to work they way I want them. Thank you! I'm definitely favoriting this for future reference.

dremmurr-swordstrike Featured By Owner Sep 8, 2016 Hobbyist Artist

Could you include the Mechanical Pencil? I've been looking for a download for ages.

Evejones6 Featured By Owner Aug 20, 2016

i don't have the flat setting

XxZixZag50xX Featured By Owner Jun 8, 2016 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Um, I'm having trouble installing the textures for the brush. It won't show up as an option when I access SAI, though I already put Untitled and Large Grain in the blotmap and brushtex folders. Do you know what I did wrong?

BerolEagle Featured By Owner Jun 9, 2016

Run the start-sai to install any new textures.

hadangnguyet Featured By Owner Jun 2, 2016

thank !

mayodha Featured By Owner May 1, 2016 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

I simply love it

NixieDrakos Featured By Owner Apr 23, 2016

How do I get the large grain texture??

1987Spaceman Featured By Owner May 17, 2016 Professional Digital Artist

you adjust the min size and the size..

NixieDrakos Featured By Owner May 17, 2016

I got it. Thanks!

DarkChainsawr Featured By Owner Mar 11, 2016 Hobbyist

It worked but when I adjusted the settings like the first one it just looked...ugly xDD why doesn´t my brush look excactly like yours ;-;????

PonteoTheVictorious Featured By Owner Mar 3, 2016 Hobbyist Digital Artist

DrawingJules Featured By Owner Feb 15, 2016 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Thanks! Worked for me

CrazyChick1O1 Featured By Owner Jan 14, 2016 Hobbyist General Artist

I think I did this wrong.. It isn't the right pen .-.

JuanPe78 Featured By Owner Jan 2, 2016 Hobbyist General Artist

cool

existingcreature Featured By Owner Dec 17, 2015

where can i see the large grain texture? can't seem to find it.

SpicePrincess Featured By Owner Jan 20, 2016 Student General Artist

Go to download on this image... the extra brush textures will be in that rar folder and then follow the directions in the description...
Or just read the previous comments on this image.

T-I-Kman Featured By Owner Dec 16, 2015 Student General Artist

how do I mess around with the simple circle settings?

dynmk Featured By Owner Dec 15, 2015 Hobbyist Digital Artist

After putting your brushes into the file, the .bmp file I mean. Go to notepad and copy the things you have in the .rar file. If you've done so and it doesn't work still, then put the thing you copied in the notepad on the top of the list.