You can even create your own original brush and add various effects, unique patterns, or images. There are standard brushes that mimic regular brush strokes, and lots of unique ones like Thorn which creates a trail of 3D thorns, or Leaf which leaves behind a trail of leaves. There are lots of different brushes to choose from, and FireAlpaca adds new ones each week. Clicking on the brush tool for example lets you change the color, size, and type of brush. On the right-hand side you have access to the main illustration tools like the brush, eraser, dot tool, move, fill, bucket, select, lasso, magic wand, select pen/eraser, text, operation, divide, eyedropper, and hand tool.Ĭlicking on a tool opens a secondary set of options where you can explore various aspects of the tool. At the very top of the screen are the program’s broader functions like file settings, and layers. It's such a struggle.FireAlpaca has a simple interface with easy-to-use controls and lots of space between elements so it doesn’t feel cramped. SAI is not equipped with this unfortunately. It can be a pain trying to draw perfect shapes, and especially in backgrounds that use shapes. Some pictures require text been shown on the drawing, example being you'd need to put some text but you can't draw it cause you think it's ugly, or its not even your language. Sometimes you want to change the angle of how you're drawing something, cause it might look weird if you tried doing it upright.

I know may artists who use the Fringe tool, it's very nice, and gives a cool look once you've used it correctly with shading.

There will be times something just doesn't look right, and you'll need to resize something or move it farther or further inside the picture.įor mouse users, this is glory in Paint Tool SAI, you can almost ink anything, and look like you did it with a tablet. I don't think many people use this, but it just gives the canvas a pretty cool look.

Firealpaca line tool