Step 4: Hold down Ctrl and click and drag the corners of the grid to snap it to the sides of your canvas. Your perspective grid will now appear on your canvas. Step 3: Select New 2 VP Perspective Grid. Step 2: Click on the perspective ruler icon in the layer panel. Step 1: Open your document in PaintTool SAI. If you would like to learn how to make straight lines check out my post “How to Draw Straight Lines in PaintTool SAI”.įollow the steps below to create comic panels using the Two-Point Perspective Grid. Note: This is not a tutorial on how to make straight lines in PaintTool SAI. However, we can simulate guides by using the Two-Point Perspective Grid. Since PaintTool SAI does not have the ability to set guides or bleed lines like in Photoshop or Illustrator it is not the easiest to make comic panels with consistent border widths. Method 1:Make Comic Panels Using the Two-Point Perspective Grid

Use straight line drawing mode to draw freehand straight lines.Select Line in the Snap dropdown menu so your lines snap to the guides of your perspective grid.

Right-click your perspective grid layer in the layer menu and open Property to add divisions to your perspective grid.

You can use the 2 VP Perspective Grid to create guides for your comic grids.

PaintTool SAI does not have a native guide feature like Photoshop.

Method 3: Make Comic Panels Using Straight Line Mode.

Method 2: Create Comic Panels in PaintTool SAI using Layer > Outline.

Method 1:Make Comic Panels Using the Two-Point Perspective Grid.

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