


If you want to use pencil so that you can erase, (first of all, erasing on trace paper is not a fun time, but second of all) you have to find a pencil that is hard enough to not easily smear (H at the softest) but is soft enough to not tear through the trace and to create a line dark enough to read. If you don’t have drafting dots/strips/rolls available, masking tape will do just give yourself a little more paper than you’ll need to fit the map on, so you can tear the tape off if necessary. Once the graph paper is taped down, do not move it until you’ve finished all the maps! Unless you have a drafting table with a parallel bar or t-square (in which case you probably don’t need this lesson from me), moving the base layer could create differences in orientation of your lines on your tracing paper maps. You will tape this down, and then tape the trace down over as needed. Orient your graph along the axes that make the most sense to you - most likely this will be cardinal directions with x as North-South and y as East-West. Personally, I would use the base layer as the most modern version of the city you want to create, as this will probably be the largest map, and then the maps on trace will work backwards to the oldest version of the city, but do what makes sense in your mind. Unfortunately, i don't think that you can transport my paint tool sai brushes from sai to firealpaca, due to sai using different brush formats/file types than fa.Use graph paper for your base layer. I got most of my firealpaca brushes from these packs !! ( 1, 2)īut i did edit mine a bit because of personal preference!! i mainly use sai and firealpaca when drawing!! Update : for those of you asking!! these brushes are from paint tool sai. bltmp or something like that, so please be careful! you can find them in the following links, but i have them uploaded to this stash just in case! furthermore, for some reason a couple of them changed into.

Sorry if its hard to see i just threw this together rlly quickly !Įdit: the textures came with the version of sai i uploaded. The only ones i actively use r sketch + lines but i hate lineart lmao I dont use most of these anymore so i dont mind if y'all decide to use them!!
