Stuff like this is all drawn with the pen tool using the skin-texture brush from the link above. It’s hard to see here bc the resolution is small, but it gives it a nice crayon/gritty texture that I really like For stuff like this, and almost all of my black and white work, I actually use a custom brush I made for SAI.

You can find a flat brush elemap in the link above, but the one I made, in comparison, looks like this You can find similar brushes to it in SAI, but for right now I’m gonna hang on to it as my own I used to do all my black and white stuff with the flat brush prior, so it’s not a bad option at all! As for like, actual actual painting – I suppose i have to pick my examples here carefully haha I used a mix of the aforementioned skin brush on the pen tool to blot colors/shadows and the marker tool to blend.

I used my custom brush as the texture for it, but I can give you the marker blending settings and you can mess around with which brush type you want to use with it! : I love all your art so much especially all the overwatch stuff and your unique OCs! They just all make me smile and brighten my day so much. I have my notifications on all of your posts (I hope that's not creepy.) But your work makes me so happy! I had to recently restart my account and you were the 1st person I followed.

Paint tool sai 2 pencil brush