Overview
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Walk through SketchBook's basics—the interface, preferences, brushes, Lagoon tools, and export options—and get started drawing quickly.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Using the exercise files
- Advantages of digital sketching
- Comparing mouse and tablet sketching
- Interface overview
- Exploring the File and Edit menus
- Exploring the Image menu
- Exploring the Window and Help menus
- Working with the Color and Brush pucks
- Understanding the Color Editor
- Introducing Copic markers
- Utilizing the Copic library
- Brush palette fundamentals
- Modifying brush properties
- Workflow with synthetic brushes
- Understanding layers
- New layer functions
- Introducing Transform and Select
- Manipulating with Transform, Distort, and Flood Fill
- Working with Crop and adding text
- The Ruler, Ellipse, and French Curves tools
- Creating perspective
- Working with symmetry
- Utilizing the Steady Stroke and shape tools
- Sketching the vehicle wheel
- Understanding the Lagoon
- Creating do-it-yourself brushes
- Working with brush sets
- Shading an F1 wheel
- Creating custom icons
- Shading a vehicle body
- Shading using grayscale
- Introducing blend modes
- Darken options
- Lighten options
- Contrast blend modes
- Color blend modes
- Glow and Soft Glow
- Correcting a dark image
- Exporting a finished rendering
- Next steps
