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SketchBook Pro Digital Painting Essentials

By : Gil Robles
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SketchBook Pro Digital Painting Essentials

By: Gil Robles

Overview of this book

Sketchbook Pro is a professional grade painting app that is easy to use and which helps you create digital art that looks like paintings created using ink and color. Using Sketchbook Pro, you can transform your digital art into true masterpieces that resemble work done using traditional mediums. SketchBook Pro Digital Painting Essentials will show you how to transform your digital art into true masterpieces. This book will guide you through the many tools and options available in Sketchbook Pro such as the symmetry tool, layer editor, and blend modes to create images that look as though they were done by hand using traditional tools and mediums. This unique book offers inspiration with hands-on techniques and gives you an insight into a professional artist's mind. Starting with an overview of the program, this book will help you customize and set your preferences to help you produce the best possible images for use on the Web or for print. You will be able to look over the author's shoulder as he demonstrates the use of the tools to create artwork that looks like it was painted or inked. This book will then show you how you can draw basic illustrations and then how to create acrylic paintings. You will also learn about file saving options; which ones are best for what you intend to do with the artwork. The book will also show you how to export the images you've created to other software and will give you tips and tricks that will help you make the most out of Sketchbook Pro. SketchBook Pro Digital Painting Essentials will give you an extensive overview complete with supporting imagery of how each piece of art was made, and by the end of this book, you will have created multiple drawings using Sketchbook Pro.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Demo 2 – the Pencil tool and Copic markers


The drawing of the ogre in the following screenshot was first sketched out using pencil. On that initial layer, the transparency was lowered, and a second layer was placed where the Pencil tool was used to ink the drawing as well as make whatever corrections were necessary.

By placing a layer beneath the inked drawing, we can begin to color the sketch using the Copic marker and the Pencil tool. The Pencil tool is also used for more precise coloring and the marker tool is used to cover larger areas. The only concern is putting down the local color; it's okay for the color to be uneven at this point because more color will be continually added over the whole area of the drawing. The initial background layer where I first sketched was deleted out from the drawing so that it would not be a distraction. Speaking of distractions, you'll notice from these images that I keep a lot of windows open as I work. That is just my preference. When I work with traditional...