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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 1 – Painting Joshua


Our first image represents the block in stage of traditional painting. Only a general description of the light and dark shapes is indicated to give an idea of what one intends to paint. The Synthetic Coarse Angular Brush is used at this point. Throughout this first demonstration, the tool most used will be the Synthetic Coarse Angular Brush. This brush is used to give the appearance of the strokes made by a bristle brush used in oil or acrylic painting. The brush should be around size 80. I am not concerned about details here, only about the general light and dark patterns that you would see if you squint your eye while looking at an object.

Another layer is created and placed below the first one. The second layer is filled in using the Flood Fill tool (bucket shaped) to have a background color to paint on top of the previous layer.

By adding layers at varying transparencies, you can continue to refine the light and dark areas. To get at the details, work from the...