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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)

Brush choices


Because SketchBook Pro has so many brushes, there are a number of ways to create a pen, brush, or ink drawing. There's a Chisel Tip Pen, Felt Tip Pen, Ballpoint Pen, Copic Multi-liner, and a Copic Drawing Pen. All of these will give you a line similar to what you would get using those types of markers. If you are looking for something that resembles a nib pen or comic-style inking brush, then you would have to do a little tweaking of your brush properties or create a Do-It-Yourself Brush.

The Pencil tool

The Pencil tool works well as a dark ink line, although the line will be a bit soft compared to an inked line. As long as your preferences for the canvas are set at no less than 4000 for either the Height: or Width: fields and the Resolution: field at least at 400, the pencil line will be a very dense black. To change your preferences, on the menu bar, go to Edit | Preferences | Canvas. The Pencil tool will give you a quality that the marker tools lack—a more lively line that...