SketchBook Pro 7 Essential Training

Walk through SketchBook's basics—the interface, preferences, brushes, Lagoon tools, and export options—and get started drawing quickly.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Using the exercise files

1. Theory of Sketching

• Advantages of digital sketching
• Comparing mouse and tablet sketching

2. Learning the Interface and Tools

• Interface overview
• Exploring the File and Edit menus
• Exploring the Image menu
• Exploring the Window and Help menus

3. Working with Colors in SketchBook Pro

• Working with the Color and Brush pucks
• Understanding the Color Editor
• Introducing Copic markers
• Utilizing the Copic library

4. Understanding Brushes and Their Properties

• Brush palette fundamentals
• Modifying brush properties
• Workflow with synthetic brushes

5. Working with Layers

• Understanding layers
• New layer functions

6. Learning the Interface: The Toolbar

• 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

7. Learning the Interface: The Lagoon

• Understanding the Lagoon

8. Customizing SketchBook

• Creating do-it-yourself brushes
• Working with brush sets
• Shading an F1 wheel
• Creating custom icons

9. A Typical Workflow

• Shading a vehicle body
• Shading using grayscale

10. Blend Modes

• Introducing blend modes
• Darken options
• Lighten options
• Contrast blend modes
• Color blend modes
• Glow and Soft Glow
• Correcting a dark image

11. Exporting Images

• Exporting a finished rendering

Conclusion

• Next steps