SketchBook Pro Digital Painting Essentials: Explore the styles and capabilities of Sketchbook Pro with this excellent guide to the essentials of digital painting. In no time, you'll be bringing your own unique creativity to the virtual easel or drawing pad.

Name: SketchBook Pro Digital Painting Essentials: Explore the styles and capabilities of Sketchbook Pro with this excellent guide to the essentials of digital painting. In no time, you'll be bringing your own unique creativity to the virtual easel or drawing pad.
Rating: 3.9696969985961914 (33 reviews)

Gil Robles

Oct 2013 · Packt Publishing Ltd

33 reviews

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About this ebook

Explore the styles and capabilities of Sketchbook Pro with this excellent guide to the essentials of digital painting. In no time, you'll be bringing your own unique creativity to the virtual easel or drawing pad.Key Features

Discover tricks and techniques that will help you make the most out of Sketchbook Pro
Packed with practical examples that help you create expressive sketches ranging from cartoons to portraits
A step-by-step guide packed with supporting imagery

Book DescriptionSketchbook 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.What you will learn

Customize the user interface for speed and ease of use
Create a Do-It-Yourself-Brush that reflects your own style or preference
Prepare and export artwork to use in other graphics software
Create an image that resembles an oil or acrylic painting
Create images in ink and color using a digital pen
Import and color a scanned image

Who this book is for

If you have had prior experience in developing digital artwork and are looking to add to your knowledge, SketchBook Pro Digital Painting Essentials is a guide that will help you seamlessly translate what you do with traditional media to digital media.

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Ratings and reviews

33 reviews

Kristophor C.

May 6, 2014

It is ok book, i recommended reading the manual first.

8 people found this review helpful

About the author

Gil Robles is an artist/illustrator living in New York City. His clients have included Bloomberg Market Magazine and the Review and Herald Publishing. His watercolors have been sold to private collectors. Although Gil's training as an artist has been in traditional media, he has spent a great deal of time exploring digital media. Currently, he enjoys using SketchBook Pro for his paintings and illustrations and for leisure. Gil has posted many demonstration and instructional videos on his YouTube channel, grobles63.

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