SketchBook Pro 7 Essential Training

Course details

Digital drawing is made easier with SketchBook Pro, whether you're an illustrator a CAD designer involved in manufacturing. In this course, Veejay Gahir shares reference images and techniques he's developed over years as a professional product and automotive designer. He'll walk you through SketchBook's basics—the interface, preferences, brushes, Lagoon tools, and export options—so you can get started sketching quickly. He'll also introduce alternative workflows to achieve the same results, which may better suit your style of working. Your final sketches can then be used downstream in other CAD programs or simply saved and shared. And don't miss the four drawing tutorials to see Veejay sketching in action!

Learning objectives
Understanding the Lagoon
Working with color
Modifying brush properties
Cropping, translating, transforming, and distorting
Working with symmetry and perspective
Creating curves and straight lines
Using layers
Exporting images

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome
02 - Using the exercise files

1. Theory of Sketching

03 - Advantages of digital sketching
04 - Comparing mouse and tablet sketching

2. Learning the Interface and Tools

05 - Interface overview
06 - Exploring the File and Edit menus
07 - Exploring the Image menu
08 - Exploring the Window and Help menus

3. Working with Colors in SketchBook Pro

09 - Working with the Color and Brush pucks
10 - Understanding the Color Editor
11 - Introducing Copic markers
12 - Utilizing the Copic library

4. Understanding Brushes and Their Properties

13 - Brush palette fundamentals
14 - Modifying brush properties
15 - Workflow with synthetic brushes

5. Working with Layers

16 - Understanding layers
17 - New layer functions

6. Learning the Interface - The Toolbar

18 - Introducing Transform and Select
19 - Manipulating with Transform, Distort, and Flood Fill
20 - Working with Crop and adding text
21 - The Ruler, Ellipse, and French Curves tools
22 - Creating perspective
23 - Working with symmetry
24 - Utilizing the Steady Stroke and shape tools
25 - Sketching the vehicle wheel

7. Learning the Interface - The Lagoon

26 - Understanding the Lagoon

8. Customizing SketchBook

27 - Creating do-it-yourself brushes
28 - Working with brush sets
29 - Shading an F1 wheel
30 - Creating custom icons

9. A Typical Workflow

31 - Shading a vehicle body
32 - Shading using grayscale

10. Blend Modes

33 - Introducing blend modes
34 - Darken options
35 - Lighten options
36 - Contrast blend modes
37 - Color blend modes
38 - Glow and Soft Glow
39 - Correcting a dark image

11. Exporting Images

40 - Exporting a finished rendering

Conclusion

41 - Next steps