#Inking in sketchbook pro how to#

The bottom part of the template above was coloured in Clip Studio, the top part in Autodesk Sketchbook Pro. Yesterday, I thought I’d give Clip Studio Paint a go. What makes your soul shine? Take time today to indulge your soul in activities that let it do so. I feel my heart fill with some warmth and a sense of lightness.Ĭreating art, including mandalas, lets my soul shine. I look at the finished mandala and I smile, gently. Nice warm, comforting, gently glowing colours.įinally, I created some drop shadows for the text and mandala. Then, I created a layer of creamy, orange-yellow tones to highlight the line art. I think it’s that colours seem to almost glow against it. But when it was finished, I wanted to use a background and a monochrome colour scheme. In that vein, I decided to draw the mandala in black on white. I can focus on the relaxing, soothing process and on being creative. There’s also the removal of the frustration that is caused by an error or a smudge. By using Autodesk Sketchbook Pro’s symmetry tools, it streamlines the process for me. It’s a familiar process and I can create a mandala that is complex and detailed, or simple, and the calming, relaxing effect is the same.

Mandala creation makes me smile inwardly.

Today, that meant a mandala and a quote that is quite appropriate for this morning. Sunday morning is always a time to breathe, relax and create something easy and pleasurable to do.

nurturing kind of time to shake off the lingering wisps of stormy clouds. So, the rest of today is going to be a quiet. There was an emotional storm brewing and it the headache was the torrential downpour that was needed to clear the skies by forcing me to take care and shelter myself. Emotionally, however, I feel a lot better than I have the past few days. That’s mainly due to a really poor night’s sleep. Today, I’m still feeling somewhat tired and fragile. I chose a colour palette of soft pinks and greens, colours that are related to self-love, self-care, balance and harmony. So, I chose one design, popped it into Autodesk Sketchbook Pro, and used it to inspire this particular pattern. Rather than save the patterns, I saved the tiles as so many of them looked like perfect inspiration for mandalas. Repper is a browser app that is great fun to play around with and makes the creation of tiling patterns from my artwork so simple. We’ve noticed that most people use this feature for changing the color of an object they’ve drawn or adding Layer Styles.As I was coming around from yesterday’s headache, I plopped yesterday’s drawing into Repper to see what geometric patterns and tiles I could create. You are only able to make changes to that area of the image on that layer. Lock Transparency creates a mask that locks out the transparent portion of the layer. One thing that also different from Photoshop is the Lock Transparency option for layers in SketchBook. You do this by clicking on the little lock icon.

You can then draw only on that area or use the Invert option to draw on everything else. When it comes to masking, Trent shows how he uses Selection Tools (Lasso, Polyline, Magic Wand, etc.) to quickly define an area. Layer grouping and masking all happens in the Layers menu using either marking menus or hot keys. That will place those layers into a folder, and you’ll see a folder icon with the layers nested underneath. You simply choose multiple layers (hold the Command key) and hit Command G (Group Layer). The way to accomplish grouping is to link layers together and nest them in a folder. Trent uncovers the details and puts it all into context in his video: For example, if you’ve always been a Photoshop user who is used to seeing the Photoshop interface in your mind, you’ll find that things work a little differently in SketchBook. In this video, Trent starts out by answering a common user question: “How do you group and mask layers in SketchBook?” As he notes, it may not seem that these things exist in SketchBook unless you dig down a bit more. Can You Mask and Group Layers in SketchBook? Or just someone who likes character design, which is Trent’s specialty. Subscribe to his channel if you’re a SketchBook devotee but someone who still hasn’t explored all the options. Some of these tutorials - or as we like to think of them, “Trent’s Tips” - are as good as our own tutorial content, so we wanted to make sure you’re aware of this excellent resource.

#Inking in sketchbook pro how to#

Our favorite YouTuber Trent Kaniuga has created a great set of short videos showing how to approach some of the most important features in SketchBook.