Sketchbook Essential Training - United Kingdom

Sketchbook Essential Training Course Outline

Module 1: Get Started with Sketchbook

• Introduction to Sketchbook
• Advantages of Digital Sketching

Module 2: Learning the Interface and Tools

• Interface Overview
• Exploring the File and Edit Menus
• Exploring the Image Menu
• Exploring the Window and Help Menus

Module 3: Working with Colours in Sketchbook Pro

• Working with the Colour and Brush Pucks
• Understanding the Colour Editor
• Introducing Copic Markers
• Utilizing the Copic Library

Module 4: Understanding Brushes and their Properties

• Brush Palette Fundamentals
• Modifying Brush Properties
• Workflow with Synthetic Brushes

Module 5: Working with Layers

• Understanding Layers
• New Layer Functions

Module 6: Learning the Interface: The Toolbar and The Lagoon

• 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
• Understanding the Lagoon

Module 7: Customising Sketchbook

• Creating do-it-yourself Brushes
• Working with Brush Sets
• Shading an F1 Wheel
• Creating Custom Icons

Module 8: A Typical Workflow

• Shading a Vehicle Body
• Shading using Grayscale

Module 9: Blend Modes and Exporting Images

• Introducing Blend Modes
• Darken Options
• Lighten Options
• Contrast Blend Modes
• Colour Blend Modes
• Glow and Soft Glow
• Correcting a Dark Image
• Exporting a Finished Rendering