Nishant Bilkhiwal their is this thing on sketchbook where if you have a black and white drawing you can go to layers and change the layer into color and the layer that is changed into color can basically color you black and white drawing without coloring on top of all your work
Maybe you are colour blind like me, very frustrating. I tend to do monotone art nowadays, but would love to be able to do "moody" pictures like in the video.
I watch a lot of digital art videos to try and study/analyze what the artist is doing. I bought a new drawing tablet, downloaded Sketchbook Pro to learn how to use it because I don't want to pay for Photoshop, and your video not only taught me about Sketchbook but SO MUCH about digital art too! I finally feel like I can do this. Thank you!
It seems a woman came up to him and asked him to sketch something on a piece of paper. He sketched it, and gave it back to her saying: “That will cost you $10,000”. She was astounded. “You took just five minutes to do the sketch,” she said. Isn't $10,000 a lot for five minutes work? “The sketch may have taken me five minutes, but the learning took me 30 years,” Picasso retorted.
@@leonardodavinci4259 just because this guy just got this program and drew this in 4 hours doesn't mean it's his first drawing he's probably been drawign for years, so just because the commentor, couldn't draw this in 2 weeks as he said, it doesn't make him bad it'd be because this guy is proffesional level already, you shouldn't compare your work as a beginner to that of a proffesional
@@dnnxxstark7714 Definitely possible. But, not recommended. You'd have much more precision with a graphics tablet. :) I've used a small wacom intuos for 2 years so far and It's been great.
Exactly, Im a new user too and its too handy.... but the problem is I am doing it in my laptop and with a mouse.... I can't get into so much details.... drawing with a mouse is difficult 😫 but I still want to try something like this.... but I can't download any brushes 🙂😭😭😭😭
i gotta say thank you for this video, ive struggled on how to even figure out how to do landscapes in digital painting or digital drawing on sketchbook and im a visual learner watching this i know now i have confidence this is something i could do :D
I just recently purchased the subscription to Sketchbook Pro and I have watched this video 4 times already and nowhere near bored by it... I figure I will likely watch it a couple more times over the next few weeks. Really great learning video for a hobbyist like myself! Also I would like to add for anyone that may find this interesting... I am running this program on a Surface Pro 4 i5 8gb ram and it runs the program Extremely well!!!
I absolutely loved this video. Beautiful work. Listening to you walk through your thinking process when painting was both helpful and intriguing. Thanks for sharing from a native Oregonian who has been to the Japanese garden you mentioned.
I started using Autodesk Sketchbook 2 years ago. Last year, My iMac died after it got a heatstroke during a 42°C summer... Then I got a new PC. My first Windows pc. I had my Wacom Intuos Pro L before I got Autodesk Sketchbook. Here I am, now... using Krita... And I still come back to this video sometimes... AND I STILL THINK THAT I WILL NEVER ACHIEVE THIS LEVEL OF ART MASTERY
I'm really happy with how you did this video. Even though you were probably asked by autodesk to do this, it didn't feel forced and didn't feel like a commercial, either.
The recording, talk-through and painting itself are all really well done. Thank you. I only have the mobile app on my phone but am inspired to do a bit more again. I'm a writer first, but enjoyed the app. I understand that using the desktop software requires some pricey hardware input (bamboo), so that will have to wait.
This only got better and better and better, like i woulda been satisfied at the 5 minute mark in your video, but it just, kept going. I wish i could like this 1,000,000 times
I've been painting/drawing traditionally for as long as I can remember. Recently, I started thinking that maybe, it would be prudent to start painting digitally as well. This video motivated me to try it. Thank you!
Thank you for the nice words Funky. I was in the same boat about 10 years ago. I was a gallery painter that switched to digital. The cool thing is analog painting is always there if you ever want to jump back. Best of luck, and if you ever need help getting started email me, I'm always down to help.
If you ever work in oils or acrylics, a great tip I remember is to use one common paint color when mixing colors. This really brought the entire work together as one cohesive piece. When I pick my colors, I do the same thing today, imagining a little burnt sienna or ocher in my greens, blues, or whichever color I make. In Photoshop, I'll even add a color layer on top. Sometimes it's a gradient to give the impression of depth. The greens dominate in this piece, and take away from the focal. I'd like to see the greens muted a let the figure in the center stand out. The composition is great, but the colors fight it.
I don't have one online. My primary business isn't in the arts. 20 years ago it was. I did a lot of architectural renderings and for a time I went to school for automotive design. Now I'm in engineering. I could send some work I've done via email or something.
Fantastic piece of work, I've recently only started to get into digital art and so far I'm loving it. I have to admit though I'm not even close to figuring out sketchbook Pro yet, great fun though.
Awesome demo! Coming from Photoshop, I had always been skeptical of Sketchbook and thought it was too simplistic. But after seeing this I realize it's actually pretty cool!
hey sir. i have this pictures as my backfround on the desktop, every time i doubt my skills and my software, ill look at that amazing art. that way i know its only my skills i need to work on. thank you a 1000 times for sharring your work.
Wow, wow, I am out of words ! That was amazing. I just got the Autodesk Sketchbook Pro and I am so exited. I don't know how to paint but your demo makes me want to learn. That was beautiful !!!
This is really good! You did an amazing job and you can really see the texture of the painting and the lighting is really good too! I use sketchbook on my phone (but not pro) but on my computer it has problems and doesn't download properly,, :(This looks really cool and inspiring!
Окей я посмотрела все от начала и до конца и конечно же поняла что мне придётся ещё работать и работать чтобы добиться таких же успехов. Также я сделала вывод - если что-то не получается, просто отзеркаль и прорисуй 😂👌. А в целом, никогда не понимала, как нужно изменять эффекты и всякое такое, поэтому каждый раз рисую только теми инструментами, которые даны на панели. Все же спасибо за Ваш туториал! Теперь у меня есть над чем поработать в своей технике, использовать новые кисти и стараться применять больше эффектов для идеального рисунка. ✨
Sketchbook is way better than photoshop to sketch on; the feel is closer to sketching with a pencil on paper.BTW was this done using a traditional pen tab or the one with a screen (like wacom cintiq)?
Sketchbook has been my program of choice for quite a while, mostly as it was the only thing my budget could allow for when I started. Also it has a wonderful interface. So anyone searching through the comments, I do reccomend it, especially now that its free.
Is SketchBook Pro worth the money? Does SketchBook Pro fix lines for you? I have the Demo and, of course it's not going to be the best but I wanted to try it out. I shake a lot when I'm outlining and just in general, so my lines are always wonky, even though I have a styles (Hope I spelled that out right).
I really enjoy it, is easy to use, if you worried about shaky straight lines there is a tool that will create a line from point to point, shift button alows you to create virticle and horizontal line. There is a perspective grid which also lets you create straight lines which go to your vanishing point
It has basicly everything photoshop has, but cheaper :). but then again i only used photoshop for a couple of month then i lost my cd key so i moved to sketchbook
Have a look in your preferences. The Lagoon is in there. Wait you may have downloaded the one from the damn app store for win10. You need to go to SketchBook's website and download the exe's like you would for win7. That is the full program. (I found this out myself, on my own Win10 I have 2 versions. The "tablet" version optermised for Win10 and the full version.... Hope this helps.
I found the same thing when Microsoft offered it up as an app for Windows 10. To correct that I went to Autodesk's site and downloaded the 64bit version.
I've started using this app a month ago. Works for me. I'm using a Lenovo 10.5" tablet. I'm finger drawing at the moment. I'd like to use a stylus to draw. It looks like your using a laptop with mouse. I'd do that too. I'm enjoying it do far, till I want to get into better details
As I want to work in the field of visual development for world environment, I absolutely enjoyed this video! Everything about it was great, thanks so much and beautiful work!! :')
I have this program but for some reason the tool bars disappear when i try to record - has this ever happened to anyone? Only the copic tool shows up on video... :(
So uh, does it have a stabilizer in this program? To help the lines to get smooth, does it have a blur tool? Or something that blend that colors together?
Could you add a link or a comment as to what brushes you used? I tried pausing the video to see... but it goes by rather quickly. I believe it was watercolor... but I am not sure... thank you!
_There are some brush packs for easier use, but for me, the Smudge and Blur are a combo for shading and color blending._ _(And there are a lot to experiement on. But I wanted to try the Touch because I use Intuos Draw, since this needs a touch screen.)_
I have this sketch book app on my iphone but i don't have a brush they told me to buy it so i was wondering if i download on my pc would they have all the brushes ?? P.s your tutorial was awesome i luv it 😍😍
The brushes for the program I believe are only available on the desktop Application. I can research further for you to check. The set I downloaded was free from the Autodesk website! www.sketchbook.com/blog/category/free-brush-sets/
I was wondering can you set the the perspective grid up first and use that to loosely Skecth without Have to worry about perspective or is that not on the market yet?
Jason Scheier I bought a yearly sub i used it a little on the iPad pro but its missing some of the features from the desktop but i will start a new painting on the desktop soon. I like the tools and layout.
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my biggest problem is colors, i can draw anything in black and white, but when it comes to colors im screwed.
same.
Nishant Bilkhiwal their is this thing on sketchbook where if you have a black and white drawing you can go to layers and change the layer into color and the layer that is changed into color can basically color you black and white drawing without coloring on top of all your work
i'm the opposite
Maybe you are colour blind like me, very frustrating. I tend to do monotone art nowadays, but would love to be able to do "moody" pictures like in the video.
same
I watch a lot of digital art videos to try and study/analyze what the artist is doing. I bought a new drawing tablet, downloaded Sketchbook Pro to learn how to use it because I don't want to pay for Photoshop, and your video not only taught me about Sketchbook but SO MUCH about digital art too! I finally feel like I can do this. Thank you!
One day, I can only hope to be as good as this
you will! keep practicing!!
Jason Scheier and we all wouldn't expect to get reply from you :D
That was three years ago wow :') Hey, so did you become ? ❤
4 hour.... I probably would do it for a two weeks and it still won't be as good as yours...
It seems a woman came up to him and asked him to sketch something on a piece of paper.
He sketched it, and gave it back to her saying: “That will cost you $10,000”.
She was astounded. “You took just five minutes to do the sketch,” she said. Isn't $10,000 a lot for five minutes work?
“The sketch may have taken me five minutes, but the learning took me 30 years,” Picasso retorted.
@@Julzchomovitch00 how is this related to the original comment?
@@leonardodavinci4259 just because this guy just got this program and drew this in 4 hours doesn't mean it's his first drawing he's probably been drawign for years, so just because the commentor, couldn't draw this in 2 weeks as he said, it doesn't make him bad it'd be because this guy is proffesional level already, you shouldn't compare your work as a beginner to that of a proffesional
dont compare yourself to professionals.. compare yourself to your past self. are you growing? good. that's what matters
I can't imagine how this is even possible. Amazing.
Just downloaded Sketchbook, which is free for Students.
I think I've found my new favourite program.
So much more fluid than PS or CS. :)
hello! im a beginner in pc drawing, is it really possible to use mouse to create artworks? thank you!
@@dnnxxstark7714 Definitely possible. But, not recommended. You'd have much more precision with a graphics tablet. :)
I've used a small wacom intuos for 2 years so far and It's been great.
Exactly, Im a new user too and its too handy.... but the problem is I am doing it in my laptop and with a mouse.... I can't get into so much details.... drawing with a mouse is difficult 😫 but I still want to try something like this.... but I can't download any brushes 🙂😭😭😭😭
@@dnnxxstark7714 I don't know if this much detailing is possible but I also draw with mouse... mainly anime charecters ....
i gotta say thank you for this video, ive struggled on how to even figure out how to do landscapes in digital painting or digital drawing on sketchbook and im a visual learner watching this i know now i have confidence this is something i could do :D
This is a super peaceful and relaxing looking painting.
I just recently purchased the subscription to Sketchbook Pro and I have watched this video 4 times already and nowhere near bored by it... I figure I will likely watch it a couple more times over the next few weeks. Really great learning video for a hobbyist like myself! Also I would like to add for anyone that may find this interesting... I am running this program on a Surface Pro 4 i5 8gb ram and it runs the program Extremely well!!!
these type of drawings realy get into my heart and touch my heart
I absolutely loved this video. Beautiful work. Listening to you walk through your thinking process when painting was both helpful and intriguing. Thanks for sharing from a native Oregonian who has been to the Japanese garden you mentioned.
Thank you so much!!!
I started using Autodesk Sketchbook 2 years ago.
Last year, My iMac died after it got a heatstroke during a 42°C summer...
Then I got a new PC. My first Windows pc. I had my Wacom Intuos Pro L before I got Autodesk Sketchbook.
Here I am, now... using Krita... And I still come back to this video sometimes...
AND I STILL THINK THAT I WILL NEVER ACHIEVE THIS LEVEL OF ART MASTERY
I'm really happy with how you did this video. Even though you were probably asked by autodesk to do this, it didn't feel forced and didn't feel like a commercial, either.
Wonderful walk through! This is very inspiring, makes me want to dive deeper into landscape work. Thanks for your time in putting this all together!
Hello Megan, I'm really happy that you enjoyed it! Thank you for the nice comment!! Take care!
Dude. You took me to another dimension.
It was SO incredible to watch you draw this! Thank you!
The recording, talk-through and painting itself are all really well done. Thank you. I only have the mobile app on my phone but am inspired to do a bit more again.
I'm a writer first, but enjoyed the app. I understand that using the desktop software requires some pricey hardware input (bamboo), so that will have to wait.
Joe-It's amazing on the Mac or PC. The pressure sensitivity feel super natural like traditional painting and drawing.
There are cheaper things than Bamboo. Check out Huion, XP-Pen, and Gaomon. More brands exist. Hope this helped!
this is so cool, knowing that you were figuring things out while working on it is incredible!
awesome demo, I'm love painting on Photoshop, but now that I've seen how Autodesk pro works I'm sold. 👍
You can tell that this guy was enjoying himself. I like scenery drawings like this. They take you awaaaaaaaaay
This only got better and better and better, like i woulda been satisfied at the 5 minute mark in your video, but it just, kept going. I wish i could like this 1,000,000 times
Heyi guy, do the animators use this sketch book for cartoon animations??
That was well worth my 30 minutes! Thanks for the insight Jason and thanks for making this happen Autodesk!
Thank you so much for the nice comment!!!
One of the Best Artist Videos Ever! Absolutely Outstanding!
thank you so much Robert!! :D
I've been painting/drawing traditionally for as long as I can remember. Recently, I started thinking that maybe, it would be prudent to start painting digitally as well.
This video motivated me to try it. Thank you!
Thank you for the nice words Funky. I was in the same boat about 10 years ago. I was a gallery painter that switched to digital. The cool thing is analog painting is always there if you ever want to jump back. Best of luck, and if you ever need help getting started email me, I'm always down to help.
Thanks again! I just subscribed to your channel, if there's something to learn I'm willing to.
Keep inspiring people, good day, +Jason Scheier!
Thanks so much man! I love your attitude, it's the only way to grow man! :)
If you ever work in oils or acrylics, a great tip I remember is to use one common paint color when mixing colors. This really brought the entire work together as one cohesive piece. When I pick my colors, I do the same thing today, imagining a little burnt sienna or ocher in my greens, blues, or whichever color I make. In Photoshop, I'll even add a color layer on top. Sometimes it's a gradient to give the impression of depth. The greens dominate in this piece, and take away from the focal. I'd like to see the greens muted a let the figure in the center stand out. The composition is great, but the colors fight it.
I've worked in both acrylics and oils. I'd love to see your work? do you have a link to your portfolio?
I don't have one online. My primary business isn't in the arts. 20 years ago it was. I did a lot of architectural renderings and for a time I went to school for automotive design. Now I'm in engineering.
I could send some work I've done via email or something.
I use this same program and i just wanted to say this is fantastic!
Watching u resize and paint in the background was so satisfying
Fantastic piece of work, I've recently only started to get into digital art and so far I'm loving it. I have to admit though I'm not even close to figuring out sketchbook Pro yet, great fun though.
Awesome demo! Coming from Photoshop, I had always been skeptical of Sketchbook and thought it was too simplistic. But after seeing this I realize it's actually pretty cool!
Thank you Mega!!!!
Every single video on this channel is is inspiring
Pretty awesome demo. Been searching for alternatives to Photoshop's expensive subscription model. I think this is a great step in that direction.
OMG 😲
Dude you have some brilliant skills.
You are an excellent graphics designer .....
I’m really impressed
Still thinking 🤔
How is it possible ???
Wait he's a graphics designer?
please do more paintings with this program, it was really cool to watch and to listen to how you design ur work
Great demo!!! Amazing painting, I hope someday I can create something half as good as this. Really amazing job.
Thank you so very much
hey sir. i have this pictures as my backfround on the desktop, every time i doubt my skills and my software, ill look at that amazing art. that way i know its only my skills i need to work on. thank you a 1000 times for sharring your work.
You also need to work on your capitalization.
Wow! You are amazing!!! Such a fun and beautiful piece!!!
Wow, wow, I am out of words ! That was amazing. I just got the Autodesk Sketchbook Pro and I am so exited. I don't know how to paint but your demo makes me want to learn. That was beautiful !!!
when this guy creating on the fly in about 4 hours, here I am probably spending an eternity. but this is so cool!
I wish that I made this :O, I need to learn digital painting!
This is amazing!! Thank you for a Great inspiration Jason.
Awesome video! I've been searching for a tutorial like this for months. This was really helpful, thank you for making this :)
By the way, your piece is absolutely gorgeous!
Hi Rachel, Thank you for being so kind! I am very happy people enjoyed the tutorial, including you! Take care.
Great demo! Thanks for doing this, Jason. Sketchbook is so cool :)
Thank you so much Gar!! I'm really excited you enjoyed it! ;)
Your work is beautiful
Thanks for this demo i had been using autodesk sketchbook for a while but i just dint know the right brushes to use thanks again
This is really good! You did an amazing job and you can really see the texture of the painting and the lighting is really good too! I use sketchbook on my phone (but not pro) but on my computer it has problems and doesn't download properly,, :(This looks really cool and inspiring!
Wow....This is really amazing...Just looking at this, i was wondering what that little character's story was :) Love it!
Fantastic demo... great work.
This is awsome the color combination is so good. I try many times to brings such kind of color sceme but i screwed.
Bravo Bravo !!! More, More, More !!! MORE MORE MORE !
Wait a minute, you can download Sketchbook on your computer aswell? I thought it was only an app for mobile devices.
yes!!!
Jason Scheier awesome!
Lol I find this kind of funny, I found the app before I knew it was a desktop program
Dunno if you already know or not by now, but Sketchbook is now free.
Autodesk Sketchbook Pro is free on Windows 10 ....
Beautiful!
This is insanely cool and beautiful 😱 how do you just know how to draw a landscape like that from memory? I would have to like trace a picture
Окей я посмотрела все от начала и до конца и конечно же поняла что мне придётся ещё работать и работать чтобы добиться таких же успехов. Также я сделала вывод - если что-то не получается, просто отзеркаль и прорисуй 😂👌. А в целом, никогда не понимала, как нужно изменять эффекты и всякое такое, поэтому каждый раз рисую только теми инструментами, которые даны на панели.
Все же спасибо за Ваш туториал! Теперь у меня есть над чем поработать в своей технике, использовать новые кисти и стараться применять больше эффектов для идеального рисунка. ✨
He is so passionate about what he does
beautiful! very impressive!
Sketchbook is way better than photoshop to sketch on; the feel is closer to sketching with a pencil on paper.BTW was this done using a traditional pen tab or the one with a screen (like wacom cintiq)?
Hello Yadunandan, I'm going to have them both running from here on out! I love Sketchbook! I was using a Wacom 22HD mounted on a Ergotron Arm.
Amazing video, where can I find thouse leaves/tree brushes?
Sketchbook has been my program of choice for quite a while, mostly as it was the only thing my budget could allow for when I started. Also it has a wonderful interface. So anyone searching through the comments, I do reccomend it, especially now that its free.
Hi I would like to know how to blend colors. What tools would you use?
Did I miss where you tell us where you got the other brushes from?
I want to live inside this dude's dreams, this is amazing
I MUST DOWNLOAD THAT PAINTING, PLEASE.
Instagram? Facebook? Tumblr? WHERE can I get your unbelievably beautiful work?
Duuude amazing! You have a great talent, congratulations!! Can you provide the link to download that art? I wanna use as my windows background!
Is SketchBook Pro worth the money? Does SketchBook Pro fix lines for you? I have the Demo and, of course it's not going to be the best but I wanted to try it out. I shake a lot when I'm outlining and just in general, so my lines are always wonky, even though I have a styles (Hope I spelled that out right).
I really enjoy it, is easy to use, if you worried about shaky straight lines there is a tool that will create a line from point to point, shift button alows you to create virticle and horizontal line.
There is a perspective grid which also lets you create straight lines which go to your vanishing point
It has basicly everything photoshop has, but cheaper :). but then again i only used photoshop for a couple of month then i lost my cd key so i moved to sketchbook
Trav Morr Thank you!
it is free now so yes
you can use Stroke stabilizer for that .. SB pro is now free on win 10
Even though I bought the Pro version I have neither the Lagoon nor many of the options you have, am I missing something? Windows 10.
Have a look in your preferences. The Lagoon is in there.
Wait you may have downloaded the one from the damn app store for win10. You need to go to SketchBook's website and download the exe's like you would for win7. That is the full program. (I found this out myself, on my own Win10 I have 2 versions. The "tablet" version optermised for Win10 and the full version....
Hope this helps.
It has to do with the 32 vs 64 bit download
I found the same thing when Microsoft offered it up as an app for Windows 10. To correct that I went to Autodesk's site and downloaded the 64bit version.
I've started using this app a month ago. Works for me. I'm using a Lenovo 10.5" tablet. I'm finger drawing at the moment. I'd like to use a stylus to draw. It looks like your using a laptop with mouse. I'd do that too. I'm enjoying it do far, till I want to get into better details
I loved your work it's sooooo amazing..
As I want to work in the field of visual development for world environment, I absolutely enjoyed this video! Everything about it was great, thanks so much and beautiful work!! :')
Wow, thank you so much Rain! I really appreciate the nice words!! I am stoked you enjoyed this video!
I have this program but for some reason the tool bars disappear when i try to record - has this ever happened to anyone? Only the copic tool shows up on video... :(
from where i can download the brushes ? please tell, i'am looking for them for many days.
This is amazing
did you used a brush pack? or did you make those brushes? also what brush pack is that?
I wanna know how to download brushes? I could not find any.... or it is not available in the free version?
So uh, does it have a stabilizer in this program? To help the lines to get smooth, does it have a blur tool? Or something that blend that colors together?
any way for me to download the completed piece? id like it as my desktop background, its quite the beauty
WAIT I'VE LEARNED SO MUCH IN THIS VID AHAHAH THANKS! AWESOME VID :D
Could you add a link or a comment as to what brushes you used? I tried pausing the video to see... but it goes by rather quickly. I believe it was watercolor... but I am not sure... thank you!
what kind of brushes did you use and where did you download them?
_There are some brush packs for easier use, but for me, the Smudge and Blur are a combo for shading and color blending._
_(And there are a lot to experiement on. But I wanted to try the Touch because I use Intuos Draw, since this needs a touch screen.)_
I have this sketch book app on my iphone but i don't have a brush they told me to buy it so i was wondering if i download on my pc would they have all the brushes ??
P.s your tutorial was awesome i luv it 😍😍
The brushes for the program I believe are only available on the desktop Application. I can research further for you to check. The set I downloaded was free from the Autodesk website! www.sketchbook.com/blog/category/free-brush-sets/
@@JasonScheier Which brush set?
Did you use your mouse or a drawing touchpad ? Anyway awesome work of art !!! ;)
This is painted on a 22"HD Wacom Cinitq
Where did u get the rock formation from what brush?
what brushes did you use and how can I download them? Pls help.
Man this is so cool
I was wondering can you set the the perspective grid up first and use that to loosely Skecth without Have to worry about perspective or is that not on the market yet?
Dang that's gorgeous. Nice work!
This was great im going to give it a go on my iPad Pro!
Thank you!!! DOOOOOO IT!
Jason Scheier I bought a yearly sub i used it a little on the iPad pro but its missing some of the features from the desktop but i will start a new painting on the desktop soon. I like the tools and layout.
For anyone not aware, Autodesk has now made this awesome programme completely free!
It's beautiful
Hi can you give us a link where you got the costume brushes?
THANKYOUU FOR SHARING!! it really helpful💕
Oh god I could never..........It's so beautiful though!!
what brushes is he are you using cuz i need some help choosing
this is like a wallpaper
wow! ur so good!!!! how did you get the brush u used at the very beginning of the video (the first brush u used)?
Where can I download this brush set?
Was the time lapse included in the app or is that something separate I'd need to download?
What time lapse application do you use?
What are the best brushes/tools?