SketchBook Pro 2011 - Getting Started: The Basics

A brief overview of some of the key tools and workflows in the SketchBook Pro.
This video takes a look at: Brushes, Layers, Symmetry, and User Interface elements like Marking Menus.

http://www.autodesk.com/sketchbookpro

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Howto & Style

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• illustration

[a62010]

I can't find the color wheel as shown in video? or the picker? can someone help?>

[SketchBookPro]

@a62010 There's 2 small buttons inside the lagoon (bottom left) hit them to pull up the brush and color editor. If you have the editor open, but can't see the color wheel, there is a small arrow at the top of the editor. That should expose the wheel.

[AnimalXing]

I've been looking for the friggin' color dropper, you know, the tool you use to select an older color. Is there one?

[SketchBookPro]

@AnimalXing Alt is the hotkey for bringing up the eyedropper. It is also in the color editor... The magnifying glass beside the color swatch. Hope that helps.

[MagykalShadow]

Is there a way to scan images straight into the program?

[bngstuart92]

Ok, so I really cant find out how to see the cursor, everytime I go to draw i dont know where my cursor is. In this example you have a cross... for me i have nothing, it has seemed to disappear.

[7fulgore7]

is there a way to put letters in it?

[FreeMcWilly]

Where did those imported brushes come from , mine didn't come with those

[agninja123181]

im the guy whose tutorial didnt work :D thankyou for making this one instead! especially the mirror part

[BaresarkSlayne]

I'm excited to check this out since Corel Painter is so damn expensive. I'll have it tomorrow. I picked up a budget pen tablet, but I think I need to borrow my buddies Wacom Bamboo to compare. Then maybe I'll return the one I got and pick one of those up.

[cyberyanmar]

everytime i try to sketch the only thing i get ia straight line almos getting out of the canvas

[lastofthe13sons]

@EvilGiraffe22 hmmm, I always had the picker as a default and the arrow to show/hide the custom color pane even when I was using sketchbook pro 2010. Try this, on the menu bar, click "Window" and then "toolbar" on the toolbar, the color ring is on the far right. Maybe accessing it from that toolbar will give you the option to get the custom colors pane. Also you should update to service pack 2 and/or the copic edition.

[EvilGiraffe22]

@lastofthe13sons Thank you so much for your response! However I still really don't understand. :( I can get to the color wheel just fine, the dot under "current tool" is "current color" and, as you said, opens it. But either I don't have the correct version or am being a complete idiot, because I don't see anywhere within the color editor the arrows to open what you call the "custom colors pane." Is it maybe a preference I have turned off?