Learn Autodesk Sketchbook Pro and its Tools from Basic Drawing for Beginners to Sketching Products

1. 1. Learn Autodesk Sketchbook Pro from Basics to Sketch Drawings Introduction: Hello students, welcome to the most exciting course in Autodesk Sketchbook Pro. This is a pretty handy and interesting software to learn the basics of digital drawings. I will show you how we can exactly designed something new. In this course, we will learn how we can exactly download and install the software. How we can configure the tools. What are the important things that we are going to discuss, how the brushes are working, how we can import new brushes into our library, and how the layers in the software works. This course is for the beginners in digital art or product design or engineering students who wanted to illustrate their drawings or share their ideas with their claims. If you are using your mouse on your PC, it will be hard for us to learn digital drawings. So I strongly suggest you to obtain a drawing pad or a tablet to install the software and practice drawings. Then after it will be very easy for us to do the quick works like cut, copy, paste, undo, etc. So then it will be very interesting for us to learn and do the drawings, right? So why are you waiting? Let's just go to the course and let's get started. 2. 2. Autodesk Sketchbook Main Menu: I hope you have download and install Autodesk Sketchbook Pro software. And I'm going to head over to the software directly. So this is the software and its interface. In this interface, I'm going to explain all of the user interface is over here. Here. If you go over to this file menu and then you will have a bunch of different options available for you to configure the firewall. So they are same like other softwares. Maybe if you click this new, a new document will be opened for you. And if you go to the File and then New flip book, it's a different one if you want to create GIFs or animated sketches. And then you have to use this flip book option, right? We'll talk about that later. And here, the Open icon, you know that if you want to open the documents that are used to design sketchbook, you can open them right here. This is open reason. If you have reason files, you can open them. And then the save icon here for the shortcut keys same controlled plus S is used to save the document. Save As you know that, right? So if you want to save it on the, another different place, you need to do this Save As option for the shortcut, I prefer to use control plus shift plus S to save this one down, this one. And save a copy. As of course, if you want to save a copy and you need to do this command. So in this file menu, you have Add Image option. That means you can add separate images into the software and you can make them as a reference sketches or reference images, and then you can do the sketching. So that's a good thing in this Autodesk Sketchbook. Here you have a page setup if you want to set up your page size and different things for printing or other purposes. You can do that. Here. You can directly print if you are connected to the printer as well, and then you can send it to male. So for someone else, and here it's exit. So that's the File menu for you. And if you head over to the Edit menu and then you have the undo redo Cut Copy option. Of course, you can use these edit commands from this Edit menu, but you have some Edit menu options over these Quick Access ribbon as well. Here, if you go to this stylus responsiveness, then you can adjust how your stylus is going to behave for your responsiveness, right? So you can increase or decrease them according to your desired. And if you go to this one and then go to the preferences, that's the option we need to consider. In this preference, you can adjust the general settings. Maybe you can select the language or rotate the Canvas application or default, save format, PSD file or TAF. And here if I go to this brush options and then you can have some bunch of different brush options. We'll talk about the brush options later when we are talking about brushes. If you go to this canvas and this is called as your canvas, write, this paper is called as your canvas. In this Canvas you can, if you click this one, enable Canvas scroll bars, and then you can enable scrolling this canvas. Here, you can set up the resolution, right, according to your desire. If you go to this system option associated file types, what are the file types? You can save them or export them. If you check them. Tiff, JPEG, GIF, right? So when you are saving the document, and it will automatically save the additional these files as well in the folder, right? So that is why it's here. And here it's a hotkey. I definitely use most of the time. So for hotkeys, for quick access. So here they are basically looking similar or familiar to you, right? For new control plus n, Open Control plus 0, sale contract plus s. So this one is important. I prefer to use this one, control plus shift plus S. I most of the time use this command. And for the undo control Z, of course, redo control plus y and cut copy. They are similar to what we have familiar already. Here on the tools. That's what we have to focus more right here four, quickly opening a rectangle. You have to press M on your keyboard so that it will quickly open for a rectangle. You can draw rectangle if you click em on your keyboard. And Leso magic band. If you are going to select a magic when you can simply click W on your keyboard, I will tell you the use of usages of these commands in our next lecture. Just cover up there are some hotkeys and then we have to be aware about those things for quicker purposes. Right? And then the lagoon, lagoon is called as this one. If you want, you can customize them according to your frequent tools that you are using most of the time. And factory defaults if you want to raise it your brushes palette. If you change the brush opacity or the thicknesses and then it will automatically reset into default, right? Then learn the color palette. You can customize the color palettes according to your desire, right? So that is the preferences for you moved to cancel them. And if you go to the Image menu and it has image size itself, right? So you can customize the image size according to your desire for pixels or percentage. How much you want to scale down or scale up your image. You can customize them here. And here. You can have the canvas size. You can crop it according to, or you can rotate it clockwise or counterclockwise. Mirror Canvas, etc. You can play around with these settings. And here you have a window. That means this window, which tools or items you want to show or hide them. Maybe if I click this toolbar and the toolbar will be sent out. So I'm going to have the, the default, okay, That's the window for you. And if you click this and you will obtain the default layout, right? But I like to have this Kotler editor over here, right? So you can obtain healthy from a sketchbook if you want to obtain a quick tour or whatever it is, something that is the File menu for you. If you don't understand anything, you can ask it to me some questions. And then we will start about this particular ribbon on our next lecture. 3. 3.Autodesk Sketchbook Canvas Zoom, Move and Rotate: So first things, first, in Autodesk sketchbook, if you want to zoom in or zoom out, it's very simple. You can test, will rotate your mouse upwards to zoom in or downwards the zoom. So that is the zoom in and zoom or function for you in here. And here you can simply press the spacebar on your keyboard to access to this one. Alright, it's a quick rotate canvas or rotate or move Canvas. If you want to move the canvas in the left or right, whatever the direction, you can do that by pressing the space and holding that one right. After that, you can move your mouse over here. And then you can press your mouse, and then you can play around with the canvas, right? If I release the space bar on my keyboard and then that will be gone. If you press it again. And then you want to Zoom the Canvas inside. So for that, you need to head over your mouse, pointing this spectacular. And then you have to hold your mouse and move your mouse upwards and downwards to zoom in or zoom out. I release the mouse button. And now I'm going to release the space bar. So that is how it works. And you have the Quick Access in here as well. Zoom, rotate the canvas space bar. And here you can press the Space bar on your keyboard. And then you can click this one and hold your mouse, and then you can rotate your mouse whatever the place you like to rotate the canvas as you wish. I release the mouse button and I'm going to release the space bar. So that is how Move Rotate Canvas works. 4. 4. Autodesk Sketchbook Selection Tools Select and Deselect: And here, this is a selection bar. And if you want to select something, you can do that one. As an example, let's say I draw like this and I'm going to select this portion on leave for that, you can go to this one. And then I can click this rectangular selection tool bar like this. And then I can left-click my mouse and hold it like this to select this portion. Let's say I want to have this portion to be cut, right? For that, I need to press Control plus X on my keyboard to do that. And let's say I wanted to paste that over here. For that, I need to press control V on my keyboard to have that. If I want, I can move that wherever the place I like to. You can press it like this. You can hold the mouse button on that one and then you can rotate it like this. If you want to scale this up, you have to move your mouse on here. Then you have to press and hold your mouse left button. And then you have to move your mouse upwards or downwards to scale it up or scale it down. That one. Right here. If you click this and hold, and then it will be moody like this. If you wanted to rotate, you have to click and hold your leftmost on that one, and then you have to rotate it like this. So that is how this works. If you understand how this works, this bar or this circular icon works. And then everything in this sketch book will be easy for you to understand, right? So I'm going to close that one. And here you have a bunch of different options available for you to select something. So this is the oval shaped selection like this. And then you can click Control X to cut, Control V to paste, right? So here, why the desired one was not selected, right? Can you, can you identify that? What is the problem? The problem here is that I'm currently on another layer. That that means I'm on another page. Another sheet that is on the front of the background sheet that is called layers. Here, if you click this Layers icon, you can understand how the work. Right here. It's a background layer. This is the background layer, and this is the first layer that I drew this sketch after I cut and paste. And then it will create automatically a new layer called as layer number two. Here, you can show or hide those layers like this. And then when I was doing the paste again, and then it will create another layer, that is the layer three. That is why the layer is shown here. If you want to do it in a single layer, in a single piece of sheet, you need to combine them, all right, For that, you have to click and hold your left mouse button on this one. And then you have to click this one. You have to move. You can move your cursor like this, right? And then you have to move your cursor on here. So currently I'm holding my mouse button, I need to release it. So if I release this with this one and then it will merge with the billowed layer and the third sheet, the second sheet will be merged as a single sheet to act as a second sheet. Then if I click and move this one, or maybe if I move this one and then it will all be merged together to act as a single piece of sheet. So that's what I'm going to do now. If I click this merge all and then you will have only one layer. You can be, you can add, delete this background layer. Maybe you can hide these if you want. Can not be able to delete that. So currently now I'm in the first layer. And then the first layer contains every drawing that I have drawn over here. Now, if you want to cut that, right, maybe using a oval shape or a lesser selection, maybe less. So selection is this one. You can move into whatever the position like you want here. You can select them. And then you can cut down this one and you can paste it down here. So then the third layer will be creator. Of course, the layer number three will be created and you can merge them. You can merge all them to have it on the single layer, right? So that is the Selection tool for you. You can select this one. This means a polyline one. You can click that one. And then it will add a line segment endpoint. And then you can add another polygons end point, and then at that point and then point up to so on. After you have completed your selection, you can double-click that one to select that one. And then you can press Control plus X to cut that. And then you can Paste it on another layer like this. You can move it or scale it down like this. Right now. I'm going to explain something new for you. So I'm going to merge them all up for that here. If you go to this magic one tool, then it will select whatever the drawing you want to cite. And if I select someone like this, and then it will select the magic, whatever it's inside the drawing, it will select that one, right, for the better illustration. I'm going to illustrate it to you. Buy a new layer. I'm going to delete this layer. For that, I need to have another one. So then I can delete this layer. In this layer, I'm going to sketch a circle for you, right? Or maybe a box like this. So this is close to one. It's a closed box. Right? Now what I'm going to do is I'm going to select everything else rather than the box. For that purpose, you can use this magic one option if you click the magic one tool, and this is the magic one tool. And if you press it on the other side outside of this box, and then you can select it, this one, right? So I'm going to cancel that. If you want to select this box only you can select inside the box. You can cut it down and paste it somewhere else. So then you will have this icon like this, right? So that is the magic one tool for you. You can configure them here on another one. You can add them, right? If you check this one, sample, one, sample all layers, and then this one, right? So this one will select all the things in all these layers. So that is the selection of sample one or sample all layers. It will select everything that is showing on your screen. Regardless of selecting the layers one by one, it will select everything else that you select on your screen, right? So that is the sample one or sample all layers tool for you. And then here it has a replacement. If you select another one, it will replace the selection from here to that. If you select another one that will replace this one here, if you check this one and select it, and then it will add them together, right? If you select another one, and then it will add like this. And rather than using this one, if you use this Remove option and then it will remove a particular portion like this. Right? So that is the Selection tool for you. And here this one is an inward option. You have selected currently this one, if you want to invert, that means you want to select the rest of the things on your Canvas. You need to click this one, then the rest of the things will be selected. For that one. If you want a king sell that one, you can click this de-select icon to de-select everything you have selected. Right? So that is the selection for you. And I'm going to click Escape to escape from the selection option, right? So this is the de-select option if you select something and if you want to dislike something, and then you can click that one. So let me cancel this, right? 5. 5. Autodesk Sketchbook Crop and Quick Transform Tool: So here, now what I'm going to do is I'm going to explain this crop option. If you want to save something that should be cropped or you want to save some portion of your drawings. So this is the best option for you. If you want to make some straight lines, you need to press Shift on your keyboard and then you have to draw lines like this. Then your lines will become straight lines, right? So this will work for horizontal lines and vertical lines, right? If you want to draw some diagonal lines, straight lines, you have to press and hold D on your keyboard and then you have to draw some diagonal lines, right? So this will work diagonally. I'm going to have a new sketch book right here. This is a quick transform tool, right? Let's say you have designed a box like this. And this box looks too scaled up. That means is too much. And you want to scale it down a bit. So you can do that quickly by pressing this quick transform icon and then you can rotate them. You can rotate them. Or maybe if you want to scale it down like this and you can do it quickly, right? So that is the quick transform tool for you. And this is the transform tool if you select that one and then you can transform it like this. If it's a shape is doesn't look pretty good and then you can easily transform it or maybe applying some perspectives. You can do that one, distort, it's a scale option, right? So it will scale it down, up and down. And this will transform this job. That means it will move the handles like this, right? Without scaling them. Here, you can cancel them if you don't want to have that transformation. If you want to hand the transformation, you need to click this one, right? So then you will have that transformation 6. 6. Autodesk Sketchbook Floodfill Tool: And this one, this is called as a paint bucket. In your paint. This is a fluid-filled option in Sketchbook Pro. If you click that and then you will have three different options for you to fill the closed areas. That's very important. Closed areas. If you click that, then this area will be filled. And then I need to press Control Z to undo that. And here you want to paint this area. You can click that simply. It's very simple. But what I usually do is I usually do this catches on the first layer or first, second, third layers and use a separate layer for the paintings or for coloring purposes, right? Then that will provide me an extra layer of safety for my drawings. If I wanted to change the colors or delete some areas of portions and apply some different colors. That will give me an extra layer of safety for my basic catches, you can just simply click this color it Editor icon. And then the color Editor icon will appear over here. And then you can choose the colors, whatever the color you want to apply for. Right here, you can overhear, you can use this zero point over here to select which color area you want to choose as an example, or light blue. And then this is the color, right? So currently is in black. And if you want to select it to the light blue or light, you can select that one. Or maybe you can change it to RGB or HSL, right? So here, you can change in RGB, you can change this color as well, like this, right here as well. And then the color will be showing over here. This is the color you are currently selected, or here, right? So I'm gonna go in with this one, this color and apply it to here. Right. Now that the color will be applied, but it's a solid color. What if, if you wanted to apply some gradient colors? So I'm going to quickly undo that one. So if you want to apply a gradient fill, you have to select this one and then you can click that one, and then you can double-click that one to change the color. Or you can double-click this one to change the other side's color like this. And then after you can move it down like this. So here to adjust the fill proportions like this, right? So maybe you can adjust them like this. And here it's a grayish color. You can change it to like this, to have a different color like this. So that is how you can fade with the colors, right? So it's a gradient field and it's a linear gradient. That's the thing we need to consider. It's a linear Ville. And what if you wanted to apply a just cancel that. And what if, if you wanted to apply a radial fill as an example, if you have, I've drawn a circle, right? And you want to apply a gradient fill into it like a radial gradient, right? So I need to go to this one and I can apply a red color in it like this. And then I can move the color palette according to my desire. If you don't want this point to be there, you can just simply delete that one. And then you can have two colors, right? If you want to apply some kind of shadows in this model, you can do that one like this, right? So that is how you can apply some shadows in here. So if I double-click this one, and then they can change the color maybe into dark black to outline the perfect shadow. Yeah. So that is how you apply some radial radiant to your designs according to whatever you like it. If I click Okay, and then that will be applied to that one, right? So that is the fill option, flood fill option for you, right? So I'm going to uncheck that one. 7. 7. Autodesk Sketchbook Text Tool: And here it's a text option, right? So if you want to add some text in your sketches or the drawings, you can click that one. But as a result of adding this one, and it will add another text layer over here. If I click that one, you can notice that here. And another layer will be added here. As an example, if I type world. So here I place it over here. You can notice that here I can, if I move my cursor towards this one and press the left mouse button and move it like this. And then it will move. And if I press this one and then it will scale it like this right here. If I press this one, and then it will uniformly scale that one, right? And press that one and scale it maybe in this direction or in this direction, right? That's the scale option for you. And then you can, if you press down this one and move it like this, then it will rotate like this. I'm going to close this one. However, even if I add this text on my drawings, it will be added as a separate layer on that, right? So it's a separate layer, doesn't connect these two things. And even I can not be able to grow anything on this layer as well, because it's a separate layer for only this particular text. We can not draw anything for that, but you need to do is if you want to draw something newly, you need to create another layer by adding plus icon of this one. Or you need to press this layer because you are currently in this third layer. You can sketch anything on this layer as shown in the cursor. But you can do sketching on this layer because it's a sketch layer. You can sketch something like this, right? Or what you can do is you can rasterize this text layer into a sketch layer. That means it's a text, right? Currently you can edit it, right? If I press and hold on the text layer. And then I wanted to click this one edit text layer. And then I can change it to worlds or blah, blah, blah. I can change them. Now. I have to click that one and hold it. And I need to click this one or rasterize text layer. And then the layer will be a rasterized into a sketch layer. Right now, I cannot be able to edit it, right, since you can see that there is no, a good way to edit that text, but it's a sketch. But I can adjust that or erase them because it's a sketch. If I increase my eraser, so then you can notice that it's a sketch, right? So that is the difference between the text layer and Eros polarized. It takes the layer rasterize the text layer means it's a sketch, right? 8. 8. Autodesk Sketchbook Guide Curves: Now what I'm going to do is I'm going to explain it to some important and interesting things in sketchbook. Need to change the color, double-click that, and change it to black. Here if I click this one and then they have some guides, right? So they are interesting because we can press them like this and we can add some straight lines like this by adding a ruler. And the best thing here is it has measurements itself right here. If I click that point and I want to place the point over here. And let's say I want to measure that on the place. Maybe an angle here from here to the angle, or maybe the x, y coordinates. Likewise, I can design some sketches having accurate dimensions, right? So what is the purpose of doing this ruler is basically, I need to place some end points of the sketches to obtain the proper proportions of the sketch. After I obtain the proportions and then I can easily draw them, right? So that is why we use a ruler over here with the scale option. So here you can adjust them according to your desire and then you can draw them right after placing this ruler, you can not be able to grow something outside the ruler. That's the thing you need to consider here, right? You can draw only with the ruler. So the next guide is this curve, right curved ruler. If you want to add some interesting and smooth curves inside some good translations and then you can use this ruler, right? I'm going to increase the mockers thickness a little bit by pressing the right close bracket for so then you can understand them easily, right? So that is the ruler for you. So in this roller, this is the point. You can select this point, and then you can select this point. So these are constraint points, right? So this option is N scale option if you want to scale those points. And then you can do that by having adjusting that one. You have to click that by pressing the left mouse button. And then you have to move your mouse upwards or downwards to scale up and down, right? Then this is called as a meter option. And then this curve as an example, if I had a curve like this and if I press this one and then it will be mirrored like this. Then the other one is rotating option. You can rotate the curves like this to adjust according to your desire, like this. Lease. And then this is the close button of this guide curve, right? I'm going to draw this shape. Maybe you can read like this. I just did like this. To draw some lines like this, right? So that is how you can draw some guidelines by using the ruler. It's a curved ruler. And then you have some interesting shapes like this one. It's an ellipse. By using ellipse, you can draw some different kinds of shapes in perspective. That's the important thing you can consider over here. Here, I'm going to add an ellipse properly to draw perfectly, right? You have to scale it down like this. And then maybe you can add some shapes over here like this. You can add it, increase it by like this pressing and holding like this, you have to press and hold your mouse left button towards, upwards or downwards to have the shape like this. And then you can rotate it like this according to your desire, whatever it may be, and you have to place it accordingly. And then you can draw these shapes. And then the thing I need to tell it when we are placing this one, if you want a Zoom in your Canvas, you need to scroll it down like this, but the ruler will stay as it is. It will not go zooming, right? So then if you move that one, maybe accidentally, you need to adjust your ruler again, right? So then you need to adjust your ruler again and then you can obtain a shape. Here. It's another curve called as French curve, and then French curves. This one, this one, this 13 different actually, so three different French curves, actually sketchbook. So here you can scale them down to see them in our Canvas. Like this. Scale them up along curves. If you want to have some long curves, you can use that. Maybe like this. We want to adjust something like this. Scale them for their skeleton. Right? So I want to erase this. So maybe this one, right? So then you can obtain those kinds of shapes. I think, using an eraser shape like this. Right? So here you can play around with these things to obtain a better shape, right? So you can adjust them, maybe you can rotate them like this to obtain a shape, whatever you wanted to have here, right? So that is the French curve for you. You can adjust them and play around with those curves. I will explain them when we are talking about some examples. 9. 9. Autodesk Sketchbook Perspective Guides: The next thing in sketchbook we're going to see is perspective guides, right? So if I click that and then it will open up a perspective guide. And I'm currently on the single-point perspective mood. So why do we use this kind of perspective guides? So the reason behind it is if we wanted to illustrate something realistically, then we need to consider the perspective view guides, right? So as an example, let's say we are going to draw some street lights and then it has only one point perspective. And then we need to constrain by the boundary lines, right? So the vertical lines will come like this. And of course the horizon, the lines will come like this. But the other lines, that means the diagonal lines and other lines will converge into this point. So that is why we call them as single-point perspective, right? So this line will converge into that one. And this line will converge into that one right? In between. This will act as a wall. But the distance between this and this and this, they are equal in length. So they have equal length. But the problem here is it's perspective. It will look like shorter and shorter when they go longer and longer from our eye level. Right. And then the first strip light will be somewhere over here, and then the second street light will be somewhere over here. And then the third one will be somewhere over here. Right? So that is how we draw some kinds of single-point perspective lines by using these kinds of guides. So basically, I prefer to use a two-point perspectives so that in order to obtain the reference marks of the lines, I used to do this two-point mood, right? So the two-point months, it's similar to what we have learned on our first point perspective. If I click that and then the two points will be there, right? Two vanishing points are there and the lines will converge onto those two points, right? So as an example, if I draw a house like this, and then the house, this line will converge to that point. And this line will also converge to that point. So similarly on the house, on the side and this side will also converge like this and like this, right? So then we can have some kinds of drawings like this. And then maybe if we have a window that will also converge, so each and every line will converge onto those two points. Alright? So basically, the trick behind considering these two point perspective is usually, usually placed those two points outside of my canvas or the paper, and then try to draw some drawings. So then it will be more realistic if I draw it on my Canvas, right? So that is a technique behind just you can place the vanishing points outside of your Canvas and try to draw something on your canvas. So then that will be more realistic than that. You get an idea about that one. So it's a two point perspective. There are two vanishing points on this sketch. And as an example, if I obtain a new one and then go to this three point perspective, and then everything on the drawing will converge to three vanishing points. As an example, if I draw something like this and this will be going to that one, this will be going to this one. So like this, this will converge into three points, right? So that means that we have our eye on in this direction over here. And then this will converge into this point and this point and this point. So that is how we draw three-point perspectives. And another one we have here is the Frechet mode. In this mode, if you want to draw some kinds of geometrical shapes or the patterns. And then you can use them to draw something like this, right? So they will converge into those points and then we can draw some kinds of shapes like this, right? So that is why we have this one. Then we have a snap or on snap option. And then if you select that on your two-point perspective, if you set that to the snap option. And then I can snap that one, we can draw lines outside of the perspectives as well like this. But if you uncheck this one and you cannot be able to grow something, right? So if you want to quickly draw some lines that are not to be on the perspective line. You can check it or unchecking, right? So if you check that, if you snap that, you can only draw lines along with the perspective. That means it will converge to these vanishing points. But if you uncheck that, you can draw whatever the line you like. Right here, there's a lock or unlock vanishing points. If you'll look the vanishing points and then you don't have the option to change the vanishing points, right? So that is why we have a look option. Here. It's a show or hide the horizon line, right? So it will hide or show if you want to see the horizon line right now, you can sketch them quickly. If you are on snap that. If you snap that and then it will be like this, right? So that is why we use those kinds of perspective guides. 10. 10. Autodesk Sketchbook Symmetry: The next thing that we are going to see is symmetry. We have three different symmetry options. For S1 is vertical symmetry. That means it will be symmetrical along with the y-axis. And the next one is horizon tell symmetry, that means x symmetry. Whatever we draw, if I uncheck that and you can see only the horizon dosimetry, whatever I draw. And it will be symmetrical along with x axis. And in here, we can have both symmetry axis as well. As an example, if I obtain bullets, symmetry options, whatever I draw on a one quadrant that will be repeated on the other three quadrants as well, right? Like this, whatever I draw here, they will be symmetrical on the other quadrants as well. So that's why we use those kinds of symmetry option. If you wanted to draw some shapes like this, we can draw them. The next one we have here is a radial symmetry. If I check that the other symmetries will go over. And then we have a radial symmetry. We can increase or decrease the numbers of how many radial symmetry is that we wanted to have. So if you wanted to draw some kinds of shapes like this or maybe your flowers, we can use these kind of symmetry option for us to obtain those things, right? So the next one here is extend or stop strokes at center line. It's quite a bit useful if you uncheck that. What you can do is you can draw the lines vary over the place you'd like. But if you check that light like this, if you have this stopped strokes at central line option and then you cannot be able to pass over the line. That means if you are in this line in this area, you cannot be able to pass after that area, right? So that is the limitation of this one here. If you want, you can use them. Here. It's similarity, lock or unlock the symmetry lines, right? So it will be locked. You can not be able to change them. If you look, then if you unlock them, then you can change or replace them by using this one, right? And the other option we have here is show or hide symmetry lines. If you want to see or hide the symmetrical lines, then you can check this or uncheck this, right? So that's how it works. 11. 11. Autodesk Sketchbook Latency, Predictive Stroke and Shapes: Now we are going to say, what is this one? This is called as steady stroke. And let's say if you want to have some delays when you are doing the strokes as an example, if you want a drawing like this, and then you'll have an option like this. By using this delay, you can move your mouse cursor somewhere like this, and then you can obtain a curved surface like this, right? So that is why we use that state. That means that it will have a time dilation between your strokes and your most, right. So that is why we use them. So here you can go over like this. You can change your motion direction and suddenly like this. So if we want to draw some kinds of shapes with the delay option, you can use them. Here. You can increase or decrease the delay, right? So I'm on my maximum. So if I draw like this, and then you can notice that how much it delays, right? So by using this delay, I can move my mouse cursor somewhere else. I need them. And then I can move it like this, right? So that is why we use them. And here, it's an interesting thing. I pretty loud to use this. It's a predictive stroke. So we can increase or decrease them, right? So why we use predictive strokes, right? So basically, they are very interesting. If we are having a low DPI mouse, then we can use this to draw some kinds of geometrical shapes. As an example, if you draw a ellipse like this, and then it will automatically make it as an ellipse, right? So that is why we use this predictive stroke, right? So if you draw some shaky lines and then it will make it as good line for you. And then it will draw a pretty much good shape of it, right? So you can increase or decrease it according to your desire, how much you like to have a shapes, right? So that is why we use them in our designs for predicting strokes. If you are losing a low DPI mouse, of course you can use them. But if you are using a stylus or the pen on your computer or your tablet, or externally used as a device to draw something. And I highly recommend for you to obtain such a way, then you can draw it by your hand on a sketchbook. It will be pretty much easy and interesting. The next thing on the sketchbook that we are going to see is this one is called as a droves tire. Here, if you want to draw some kinds of lines, you can use them, right? So time-to-time, if we want to draw the lines, we need to click and hold. And then release it, click and hold. And we have Drew lazy according to the lines we want, right? So, but this one is different. It's a polyline. That means it's a continuous line. We have to click and hold it and place it somewhere else. Offer a whole and released that one. And then it will ask me to place another line on there. And then it will ask me to place another line, another line like wise, we can obtain a poly line like this. If I double-click that one, it will close the lines segments, right? That means it will be the end of that one. Right here is a rectangle, right? So you can place an drag and place it like this, right? Likewise, you can draw some kinds of rectangles. And this is oval shape. If you want to draw some kind of oval shapes, you can use them to draw them. But if you hold the Shift on your keyboard and then you can draw the circles, ovals if you hold your shift. And then you can draw some circles, right? So those are the shapes we have in sketchbook. The next thing we have here is a layers. I already explained. What is a layer? 12. 12. Autodesk Sketchbook Layers: Now here I'm going to go with a deep one with the layers. Layer can be named as a sheet of paper. You can think of like that, but it's a transparent one, right? One by one. You can play some kinds of sheets and draw whatever the paper you want to draw it right here. The background layer can now be changed, but maybe you can show or hide the layer. But if you double-click on this one, so then you can change the color of your background, right? So likewise, you can change the color of your background. Then this is the first layer. It should be there to grow something. You can now delete the first layer. But here if you click this plus icon and then you can add some kinds of layers. Or you can press control plus L to add some kinds of layers over it and blessing that one. So then you can add some kinds of layers or done right here. I'm currently on this layer, fifth layer because it's highlighted on the blue color mark. If you want to change what layer you want it to do the sketching. So then you have to click that fourth layer if you want to edit or draw some kinds of things. And here it's called as opacity of your layer. So you can increase or decrease that one. For an example, I need to choose a white color to sketch on the black background. So I sketch like this on the fourth layer and I reduce the transparency. That means opacity. This is how it will look like, right? So basically I draw some kinds of background shapes or some rough drawings. And then I reduce the opacity of the layer and over on the layer, that means on the fifth layer, maybe over the layer of the previous one. I used to draw the shapes perfectly like this, shape, like this. Right? And this is how the layers work. We can set them as a reference one. And then we can draw some kinds of shapes according to the reference sketches or even reference images, right? So that is why we use those kinds of things. Here. This one is reorder or layer. If you want to reset your sheets of paper in front of them or about them, or below them. You can rearrange them by clicking this one and moving them according to your desire, right? So now you have seen that the fifth layer comes below the third layer. This is called as a lock transparency, right? So if you'll look that transparency and then you cannot be able to draw something on the layer. The layer is fixed, right? So this layer is fixed. And if you uncheck that and you can draw some kinds of shapes on that layer, right? So that is why we use them. We can reorder them right here. You're going to show or hide that layer. That layer you can show or hide them. And then here you can change how it should blend with another layer, maybe a darken blend or multiply them. Likewise, you can change how the layers should blend together, right here. If you click and hold on that layer leftmost button, if you click and hold your left mouse button on that layer, then you will have some bunch of different options available for you. Hide the layer, duplicate the layer. You can add some new layers or them Delete layer, delete that particular layer. Or the layer. Of course, you can rename the layer for your later verbose. Or if you want to transfer that file to your other users, and then you can transform them by renaming those layers. It's a good practice renaming layers and merge all, merge all the layers and to act as a single sheet of paper and then merged with below layer. That means it will merge the below paper and this paper will be merged to act as a single paper. So that is why we use this merge with them below layer shortcut key is control class II and locked layer. So if you lock that layer, then you cannot be able to do or change or edit anything on the layer. But you can reorder this layer, of course. But you can not be able to edit or draw something on that layer, right? That is the local layer option. If you want to unlock that, you will have to hold it and then you have to move your mouse cursor on that and you have to release it, right? So that is how you unlock your layers. And this is called as a group. And if you click that and you can add a group, right? So here, if you click that layer and add to that layer, and then it will be grouped. And here you can click that layer and move it to that folder. So then these two will be on these group two folder, right? Likewise, you can group them according to your desire. Right here you can change the layers button as well. Maybe the colors, maybe red color one. So then the group color really changed. Of course you can change this as well, right? So here you can change different kinds of layer colors for you to quickly understand what is the layer is about. Color codes, right? Then this is called as image. If I click that and I can add some images to that one, right? So if I have this image, and then I can add then at that particular image to my sketchbook. And then I can start drawing or start attacking that one, right? Maybe I can reduce that opacity like this. And then they can, on the, on the layer, I can draw the lines. Now what I'm going to do is I'm going to delete all the layers. So I need to click this one, hold shift and select this one. So these layers are selected. And I'm gonna go to this menu option and delete that, then that layers will be deleted, right? So that's the layer for you, hopefully understandable these layers option. And we will move on to the brushes, right? So this is called S brush pallet. So if I check this and then it will show if I unchecked 13. 13. Autodesk Sketchbook Brushes: That will be hidden right here on this brush pallet. You have pencil, and then you have airbrush and marker, chisel tip, pen, etc. So you have a bunch of different options available for you to choose from, right? So this is a pencil and you can erase them, right? So to increase the size of that one, you can do it in a couple of ways. If you double-click that and then you have the size over here, you can increase it or decrease it by adjusting the handle and amount of erased. How many amongst you want it to be erased. So I prefer to use hundred percent for this eraser. So close that, so then I can erase them like this. Alright, so the next way is using the shortcut keys, right? So for the shortcut key is increasing this one. You can increase it by pressing this one, you can, can decrease them, right? So if I press 0 on your keyboard and move your mouse upwards, so then you can increase amount erased, move your mouse down wars. You can reduce ammonia erased, right? Okay, understand about that one. Like this. Right? So you can draw some shapes, right? And then you can paint it with the different color. You can select a different color. Maybe you need to increase the brush size, right? Likewise, I can paint it. Right? This one, we can have some blurriness options like days. Of course, we can have some different options available here. You can choose from different items, right? So now we're going to learn how we can change these pencils. For that, we can click this one so that the brush properties will be appearing or you can double-click that particular pin. Here. This pen is available with the different size of flow, right? And witness, right? So you can adjust it and draw them like this, right? So if you click that and then it will open up your brush library, right? So here you can change which brush library you want to have or that one. Alright? If you are an artist, you can use them or pastels are colorless, right? You can choose from different brushes available on Autodesk sketchbook. I wanted to have this pallet to be there. What do you need to do is you have to click this and hold your mouse. And then you have to go to this, been set to pellet option, then that will be pinned on your palette, right? And then you can move upwards or downwards, or these libraries. And then you have bunch of different options. New brush set. If you want to create a new brush set, of course you can do that and customize them. And this one is new brush. You can add new brushes to your sets and a copy brush, brush, brush set. This is another thing that we are going to see over here, right here. Export brush said, if you have customized and created your own one brush, it's set, then you can upload it, or maybe you can sell it online. Right? Now, we are going to see how we can exactly import a brush set. For that, we need to download a brush set for Autodesk sketchbook. And then after what we need to do is we need to go to the library. And then we have to go and select this one, hold the left mouse button. And then we have to click this import brush set option. And then our curve, we need to select the downloaded file for the brush set here. This is the example file set that I have downloaded. And I need to click Open and then offer some time. And then your brush sets will be imported into our library. And then what we need to do is we need to select this brush set and then we need to apply it to brush pallet to place it down here. To do that, we need to go and select this pin set to palette. So then our palette will be appearing here. And then we can close this library. And then we can use our brush set that we have downloaded. You can choose our palette and roll the lines