Autodesk Sketchbook Pro 6 for Desktop and iPad

Explore the Sketchbook Pro toolbar and ui controls, learn to show or hide the full ui, move the lagoon to the right, and customize the workspace for a clean workflow.

Explore how layer editing in Sketchbook Pro lets you explore blend modes, organize your document, control visibility and opacity, lock layers, and rearrange stacking order for flexible digital painting.

Learn to merge layers down to simplify your composition and rename layers for quick identification. Lock transparency to paint only on existing pixels, keeping lines clean and your workflow organized.

Master keyboard shortcuts in Autodesk Sketchbook Pro 6 for desktop and iPad to speed painting, using spacebar to pan/zoom, y for symmetry, s to switch brushes, and copy/paste with ctrl/cmd.

Adjust Sketchbook Pro preferences to tailor your workflow on macOS or Windows, manage undo limits, layers, symmetry, and brush settings, and optimize performance with resolution and canvas options.

Master canvas setup in sketchbook pro 6, from creating and opening canvases to adjusting size and memory. Use canvas rotation and mirroring to check proportions and spot mistakes across layers.

Discover saving options in Autodesk Sketchbook Pro 6, including tiff for cross-platform access with layers, psd and jpeg workflows, dng transparency, and iPad continuity.

Customize Sketchbook Pro menus and lagoon shortcuts by swapping tools, adding favorites, and assigning quick-access commands. Reset to default when needed to optimize your workflow with a stylus and keyboard.

Tour the brushes interface and learn to reveal, hide, and sample brushes. Explore pencil, airbrush, marker, chisel, ballpoint pen, and paintbrush strokes with adjustable pressure and opacity.

Explore fill tools and marker brushes in Sketchbook Pro 6, learning to close shapes for precise fills, layer fills, and realistic marker blending with Copic and synthetic brushes.

Explore effect brushes in the brush library, including smear, blur, and sharpen, and learn how these tools move and blend pixels to create textures like grass and clouds.

Create and customize your own do-it-yourself brushes in Sketchbook Pro, exploring brush types, textures, and controls like radius, opacity, pen pressure, rotation, and randomization to craft unique strokes.

organize your brush library by creating and naming brush sets, exporting or importing sets, and dragging brushes into new sets for categories like leaves, grass, clouds, and hair brushes.

Export brush sets to share with colleagues by saving a file on your desktop, and import brush sets from others, noting that some online sets may require individual brush imports.

Adjust pressure sensitivity to control brush opacity and stroke. Use the stylus responsiveness slider in the edit menu to tailor sensitivity for your workflow and the airbrush.

Explore symmetry in Sketchbook Pro to quickly flesh out characters and products by mirroring across the x and y axes on the ground plane, then add natural variation.

Explore synthetic brushes in Autodesk SketchBook Pro to achieve painterly effects, featuring interactive color blending and brush run-out with fast, responsive strokes for woodcut and ink textures.

Create custom brushes in Sketchbook Pro using the airburst tool to paint clouds, then capture artwork to build a cloud brush, adjust opacity, and experiment with leaf brushes.

Trace a downloaded leaf, convert it to a texture brush, and adjust spacing and rotation to paint soft-edged, varied foliage with autumn tones.

Explore Autodesk Sketchbook Pro 6 color palette, color editor, and color circle with sliders, mastering RGB and CMYK, swatches, and saving exact brand colors for web and print.

Explore the color puck in Autodesk Sketchbook Pro 6, a compact color panel with saturation, brightness, and value controls; use a multiply layer for watercolor-like color over line art.

Create and reuse custom palettes in Autodesk Sketchbook Pro 6 for desktop and iPad to keep character colors consistent across documents, name palettes, and apply saved swatches to multiple artworks.

Explore the built-in Copic library in Sketchbook Pro, with illustration and design sets, hue selection, and palettes. Apply color theory with the color wheel and complementary colors.

Explore how to apply random strokes with opacity and other effects using brush color options and a color wheel, dialing in saturation and brightness to stay within a color range.

Use the flood fill tool (paint bucket) to quickly fill a closed shape, adjust tolerance with a live preview, and save neutral gray backdrops as templates.

Master Sketchbook Pro 6 line tools to draw straight lines and basic shapes. Use polyline for connected lines and create logos, storyboards, or comic frames, then erase.

Use line tools to craft a quick logo with a red V over a circular background, layered with color fills and a soft red glow.

Learn to use the ruler to create street edges and boxes with symmetry and layers in Autodesk Sketchbook Pro 6, including scaling, rotating, and toggling symmetry.

Explore how Autodesk Sketchbook Pro 6 for desktop and iPad uses french curves to rotate, scale, and change curve types, creating waves and shark fins by combining shapes.

Apply steady stroke for precise tracing by focusing on the end of the guide dots, adjusting smoothness in the edit menu, and switching back to free stroke when needed.

Explore typography design in Sketchbook Pro 6 by creating and editing text layers, selecting fonts, resizing, rotating, coloring, and rasterizing type for logos and book covers.

Learn to convert text to artwork in Sketchbook Pro 6 by turning editable text and backing it up as a logo, then style with colors, opacity, brush, and ruler tools.

Master navigation in sketchbook pro 6 using the movement puck to pan, zoom, rotate, and scale artwork and the canvas with keyboard shortcuts for fit to view.

Explore selection tools in Autodesk Sketchbook Pro 6 for desktop and iPad, including marquee, lasso, and crop, to move, rotate, and scale with marching ants, preserving only the selected area.

Explore image adjustment tools to invert colors, convert to grayscale, and tweak brightness, contrast, hue and saturation, and color balance with preview.

Explore sketchbook pro for iPad's interface, from the top menubar to brushes. Create new documents, manage layers, and sync sketches with Mac via iCloud, import pictures and export to share.

Discover how to access, customize, and hide toolbars with the clutch, use color swatches and eyedropper, and quickly undo or redo as you sketch.

Master the clutch and puck workflow to hide the interface for a distraction-free canvas, then quickly reveal tools, adjust brush size, opacity, color, and swap tools.

Explore gestures and palm rejection in sketchbook pro 6 for desktop and iPad, using three-finger swipes to access brushes, layers, undo and redo, and customize tap and corner shortcuts.

Master layers in sketchbook pro 6 by creating, duplicating, merging, and deleting layers, importing reference images for tracing, and exploring opacity, blend modes, preserving transparency, and locking pixels.

Explore how layer techniques in Sketchbook Pro 6 work, using preserve transparency, opacity, and various blend modes like normal, multiply, add, and screen to control color and shading.

Discover how to use templates in Sketchbook Pro to speed artwork on tablet, including templates library items and iPad templates, storyboards, and perspective grids for one-point and three-point perspectives.

Explore the wide range of brushes in autodesk sketchbook pro 6, adjust brush properties, and apply pencils, airbrushes, markers, and texture brushes to real-world sketches and comic-style artwork.

Adjust brush radius, opacity, and taper to create varied strokes. Explore brush dynamics such as spacing, noise, rotation, and squish, and learn how desktop and iPad versions share these tools.

Discover how to use symmetry in sketchbook pro 6 on iPad to mirror strokes for logos and symbols. Learn to adjust the center stop and preferences for precise lines.

Master the color palette in Sketchbook Pro 6 by using the color wheel to adjust hue, saturation, and brightness, switch between RGB and color swatches, and preview changes with undo.

Save Sketchbook Pro files to iCloud from the Mac App Store to open them on your iPad, using the Sketchbook iOS format. Complex desktop files may lose layers when transferring.

Use Dropbox, a cloud storage service, to move and back up Autodesk Sketchbook Pro 6 files between desktop and iPad, share client folders, and access projects across devices.

Learn how to email a Sketchbook Pro file from your iPad to your desktop and use Dropbox to transfer sketches between devices.