Certificate Course in Autodesk Sketchbook

Explore Autodesk Sketchbook, a free digital drawing and painting tool for beginners to professionals. Learn features like multiple layers, custom brushes, perspective guides, symmetry, zoom, rotate, and export.

download Autodesk sketchbook from the official site, select your operating system (Windows or Mac), and start the free download and installation process.

Install Autodesk Sketchbook on your computer by downloading, running the installer, accepting the license, and completing setup with a desktop shortcut and quick launch toolbar and file format associations.

Navigate the Autodesk Sketchbook user interface, including the toolbar, color editor, brush palette, brush library, and layers editor, to begin simple and professional digital paintings.

Discover how to customize the Sketchbook canvas by adjusting height, width, units, and resolution in preferences, then create a new 1:1 canvas and navigate with zoom and the hand tool.

Master the pencil tool and Marcato (marker) tool in Autodesk Sketchbook by adjusting brush size, opacity, and color, using shortcuts, drawing with mouse, and exporting the current sketch.

Learn to use airbrush and paint brush in sketchbook to create soft edges, clouds, and skylake appearance; explore color selection, and basic and advanced brush settings for digital drawing.

Explore creating expressive drawings in Autodesk Sketchbook using the chisel tip and felt tip pens, adding shadows, highlights, and lighting with color edits and rotation to build artwork.

Use the inking pen to create glass-like effects and combine it with the ballpoint pen for digital painting, adjusting size and opacity to control strokes.

Explore smear, blur, and sharpen tools to blend colors with the background, soften edges, and sharpen details, creating intentional artwork and creative variations.

Learn to use hard and soft erasers in Autodesk SketchBook to erase on a specific layer while preserving the background.

Learn to use color in sketchbook with the color wheel and airbrush, adjust brush size, and sample colors from your artwork.

Master the brush puck in Autodesk Sketchbook to adjust brush size, opacity, and color, and navigate the color book to tweak values on the dashboard for dynamic strokes.

Explore the Autodesk SketchBook toolbar, using undo and redo, and learn to manipulate the canvas with the space bar, including pan, zoom, rotate, and drag motions.

Master selection techniques in Autodesk SketchBook, including rectangle selection, the lasso and polygonal laser tool, magic wand with tolerance, and sampling across multiple layers.

Explore flood fill to apply solid or gradient colors on a selected area, using linear and radial gradients with adjustable points, then crop the canvas with the crop tool.

Learn the transform tool and quick transform tool in Autodesk SketchBook, transforming artwork, adjusting scale and aspect, and selecting regions to move, scale, or rotate.

Discover how to add a text layer in Autodesk SketchBook, choose font and color, edit text, adjust size, and place text using the quick transform tool.

Learn to create precise circles and ellipses with the ellipse tool, adjust scale and rotation, and shape the cup. Use the ruler for perfect lines and add Franchesco's default shapes.

Master one point, two point, and three point perspective in Autodesk Sketchbook, using vanishing points and horizon lines to construct accurate, scalable drawings with locking options.

Master symmetry tools in Autodesk SketchBook to create mirrored drawings using radial symmetry and two-way symmetry, enabling reflective artwork of mountains, faces, and more.

Explore steady stroke and predictive stroke tools in Autodesk Sketchbook to craft smooth outlines, adjust spacing, and generate guided lines for precise sketches.

Discover how to use the draw style option, apply tool properties to lines, rectangles, and ovals, and create custom shapes with brush, area, and smear tools in Autodesk SketchBook.

Use the layer editor in Autodesk SketchBook to manage the background and multiple layers, adjust color and transparency, and apply blending modes while organizing with new or grouped layers.

Explore the color editor in Autodesk Sketchbook, using the eyedropper to pick colors, adjust with palettes and the color wheel, fine-tune saturation, and apply transparency to edits.

Explore the Copic library in Sketchbook, with elicitation and design color categories, drag colors into a custom set, enable or hide palettes, and apply varied color palettes to digital illustration.

Explore texture essential brushes in sketchbook, navigate the library to sample signature ink, pencil, soft, speckled, spackled, dry, and watercolor tools, and erase textures with the eraser.

Explore Copic brushes in Autodesk Sketchbook, adjusting density, size, color, and transparency to create varied brush appearances. Learn how Coppock tool, copy drawing Panov, and copy superposition shape strokes.

Explore a brush library of 18 synthetic paintbrushes and learn how each tool blends colors with the background to create varied textures in digital painting.

Explore traditional brushes in Autodesk SketchBook, adjusting size, spacing, and opacity to create pencil-like and textured strokes, and experiment with multiple brushes for soft and hard finishes.

Explore texture brushes and tools in Autodesk Sketchbook, testing brush presets to create varied textures, including hatching, charcoal, and scratches for digital painting.

Learn to use shape brushes in Autodesk Sketchbook, preview various brushes like cluster, fiber, and abstract, adjust size and color, and create diverse surface textures.

Master splatter brushes in Autodesk SketchBook by selecting colors and brush types to create splatter effects, using black and white for contrast. Adjust spacing, rotation, and scaling for results.

Explore glow brushes using globalizers in sketchbook, applying Globish, neon glow, and related tools to render color, background, and glow effects across layers.

Learn to use smudge brushes in Autodesk Sketchbook to blend multiple colors, apply textures, highlights, and shadows with various brush tools, ink pens, and pressure settings.

Explore designer brushes in Autodesk Sketchbook, including pencil, watercolor pencil, paint, fine line pen, digital brush, and markers, and learn how each tool creates varied digital artwork.

Explore the artist brushes in Autodesk SketchBook, learning how to choose pencils, apply color, adjust spacing and rotation, and use blending, wash, and conceptual tools for texture.

Explore pastel brushes in the Precious Library, learning how eleven pencil tools behave—from soft blender to hard line and triangle—demonstrated with single strokes, color decay, and layered effects.

Discover colorless brushes in Autodesk SketchBook and how they blend colors into your artwork without adding color. Learn how tools like brush types and soft blending control value and stroke.

Explore how to enable and manage the lagoon interface in Autodesk Sketchbook, access tools such as color editor, brushes, layers, and interface control to customize your digital artwork.

Explore the primary colors—red, blue, and yellow—and learn how their pure colors create all other colors, with secondary and tertiary colors forming from mixing for painting.

Discover how secondary colors green, orange, and purple form by mixing primary colors red, blue, and yellow, and explore digital color matching with smudge and eyedropper tools.

Explore how tertiary colors form by blending a primary with a secondary color in Autodesk Sketchbook, using examples like red with purple and blue with green.

Learn how tint, adding white to a pure color, creates light and highlights in painting with Autodesk Sketchbook, and apply it using color palettes and brushes.

Master shade techniques in Autodesk Sketchbook by gradually adding black for shadows, controlling lighting on objects, and creating depth in digital paintings.

Create tone by mixing pure color with gray, add black for darks, and adjust weight to build tonal variation in Autodesk Sketchbook; learn flood fill and color blending for painting.

Learn to create one-point perspective drawings in autodesk sketchbook by starting a new document, selecting the perspective option, unlocking guidelines, placing the point, and starting your artwork.

Create guidelines for one-point perspective by establishing a vanishing point, drawing lines to build buildings, roads, water, and platforms, and using endpoints and diagonal lines toward the vanishing point.

Explore one point perspective by constructing a street view with multiple buildings, then add windows and doors, adjust lines, and refine the drawing in Autodesk SketchBook.

Learn to create road details and a mountain using one-point perspective, guided by depth-enhancing guidelines, line work, and erasing unwanted areas for a refined digital artwork.

Color a simple one point perspective drawing in Autodesk SketchBook by filling regions with chosen colors, adjusting color values for sky, houses, doors, and scenery to create contrast.

Learn to set up two-point perspective in Autodesk Sketchbook, using picture guides to establish two vanishing points, then start with black pencil strokes.

Create a fence in two-point perspective by defining height with a vertical line, linking the two points, and adding fence segments and a walking platform on both sides.

Create a two-point perspective house within a street scene by defining building height, adding guiding lines, and placing doors, windows, and partitions.

Remove guidelines and erase unwanted areas in a two-point perspective drawing, keep the tree segments, address gaps, and use the selection tool to delete lines before filling color.

Finish a two-point perspective sketch by building tree-like forms with a traditional brush, then color with greyscale values in Autodesk SketchBook, balancing light and dark areas.

Enable three-point perspective guides in sketchbook, place and adjust the three vanishing points, then draw using a black color to create a three-point perspective drawing.

Learn to construct a three-point perspective building by laying out diagonal and side lines, defining the top view, adding doors and windows, and colorizing to reveal the final look.

Colorize a three-point perspective drawing in Autodesk Sketchbook by filling areas with deliberate color choices, lighting, and shading to reveal walls, windows, and top views.

Create a digital landscape in Autodesk SketchBook on a one-to-one ratio canvas, adjust dimensions and resolution via the edit menu and preferences, then create a new document with updated settings.

Enable the layout editor, sketch a basic silhouette landscape on a separate layer in Autodesk Sketchbook, and plan mountains, plants, and trees with perspective.

Create a sky scene in Autodesk SketchBook by using layers, colors, airbrush, and washes, then adjust opacity and blend to add stars and distant mountains.

Create a mountain background using layered colors and the sketchbook tools. Outline roughly with the ink pen, refine with dark blue tones, and add details on separate layers.

Add parts and fill columns using layers in Autodesk Sketchbook, apply color, and refine details with brushes to create shadows, highlights, and foliage like trees and shrubs.

Learn to add foliage details and grasses using layers in Autodesk SketchBook, build a background, and refine a silhouette landscape with color planning and precise edges.

Learn to draw trees on a landscape in Autodesk SketchBook by planning placement, starting with leaves for relief, then forming stems and branches with ink pens and black tones.

Create a simple digital landscape focusing on foreground grasses and foliage using Autodesk SketchBook. Build with layers, add details with inkpen, and adjust size and outlines for a natural look.

Add details and finalize a simple digital landscape in Autodesk SketchBook by adjusting tool properties, matching colors, and disabling outlines.