Certificate Course on Fundamentals of Digital Painting

Discover Autodesk Sketchbook, a free digital painting tool with layers, a vast brush library, custom brushes, and features like spacebar zoom, perspective guides, and symmetry for art and architecture.

Learn to download Autodesk Sketchbook for Windows or Mac from the official site, using a free version, and prepare to install in the next lesson.

Install Autodesk Sketchbook on desktop by running the installer, accepting the license, choosing destination, enabling shortcuts, selecting all file formats, and completing the installation to launch the software.

Explore the Autodesk Sketchbook user interface, including the five menus, toolbar customization, color and brush tools, layers editor, color editor, and the Copic library of preset colors for digital painting.

learn to create and customize a canvas in Autodesk Sketchbook by adjusting dimensions, units, and resolution, create new canvases, and save as PSD or TIFF with zoom and hand tools.

Utilize the pencil and marker tools in the brush palette, adjust brush size and opacity, and export brushes in Autodesk Sketchbook to create digital art with a mouse.

Demonstrates using airbrush for soft edges and sky clouds in Autodesk Sketchbook, then switches to paint brush to craft textured details with adjustable size, opacity, and advanced options.

Master chisel tip and felt tip pens in Autodesk Sketchbook, delivering calligraphic strokes, rotation adjustments, shading with dark and light values, highlights, shadows, and ink distribution with the mouse.

Explore digital painting with ballpoint and inking pens, learn to create grass-like textures, adjust size, color, and opacity, and blend edges with the airbrush for detailed artwork in this lesson.

Explore smear to blend colors like finger smudging, then use blur to soften edges and sharpen to restore clarity for concept art and dynamic digital painting.

Learn to use hard and soft erasers in Autodesk SketchBook to create sharp or soft edges, erase only layer one, and manage colors with the layer editor.

Master color puck in Autodesk Sketchbook to pick and apply colors with the color wheel, eyedropper, palettes, and transparency options, while adjusting brush size and using the airbrush.

Learn to use the brush block and brush pack to adjust brush size and opacity with the increment tool, comparing dark gray and light gray color blocks to shape strokes.

Learn to use the spacebar tool in sketchbook to pan, zoom, and rotate the canvas, and employ undo and redo with ctrl z to navigate changes.

Master selection tools in digital painting by using rectangle, oval, lasso, polygonal lasso, and magic wand, with shortcuts for selecting, adding, subtracting, inverting, and deselecting selections.

Use the float fill tool to apply solid or gradient colors with gradient points and a color editor, and use the crop tool to trim the canvas in Autodesk SketchBook.

Learn to use the transform and quick transform tools in Autodesk Sketchbook to scale, distort, and rotate artwork, maintain aspect ratio with shift, and adjust selections.

learn to add a text layer in Autodesk Sketchbook, select fonts like Arial bold or Arial Black, and set white or custom colors; edit on the layer.

Explore ruler, ellipse, and French curve tools in Autodesk Sketchbook to create precise shapes. Learn to scale, rotate, move, and color these forms to design accurate geometry.

Explore perspective guides to create one-, two-, three-point and fisheye drawings, using vanishing points, horizon lines, locking points, and show-or-hide options in Autodesk Sketchbook.

Explore symmetry tools in Autodesk SketchBook, including x axis, y axis, and radial symmetry, to create mirrored drawings across sides and faces with the inking pen.

Explore steady stroke and predictive stroke to create shapes with guided lines, adjustable distance between stroke and cursor, zigzag control, and smooth outlines.

Explore how to use draw style in painting, selecting tools, colors, and applying tool properties to lines, rectangles, ovals, and polylines, then erase or smear to create shapes in Sketchbook.

Master the layer editor in Autodesk Sketchbook by managing the background and multiple layers, adjusting color, transparency, blending modes, and visibility while adding, duplicating, grouping, and importing images.

Explore the color editor in Autodesk Sketchbook, using the color wheel, eyedropper, presets, and RGB/HSL options to create, blend, and apply colors, with randomize colors and erase via transparent toggle.

Explore the copy library in Autodesk SketchBook, comparing illustration and design categories, with drag-and-drop color values into a customizable set and ready-to-use color variations for digital painting.

Explore textural essential brushes in the Autodesk Sketchbook brush library to create surface textures in digital painting, using tools like signature ring, pencil pal, soft pastels, and rough charcoals.

Explore Copic brushes in the brushes library, including Copic ink, drawing pen, and Copic Super Brush Tip, with adjustable size, density, and transparency.

Explore 18 synthetic paint brushes and a brush library, and learn how each tool blends color with the background, creates textures, and simulates water, shadows, and artwork effects.

Explore traditional brushes from the British Library in digital painting, using pencil tools, erasers, and airbrushes to create pencil-like textures with adjustable spacing, size, and opacity.

Examine the texture brushes in the brush library and compare multiple brush tools to create varied textural appearances in digital painting, using different colors, patterns, and snake-like strokes.

Explore how to use shape tools from the brush library in Autodesk Sketchbook, trying dry ink, fiber, feathery, web, sparkle, and more to create snake patterns and varied textures.

Explore how to use splatter brushes in Autodesk Sketchbook for digital painting, applying black and white splatters, adjusting brush size, and exploring options like opacity, spacing, roundness, rotation, and scaling.

Master five glow brushes in Autodesk Sketchbook, exploring glow, glow neon, glow wisp, Glow Visby, and Globe cross, adjusting color, background, and pressure to achieve varied glow effects.

Learn to use smudge tools in the Autodesk Sketchbook brush library, blending two colors with tools like smudge web brush and soft round brush.

Explore 14 designer brushes in Autodesk Sketchbook, from designer pencil to watercolor pencil and airbrush tools, learning how each brush creates shapes, strokes, and solid artwork for digital painting.

Explore artist brushes in the brushes library of Autodesk SketchBook, experimenting with art pencil, pencil medium, ink pen, salty watercolor, and blending tools to create varied appearances and snake patterns.

Explore almost 11 pastel brushes in brushes library and learn how tools like the super soft blender, triangle, and arrow apply color, decay values, and snake patterns in Autodesk Sketchbook.

Discover how colorless brushes in Autodesk SketchBook blend colors to create value. Observe colorless web, angular, soft round, soft flat, markers, and soft brush carrying color from inside to outside.

Explore how to use lagoon in Autodesk Sketchbook, manage lagoon via windows and submenu, access color editor, brushes, and interface controls, and customize full ui layouts to streamline digital painting.

Discover the primary colors—red, blue, and yellow—as pure colors that cannot be produced by mixing. Learn how their combinations create all other colors and identify secondary and tertiary colors.

Discover how secondary colors arise from mixing primary colors red, blue, and yellow, producing orange, purple, and green in digital painting, demonstrated with smudge and eyedropper tools.

Explore how tertiary colors form when you blend one primary with one secondary color, using yellow-green and red-purple as examples, and observe how smudging creates new hues in digital painting.

Learn how tint, the process of adding white to a pure color, creates light, highlights, and lifelike shading in digital painting.

Discover how tint and shad define lighting by adding white and black to pure color, using blue and mountains to show far vs near shading in digital painting.

Discover how tone is created by mixing gray with a pure color, contrast with tint and shade, and apply it to digital painting examples using orange and sketchbook tools.

set up your canvas for one point perspective using Autodesk Sketchbook, and use perspective guides to place and lock the point before starting your artwork.

Learn one-point perspective by drawing vanishing-point lines to shape buildings, mountains, water, and landscapes, then fill color while maintaining depth and clean edges.

Learn to construct houses in one-point perspective by separating buildings, forming street views, and adding doors, windows, and diagonal lines with a perspective guide.

Create a one-point perspective scene with a road, mountain, and lake using guidelines to build depth, then refine with erasing, brush adjustments, and window details.

Colorize this simple one point perspective drawing created in Autodesk Sketchbook by filling colors, adjusting the sky, houses, road, and walls with contrasting hues.

Set up your canvas for two point perspective using perspective guides in Autodesk Sketchbook, place vanishing points strategically, and begin with black fills using a sharp brush or felt pen.

Master two-point perspective by modeling a farmhouse with a wood fence, defining fence height with a vertical line, connecting the points, adding segmented wood texture, and outlining the walking paths.

Create a house in two-point perspective by laying out lines to define height, adding a farmhouse with a door, windows, and partitions, and refining with erasing.

Learn to refine a two-point perspective digital painting by erasing unwanted areas, using the erase and select tools, and preparing for color flood fill with clean lines.

Master finishing two-point perspective drawings by adding tree-like elements, refining lines, and applying grayscale and flat fills. Explore coloring techniques and editing steps in Autodesk Sketchbook.

Master three-point perspective drawing in Autodesk SketchBook by enabling three-point perspective guides, placing the three points, and drawing with black.

Learn to construct a three-point perspective building by plotting diagonal lines, defining top and side views, adding windows and a door, and colorizing the final drawing.

Colorize a three-point perspective drawing by filling areas with the flood tool, layering dark and light blues to differentiate walls, and finishing with Autodesk Sketchbook.

Set up a new 1:1 canvas in Autodesk Sketchbook, adjust width, height, and resolution in preferences, and create a new document for silhouette painting.

Create a basic silhouette landscape sketch in Autodesk Sketchbook using a dedicated basic sketch layer and felt pen tool to plan mountains, a path, and trees in one-point perspective.

Create a sky for a cloud digital painting using layers, an airbrush, and brushes to blend colors, adjust opacity, and add stars and moon.

Learn to create a background and mountain foreground in Autodesk SketchBook using layered backgrounds, rough sketches, and the ink pen tool with a dark color using a mouse.

Add and color the winding path to build a mountain view, using layers, ink pen, and brushes in Autodesk Sketchbook to create shadows and detail.

Learn to add foliage and background details in Autodesk Sketchbook by creating a background details layer, using gamma brushes, and building mountains for a cohesive silhouette landscape.

Create trees on landscape in digital painting by planning placement, building leaves, stems, and branches with brushes and ink pen; use layers to add foreground and background details.

Create a simple digital landscape by detailing foreground grasses, foliage, and shrubs using camo brush, inking pen, and feather tools in Autodesk Sketchbook, with layers and one-point perspective.

Apply final enhancements to a simple landscape in Autodesk Sketchbook by adding shrubs, adjusting tool rotation and size, applying yellow and black colors, and smudging to blend tones.

Create a new document in Autodesk SketchBook, configure canvas size via preferences, and set a square 2000x2000 pixel canvas with a one-to-one ratio at 200 dpi.

Develop a foundational digital painting workflow by creating a basic layered sketch, using a 2-pixel felt-pen brush, building sky, forest, a crashed UFO, and a boy and robot in SketchBook.

Create a sky and silhouette landscape in Autodesk Sketchbook by adding a new layer, choosing yellow tones, blocking values, smudging for clouds, and adding a sun.

Learn to create the setting sun in Autodesk Sketchbook using the ellipse or brush tool, floodfill, smudge, and airbrush to shape clouds and sky.

Plan the background, add a new layer, and paint distant and near objects with lighter and darker colors to reflect the sun in front.

Master digital painting basics by building distant trees against a grassland background, using an inking pen, camel brush, and mouse to add leaves and adjust colors.

Create a layered digital painting of a UFO crash site by building foreground and midtone layers, painting trees, brush details, and the scene using Autodesk Sketchbook.

Create a new foreground layer and start drawing trees with ink pen and brush tools. Apply camouflage colors and texture essential brushes to add leaves, branches, and ground detail.

Add foreground foliage with darker inks, shaping tree stems, branches, and leaves, then texture the ground and stones with feather and texture tools to complete the scene.

Design and compose an alien character using symmetry tools, layering, color cues in Autodesk Sketchbook, then duplicate and transform layers to place a boy character and explore composition and distance.

Learn to draw a boy character in digital painting with Autodesk Sketchbook, using a new layer and the symmetry tool from head to boots.