
Learn to start sketching quickly in Photoshop, set up an Adobe account, install Photoshop, configure your graphics tablet, and practice with the interface, brushes, and digital sketching techniques.
Create an Adobe account, choose a monthly plan, and install Photoshop CC via Creative Cloud manager. Learn about student discounts, trial access, and options for single programs or full suite.
Explore choosing a graphics tablet for digital sketching by budget and mobility, from affordable Wakeham entry-level tablets to pro and interactive Sinti display options, including Bluetooth stylus use on iPad.
Learn to set up a Wacom graphics tablet for sketching by configuring the active device, customizing function and pin buttons, adjusting pen feel, and calibrating for accurate strokes.
Set the workspace to essentials and adjust the interface brightness. Learn tools palette and layers panel, create a document, and save as a native Photoshop file before exporting to JPEG.
Explore essential Photoshop tools for quick sketching: rectangular marquee, move tool, and the brush tool; learn the research tool, hand, and rotate tool with shortcuts V, B, space, and R.
Learn to organize digital sketches with layers—adding, deleting, and merging to keep elements editable—then customize brushes using the brush tip sheet, shape dynamics, and the transfer tab.
Create a custom brush from a black-and-white image by defining its shape. Set 100x100 px at 72 ppi with white background, then adjust spacing, dynamics, pressure jitter, and save presets.
Master basic sketching by practicing straight lines, smooth curves, and ellipses using dot-to-dot methods and axis construction to improve accuracy in digital sketching.
Master digital sketching with full-arm strokes and elbow pivots for confident, consistent lines; rotate the canvas, use reference, and learn to communicate ideas through sketches.
Learn to simplify complex images through tracing to build confident line work in Photoshop, practicing basic freehand lines, curves, and ellipses daily to improve speed and accuracy.
Block in the silhouette with primitive shapes to lock in size and proportions, then break the form into subsections and refine through multiple passes from reference.
Watch a real-time photoshop sketching session demonstrating drawing through techniques, blocking basic shapes, applying two-point perspective, and building forms from reference with layers and freehand lines.
This course will teach you how to get up to speed quickly in Adobe Photoshop as you learn fundamental digital sketching techniques. It's made with absolute beginners in mind both to sketching as well as the Photoshop software. And if you already know how to sketch and are trying to transition to Photoshop then this course is a great quickstart introduction.
Build Confidence As You Harness the Power of Digital Sketching in Photoshop
Discover Proven Methods for Improving Your Digital Sketching Abilities
Sketching is the ability to simplify an idea and communicate it by using lines on a page. When you learn how to sketch it opens up doors creatively and gives you more freedom to explore as you develop your own ideas. Whether your preparing for a career as a concept artist, a digital illustrator, or just want to explore Photoshop for your own projects digital sketching is your key to achieving these goals.
In this course I'll show you how to find your way around the Photoshop UI and then we'll walk through three practice sessions as I deliver some key advice I've learned while using Photoshop professionally in my own career. We'll start with a simple exercise using tracing techniques for developing your line work. Then we'll move on to contouring techniques as I show you how to maintain proper proportions in your sketches. Finally we'll explore some drawing through techniques as I show you how to tackle difficult subjects by simplifying them into three dimensional forms using linear perspective techniques.
Don't forget the downloadable resources!
Also included in this course is a selection of all the material covered in Photoshop, a quick printout reference sheet for the Photoshop interface and keyboard shortcuts, as well as some bonus photos you can use to hone your newly learned digital skills. At just under an hour long this course is short, to the point, and too good to pass up. So enroll today and learn how to get sketching fast!