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October 25, 2022 11 Comments Digital Art

How to Get the Copic Library in Sketchbook Pro 9.0

After Sketchbook was bought by a different company, it could no longer use the color swatches known as the Copic Library for legal reasons. However, now that the newest update allows us to create our own Color Palettes, it’s possible to bring them back! How to Get the Copic Library Back in Sketchbook Pro Step…

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October 25, 2022 0 Comments Digital Art

How to Use Custom Colors in Sketchbook Pro 9.0

The newest version of Sketchbook Pro comes with a completely new panel called Custom Colors. At first it may seem just like a window for color swatches—but it’s far more than that! How to Use the Color Sets in Sketchbook Pro The Custom Colors window has two tabs: Palettes and Images. The Palettes tab (1)…

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October 25, 2022 0 Comments Digital Art

How to Use the Color Editor in Sketchbook Pro 9.0

The newest update to Sketchbook Pro has brought some improvements to the Color Editor to make it more convenient to use. However, this has also made the Color Editor panel look more complicated at first glance, so here’s a quick guide on how to use it. Current and Previous Colors Let’s start from the top….

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October 25, 2022 2 Comments Digital Art

How to Use a Clipping Mask in Sketchbook Pro 9.0

Yes, that’s right—the newest Sketchbook Pro update gave us the long awaited feature, the Clipping Mask/Alpha Mask! Let me quickly show you how to use it and why it should become an essential part of your workflow from now on. How to Create a Clipping Mask in Sketchbook Pro First of all, if you’re familiar…

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October 12, 2022 1 Comment Animal Anatomy, How to Draw

100 Poses Challenge: Lionesses

They say that practice makes perfect, but how to practice drawing? In most cases it’s not that simple, but there is one kind of exercise that you can do almost without thinking. It’s easy, it’s quick, and it’s perfect if you want to practice drawing everyday, but have little time to do so. I’m talking…

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August 26, 2022 1 Comment Animal Anatomy, News

Learn Animal Anatomy With Me!

Long story short, I’ve launched a Patreon page! But this isn’t just a page that you can pledge to to support me in creating art—it’s something completely different. I’m going to do a cat écorché—cover a plastic cat skeleton with all the muscles, one by one. I’m going to create plenty of notes for each…

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July 2, 2022 0 Comments How to Draw

11 Simple Drawing Exercises to Train Your 3D Intuition

Drawing is largely an intuitive process. Artists tend to not think about the position, shape, and angle of every line—instead, they test what “feels” right or wrong. And while it is possible to learn a lot of things about drawing by reading articles and watching videos, some of them only start to make sense once…

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June 11, 2022 2 Comments How to Draw

How to Start a Drawing

When you think of a thing to draw, in your imagination it’s a real, 3D object. But you can’t draw a real, 3D object—you can only draw lines. So your job, as an artist, is to convert that object into a set of lines. Some artists do it this way: they draw one line, then…

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May 28, 2022 0 Comments How to Draw

How to Draw Organic 3D Shapes by Hand

Most artists learn how to draw 3D forms through the process of trial and error, and after a while their intuition tells them what to do. They make plenty of decisions without even being aware they make them. Things just “feel right” or “feel wrong” to them. In the past I’ve made multiple attempts to…

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