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Autodesk® SketchBook Pro® 6 software can help you draw, sketch, paint and express your ideas.
Designed for use with tablet PCs or digitized pen tablets (supplied with some
variations of the package), Autodesk® SketchBook® Pro drawing and painting
software is your digital sketchpad. It is easy to use with fast, reactive
drawing and productivity-enhancing tools that help you express your ideas freely
and boost production. Use it in any design process where pen and paper would
traditionally be used, including Product concept design and ideation
Illustrations, Character studies, Set and level designs, Storyboarding,
Annotation and review
A Natural Sketching Experience
SketchBook Pro is your virtual sketchbook. Designed specifically for
pen-based interaction, SketchBook Pro enables you to transform your desktop
computer, laptop, or tablet PC into a digital sketchpad. The intuitive interface
makes it easy to access a host of tools and features, including pencils,
markers, brushes, colours, guides, layers, and blending effects.
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Why Upgrade from SketchBook Pro 20xx?
Building on its versatility, quality, and streamlined user-experience,
SketchBook Pro 6 extends the workflows of SketchBook Pro 20xx software with a
wide variety of enhancements, including a more intuitive user interface,
extensive brush and palette customization, and the ability to fine-tune images
and adjust layers directly within SketchBook Pro. Existing customers are entitled to purchase the upgrade version.
A SketchBook Pro Success Story
"Autodesk SketchBook Pro is a very intuitive tool. You can pick up your
stylus and start drawing. It’s as simple as that. You do not need to go on
courses to get brilliant results out of it. You do not need to read a manual.
All you have to do is draw."
Roy Blumenthal, Visual Facilitator, Easel Empire
The Easel Empire produces high resolution original artworks in real time.
Project Summary
Easel Empire turns words into pictures, live, as people speak those words.
Roy Blumenthal, digital designer and partner of Easel Empire, illustrates
concepts being spoken by his clients and turns them into memorable full colour,
original artworks.
Clients use Easel Empire to remind people about what they discussed or learnt
during conferences and meetings.
Instead of a PowerPoint presentation, Roy illustrates the concepts being
spoken, turning them into memorable, full colour original artworks. "I press
save and the client has the image", Roy says, "so I need a software/hardware
combo that saves me time, energy, fuel and saves the client a lot of time and
money."
Roy draws on his extensive communications background to understand exactly
what his clients need to convey to an audience. He spent many years as a
heavyweight copywriter in the advertising industry and is also a trained crisis
counsellor. Once Roy has taken a detailed brief from the client, he’s ready to
set up his unique workstation at the client’s venue. His kitbag consists of a
traditional artist’s easel, onto which he places his tablet PC. This is hooked
up to a video or data projector. Now Roy is ready to make pictures.
The Challenge
When interpreting the words and descriptions of another person, a designer
has the challenge of producing an interpretation detached from their own frame
of reference and understanding. Roy interprets what people talk about in
meetings, seminars and conferences as pictures. He captures the meaning in
several different ways, drawing icons, caricatures, speech bubbles and scenes.
He uses imagery that is most appropriate to the message and audience.
His clients and audiences watch the artwork being produced right before their
eyes on a massive screen. "They’re following the journey from word to picture as
it happens", says Roy. "This offers them a huge thrill, but more than that, it
unlocks something in their brain", he goes on to say that, "they want to know
what’s going to happen next and they anticipate what I’ll be drawing, so they
are constantly engaged in what’s being presented to them."
A fast, efficient and detailed digital sketching tool is required for Roy to
create pictures at this level.
"The use of paper isn’t the biggest issue when it comes to sustainability",
Roy explains as he mentions how, if he worked on paper, he would have to take a
large piece of paper with him on a plane, rolled up to preserve it. Then he
would need to take it to a high-end production house to scan the big sheet of
paper to put it on a memory stick. And only then would it finally make its way
to the client.
"In my case, I press save, and the client has the image".
"My clients love that I work digitally! When I finish an event, all of the
pictures I’ve created are available to them on a memory stick immediately"
The Solution
"SketchBook Pro is a very intuitive tool. You can pick up your stylus and
start drawing. It’s as simple as that. You do not need to go on courses to get
brilliant results out of it. You do not need to read a manual. All you have to
do is draw", Roy explains.
Roy uses SketchBook Pro 2011 to make exceptionally fast and detailed
full-colour drawings of the things people talk about in meetings, seminars and
conferences. "When I’m keen on creating clean pictures to illustrate high-level
concepts, I use SketchBook Pro. One of the things I love about it is how
responsive it is."
Regarding sustainability, for many independent artists, the cost of natural
media is "prohibitive". This means that if artists work in oils or acrylics,
they need to buy the most expensive archive-quality paint, otherwise their
artwork will fade within a few short years. "When you’re experimenting with a
new work, you’re using those expensive materials, on a project that might not
work. It’s real material, you either paint over your mistakes or throw the
entire canvas away".
"Working digitally means that you can create your finished artwork before
ever spending a cent on materials", explains Roy.
The Result
According to Roy, the SketchBook Pro software works very fluidly with an
incredible responsiveness to pressure. "Using the stylus to draw with feels
almost like a brush and it responds beautifully", he says.
When Roy is keen on creating clean pictures to illustrate high-level
concepts, he uses SketchBook Pro. "One of the things I love about it is how
responsive it is", he explains. Roy is able to have pictures appearing on his
screen as a mirror image in whatever plane he chooses, which he claims to be
useful when drawing humans quickly. "All I do is mirror vertically and draw one
half of the form. The other half automatically follows’. He uses the simple and
intuitive layers tool for adding super-fast colour to his pictures.
"My clients love that I work digitally! When I finish an event, all of the
pictures I’ve created are available to them on a memory stick immediately", says
Roy. His clients then print his images at whatever size they choose to do so, of
which many choose A0 posters, almost the size of a door.
When working digitally, artists have access to blending modes in their
different layers, which means that they can really get to grips with shadows and
highlights without messing with the original picture. "Here’s an example. You
draw an almost-ready picture but you notice that the side of the face needs more
highlights. So you pop a new layer above the artwork, set the layer to highlight
and change the transparency down to 30%, and choose a light colour. Now dab away
at the areas you want to emphasise and your highlight appears. Don’t like it?
Erase it. Want to blur the edges? Use the blur tool or the smear tool. The same
goes for shadows. The blend tool opens a world of possibilities to artists",
says Roy.
"SketchBook Pro 2011 is significantly better than the 2010 release", claims
Roy as he speaks of how he finds the interface to be "even more user-friendly
and intuitive" than the previous version.
SketchBook Pro delivers the "feeling" of natural media. Roy claims that when
he picks up the stylus, it only takes a few seconds for him to forget that he’s
holding a stylus. "When it’s in pencil mode, it’s as if I’m holding an ACTUAL
pencil. It’s THAT responsive! Once you’ve tried SketchBook Pro, you’ll see how
potent it is".
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