Paint out your line art! Plus other Sketchbook Pro painting tips (real time)

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A LOT of people ask me "How do i paint out my line art?". I thought I'd do this real time video explaining a few techniques that I use on line art to make it look more painterly.
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[@daisyfairy42]

HOLY CRAP THIS HELPED ME SO MUCH ;v; I've been trying to learn digital painting, but it's been so hard to break my workflow of nice lineart, it helps me understand the form so much better...but I think this will help me learn since I really only need to learn half of a new workflow, with rendering and such for digital painting

[@Scarlood]

Same soul bruh

[@nigelhill74]

I loved the tip about slowly reducing the lineart opacity in steps as you add shadow and light. So it is still there to guide you until you have enough information painted in to read the forms without it. Great tutorial. Thanks!

[@DigitalinDaniel]

Thanks, these are awesome tips!! I feel like this is where I'm stuck the most. I've only ever done pencil paper all my life so coming from a black/white world feels like such a hindrance.

[@CAARCRINOLAS]

I spent half my life making pencil drawings and getting really good at using pencils. But it really seems like my audience doesn't give a crap about anything black and white. Like nobody even looks at your art if it isn't in color. I guess they are but simple people...

[@kunaldutta1982]

Really glad for the video, been trying to break into painting coz I’ve always been a sketcher and all my pieces were line arts with multiply and overlay for shadows and highlights

[@crankywizardstudios1553]

I have only watched your videos for two days now but i have learned so much of the fundamentals it’s crazy. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU SO MUCH!

[@TrentKaniuga]

I don't really cover the fundamentals on my KZbin channel. But thanks.

[@KrazyFalcon]

@@TrentKaniuga I think he/she meant as in fundamentals of concept art

[@thelthrythquezada8397]

yo!!! bringing down the layer's opacity.... 🤯 game changer for me!!!!! thank you

[@jamiemorgan3649]

You know your good when your real time art looks like speed art

[@popshopgamer5755]

Loved this tutorial, great tips! I use Sketchbook Pro Mobile and draw a lot on the go on my Note 8

[@toku_moriya]

15:06 Instead of having to go in erasing parts of the layers when the background colors change to more darker colors you can try locking the transparency so all the changes stay within the boundary of the color dodge layer and avoid having to erase saving time.

[@shiroh3581]

Or clip it to a folder

[@Dash49]

Amazing video, great tips! One thing I do when erasing any extra effects like dodge and shadow on different layers in Sketchbook is to use select tool on the outside of the base sketch (with one layer select turned on) and select and delete every layer that has that effect. Saves so much time. Hopefully that’s a helpful tip for someone!

[@vaepuer2290]

soon as my new tablet comes in you KNOW im gonna do this

[@bobbyboy4496]

Cheers.. great vid . I've searched youtube for days to find some decent tutorials . Bang on point mate. look forward to trying on my note 8

[@cocotv6642]

Oh... felt great to see those great video tutorials of yours regarding sketcbook pro.., but I'm kinda sad when I noticed that a lot of those you feature doesn't or cannot be applied in mobile version. I hope you also make tutorials and demo on mobile using sketchbook pro. Still, I thank you for your videos... it inspired me to draw again. :)

[@MasterTow1994]

So it all comes back to edges, right? I like how all comes back to the fundamentals, because that's something you can work on and is (mostly) disconnected from talent :)

[@CT-uh9mk]

Trent, have you ever made a Bob Ross type painting? Where it focuses on not the details, but the big picture?

[@Asterion47]

Hey, dude! Amazing art! I'm a noob at this and, due to it's speed art, I can't realize how you blend colors. Do you use a hard edge brush for base colors and then another brush to blend them? Sorry for bothering! I like better the brush technics rather than the airbrush ones and I would like to know how to master them. Have a nice New Year!

[@Khytlol]

Personally (Using photoshop) I trace my outline with the pen tool, fill the tracing with some grey colour and then have parent layers ontop of that fill so I don't go outside it when painting and just bringing down the sketch layer opacity to like 30% and at the end delete it

[@TrentKaniuga]

That works pretty well for Photoshop. You could also use gradient maps on your gray fills and gradients to get good results faster in PS.

[@kylegraslie3997]

Great video, always love your tutorials.

[@Artsensei86]

Thank you for this video , Trent

[@90sfresh40]

NICE WORK. WISHING WE HAD A OPTION CAN CHANGE THE COLOR ON THE INTERFACE.

[@AndrewMaksym]

PLEASE DO MORE OF THESE! (sorry if the all caps bugs you, but I'm serious.)

[@bobbyboy4496]

Andrew Maksym lol I CONCUR

[@stephanieibarrientos2659]

Biggest fannn

[@christophriess5274]

Really cool video. Thanks a lot!

[@IMKatar]

That thing at 12:52, you can easily avoid it by making a layer mask. Saves a ton of time. Unless Sketchbook doesn't have that feature, in which case I wouldn't touch that software XD

[@Blueberrygoat92]

Cool man, gonna try and put it into practice right now. :)

[@AnthonyPotts]

I just got Sketchbook when it went to free. It looks like a cleaner interface than Krita. I am honestly a complete newb with respect to digital art and am just now trying to go from pencil and paper line art to digital. This tutorial (and several of your others) will help a lot. Any tips on going from scanned copy of a pencil drawing to digital line art? Other than retracing everything?

[@TrentKaniuga]

Whoa! Don't retrace it! Just set your line art layer to multiply and follow the steps in this video.

[@AnthonyPotts]

Ahh, I haven't used multiply and didn't realize that was how multiply worked, even though I've heard you say it several times on other videos...NEWB! Thank you.

[@432hecnsketch]

brrrrrrrrrrr ha salsa!!!! could listen to this intro all day! lol

[@Gafoody]

My problem is I'm trying to do a line art piece then I start shading a little then bam it looks like a desaturated painting

[@weaponlogic]

Hey Trent,Very cool tutorial man. Im curious, is there a reason you didnt use a layer mask when applying your fill lights ? Keep up the cool stuff man always a great watch.

[@pena_ink]

Hello there! Your art and work in general is such an inspiration to me and you helped me to go further from just drawing fanarts to redesign characters, thank you for spending so much time and energy into these videos!! I also have a question ..How can an artist start to work on gaming industry? Is there anyone out there who want to hire a starter artist without much experience? In my country we don’t have gaming industries and we don’t really care about art either so I’m kinda lost.. Should I make a portfolio and send it to small gaming industries? Do you have any suggestions?

[@tacticslc4805]

potato KING 8:14 Do you mean that Color dodge = add saturation? never knew that, I thought it was just "add shiny light effect"

[@TrentKaniuga]

It blasts out color saturation big time. Thats why it's great for creating core shadows.

[@marvinguzman924]

Can this be done on MacBook Pro?

[@TrentKaniuga]

I do everything on Macbook Pro. Yes

[@kpphelan-fc4sc]

I'm using a canvas and oil paints for it but not using a computer to draw the character.?

[@Windybeardgames]

Noice!

[@primordial6966]

Hey Trent, what do you think of the Glowing Pen in SketchBook?

[@TrentKaniuga]

It's a great tool! I just haven't used it much yet. I found a handful of tools that I like, and I'm sticking with them for a while. Do you you use it a lot?

[@primordial6966]

Trent Kaniuga I am currently more in a state where I try what SketchBook can do , but yeah I use it quite often however it is easy to mess things up with it so I need to find a balance on how much I should use it :)

[@david18cruz1989]

trent do you use the opacity,flow configs of the bruses? or you just use the full opaque brushes?

[@TrentKaniuga]

It depends on the brush. But yes, most all of them use pressure set to opacity, except for my oily brush.

[@david18cruz1989]

thanks for the answer trent, you're one of my favorite concept artists.mind if i make another question how much do you set the pressure sentitivity on the pen itself? i have a hard time figuring out a good setting, because i fear scratching the table or breaking the pen nib.

[@Artsensei86]

For painting effect I have been using the pencil 3 and then blending tool any recommendations on a brush on SBpro

[@pott981]

What blending tool do you use

[@NeonSupernovaUPW]

What application are you using here, Trent?

[@TrentKaniuga]

Sketchbook pro and maybe photoshop.

[@مریمکمائی-ن3ص]

While painting , when i stop in middle of painting the same flat , cuz my hand gets tired, when i wanna continue, they dont blend, like using a marker on a paper, its so annoying, would u please tell me how u deal with that ?

[@Askarcher]

is there a way to nudge/refine some of the lines kinda like how you can do in that one facetune app?

[@bent2487]

hello.i was looking for a drawing tabled and found a used 'pensketch m912a' drawing tabled. i was wondering or its a good tabled to buy for some one who is starting with digital art.

[@IMKatar]

Xp-Pen makes very good cheap tablets, their quality is almost comparable to the most expensive Wacom products. Try the Deco 01-03 series, I have a 03 and it's great, I bought it to replace my old Intuos Pro and I'm really happy with it :)

[@lova368]

Hi trent what drawing tablet that you are using?im planning to buy new tablet and imac but confused which one to choose.

[@sugarplumvodka8408]

Does sketchbook have the umm protect alpha?. And if so where can find the the button?.

[@DamagedAndroid]

If I have all my line art on one layer, I just lock that layer so that way I'm just coloring my line art. For example kzbin.info/www/bejne/bn6wZqWJhc6hfZY

[@richardroache8290]

Hi I follow you so close for a time . I want ask , how promote my art and get some job .

[@dylankars8448]

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[@loafgod]

What version of Sketchbook do you use? because mine looks super different from yours

[@tiagocoelho4110]

Kayla R. U r probably using windows 10 preset sketchbook if u r just delete it and download the version from the official site. Btw im talking about the pc version hope ur talking about that too

[@rahulfrancisco6507]

What brushes do u use?

[@archean4678]

Am I the first? I LOVE YOU TRENT !!!

[@TrentKaniuga]

youre the first!

[@JesseDraws808]

Please bring back Creed

[@frankyavery]

This character reminds me of like three Invader Zim characters shmooshed together ha.

[@charlie_number_six]

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