3 paintings. All done in Sketchbook Pro.

#22

I kind of like them all. Great style. I guess if anything Id want you to finish the clint eastwood pic. I think finishing the hair with texture and what not would really give it even a more accurate look.

#23

I love what the program allows you to do, it looks very intuative, I just wish it were available for mac as well as PC.

#24

Sketchbook Pro is available for the Mac
They just released an upgrade version and new Mac version.

Great work Bobert! I love the look of the first one best. Nice character and brush work there. I’m not to thrilled about the car because it’s pink and stretched (extreme!), but that’s just personal preference. Clint = very good likeness and nicely illustrated. Needs some work on the hair, but very minor negative on the overall work.

I like Sketchbook Pro and I’m looking forward to downloading the update and checking out the fixes. I did a review of this software for CGNetworks (anyone see it?) so I’m not going to bore you with duplicated statements.

#25

Thanks Kirt! I’m just downloading the trial version now!

#26

Hey thanks Kirt!

I’ve downloaded the new version yesterday nite. The hot keys are a nicely needed touch.

#27

Hey Digital! man, just wanted to say you totally rock with Sketchbook. I downloaded and tried it out yesterday… I have no idea how the hell you painted like that in Sketchbook Pro. My stuff came no where close

#28

1: Great
2: Needs more contrast , maybe black instead of dark green?
And maybe you should try some reflections on the car.
3: Needs more contrast again.
And too much black around his head.
If he’s angry you can show it differently.

Good work anyway :wavey:

#29

Hey, good works…

what’s a sketch pro anyway?? sorry for being an idiot …I will go and google now…

  1. nice character, I think I really like this one. beautiful feel to it. well rendered too.

  2. cars are really hard to render and I think you did really good. Even though it was your first.

  3. Now this is awsome. I absoultely love this one. CLint eastwood with style… 10/10 for this one…and I VOTE THIS ONE!!

:thumbsup:

#30

Hey Bob, did you get your tablet PC and Cintiq yet? Just curious how much nicer it is to actually sketch direct to the screen. I’ve never really adapted to drawing on a tablet while looking at the screen. I guess I’m used to seeing that line created underneath my pencil/pen.

I just downloaded the latest update and the hotkeys are a major plus! Thanks to the Alias crew for adding the Alt select for color picking (my biggest gripe of the previous version).

bumskee - Here’s a link for you … Alias Sketchbook Pro

#31

Nice works :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

#32

Hey everyone!

Thanks so much for all the feedback!

Big Boi - Hey thanks for the comment. I try my best…:stuck_out_tongue: There’s so many mind-blowing, awesome artists on this site. Looking at everyone’s work pushes me to get better to try and keep up.

Aerion/bumskee/Stargo - Thanks for the feedback!

Kirt - Yep! gottem both a couple months ago:thumbsup:
I was really surprised at how much faster my work has gotten with my new found toys! It’s like drawing on magic paper!

Especially with the new version of Sketchbook Pro. The new hot keys - ‘Alt’ for color picking, and ‘space bar’ for the hand/zoom tool makes working in Sketchbook Pro insanely fast!

I painted the “Black Samurai” and “Convertible” with the Cintiq. I did the “Clint” on my tablet PC. The only gripe I have with the tablet PC is that it’s hard to paint in brightly lit places cuz of the glare you get from laptop monitors. However with my tablet PC, it’s allowed me the freedom to do some pretty cool stuff like digital sketching OUTDOORS or/and IN THE DARK. But my favorite new hobby is digital LIFEDRAWING. VERY COOOOL!

here’s a couple of digi lifedrawings…

1 minute

1 minute

#33

yeah! great works! :bowdown:

#34

digital_bobert,
First, congrats for “freefalling weiner dog”. IMO the most original sketch for that topic. Also, I’ve always liked your avatar. Nora Jones? Dead on caricature.

Black Samurai – great figure, but I’m even more impressed by the dust cloud blur. Perfect!

Car – looks like a few different cars stretched out and stuck together. Corvette front and Cadilac in back, perhaps? Nice job.

Clint – fairly photoreal, but looks like an exaggerated squint and mop hair. Very nice. I think the original (from Rolling Stone Magazine) has a darker background at left of pic which explains the “missing ear”. Nice work.

#35

hey I was trying out the Sketchbook Pro 1.1. Do you make your own brushes? if so, what brushes do you use?

#36

ei-en - Thanks!

Ilikesoup - Thank you for the kind words.

Big Boi - I usually set one brush with low opacity (minimum & maxium around 0.5) and one with high opacity (minimum & maxium around 25 or higher).

Both brushes have brush sizes with the minimum dramatically lower than the maximum brush size (eg. min is set at 0.4, max set at 50) It gives me a lot more freedom with my brush strokes.

Then I keep the brush options window open and adjust my brushes accordingly as I go along.

Hope that helps.

Cheers,
Bobby

#37

I like how the details on the car came out… the actual picture must be huge!!!

#38

Originally posted by Kirt
[B]
I just downloaded the latest update and the hotkeys are a major plus! Thanks to the Alias crew for adding the Alt select for color picking (my biggest gripe of the previous version).

bumskee - Here’s a link for you … Alias Sketchbook Pro [/B]

you’re welcome.

We try to use feedback from customers, prospects and reviews when we are deciding what do do in the next release(s).

Bob, thanks for your kind words about SketchBook Pro, you make our product look really good :buttrock:

If anyone out there has had a chance to try SketchBook Pro and has suggestions on how it could be improved - drop me a mail or fill out a suggestion on our web site.

Cheers:beer:

Colin Smith
Product Manager
Alias SketchBook Pro

#39

Cool … an actual staffer from Alias! Welcome to CGTalk TrapperJohn. With the latest version fixes, the only thing I can think of that would make me like this software more would be for you to send me a tablet PC or Wacom Cintiq like Bob has. Heheheh :smiley:

Hey, doesn’t hurt to beg huh?
Sorry Bob … we now return this thread to it’s regularly scheduled topic. :wavey:

Nice 1 min figure sketches. I’m envious.

#40

i really love the first one, the deformations and disproportion,and though realistic mood and characterizing…
due to the car, i think its also looking like a carricature, but kewl if this is really your first painting,and last but not least ; to be honest, in comparison to the 2 others the Clint-portrait looks like done without time…
Eastwood is a very great person and to characterize him needs a bit more detail and contrast to achieve maybe a face made of stone, hope you know what i mean…:wink:

but overall great work, keep working on it!

cya
fant

#41

Hey everyone! Thank you for all the feedback!

Sorry Bob … we now return this thread to it’s regularly scheduled topic.

No no… I really don’t mind the Sketchbook talk. I really love the program and I believe that as long as people just take an hour or 2 to fiddle with Sketchbook Pro, they’ll find that it’s an extremely good program for art, digital painting and ESPECIALLY for quick sketches and rough paintings.

When I first started doodling in Sketchbook alot of people left comments saying that they didn’t like Sketchbook. Not enough functions, filters, blah blah blah but I believe that tho filters and other little Photoshop goodies are great, sometimes people go too overboard with the stuff and start depending on these functions as a crutch.

Don’t get me wrong now… there are tons and tons of people that know exactly how to use these great PS functions. I’m talking about beginner artists. Sketchbook Pro makes you use more traditional art skills which I believe makes people improve their art FUNDEMENTALS much much quicker.

I find that I’m also able to draw and paint sooooo much quicker with Sketchbook Pro than PS or Painter (eventho I’ve used PS since PS3 and painter since Painter Classic). I just set one button on my pen to {alt} for eyedropper and the other to {spacebar} for move/zoom tool and I can go from brush, move, zoom, eyedropper, and eraser all with just my pen.

I also love the brush strokes that you get. Dunno what exactly it is but it just seems so nice and soft…

Laura04 - Actually the car painting should be actual size. Sketchbook has an awesome feature that DE-PIXELIZES the image as you zoom in so you can make small details much easier!

Kirt - thanks! I LOVE digital lifedrawing! Just waiting for a newsprint sized tablet pc and I’ll be totally rockin!! hehehe…

fantasio - Thank you for the c&c. Actually the car WAS supposed to be a bit carricaturized so thanks! The Clint was a speed painting so I wanted to leave it as such. Once I retire, I’ll go back and finish it off;) but as for now… I’m going to leave it as is.

TrapperJohn - Thank you and no problem! I think you people at Alias are just great and full of FRESH THINKING. I love the custom brush options, the zoom/move tool, and the depixelizing function the most. Very innovative. I can’t wait to see what Alias comes up with next!

To conclude… I just wanted to say that I still love Photoshop and Painter but when I do any of my freelance illustrations now I always use with Sketchbook Pro for at least half the painting process because i can sketch quicker in it which allows me to put down my ideas while they’re still nice and fresh in my mind.

here’s a few more Sketchbook pics…
These 3 are just personal quick little ruff sketches and aren’t meant to look finished.

Cheers,
B