![]() In fact I fell in love with it that much that I thought, swell, seeing as its been a while since I bought both Maya and Mudbox off these Autodesk boys maybe it was about time I parted with a little cash for this great little, simple programme. So I downloaded a trial of Sketchbook Pro (never used it before, but heard great things about it) and fell in love with its simplisty and the fact that it did exactly the job I wanted. Although, Photoshop is a little demanding for the little critter so I set out to find another programme more suitable. It’s great, you can sit on the train, put the PC on the little pull down table in front of you and sketch with your Wacom on your knee, great stuff. is a reference picture, here a snapshot of Sachac sketchnote that I was copying.OK, to make this rant a little easier to follow for those that want the back story read the conveniently labelled part 1 and part 2, those that want to cut the crap and get right to the point head straight for part 2…Īlright, so recently I bought a one of these little netbook PCs, great little job, really compact, take it everywhere along with my A5 Wacom. I also quite like the possibility to have “post -it ” like reference at hand ( even on the Workbench if desired): ![]() Less distraction, and the choices made at preparation time could simply just be used. The same in Workbench mode: all is gone but my selection of pens. In the following, here is the “normal” interface : Colors can be pre-assigned, this is a big plus for me, no more other fiddling than changing the “pens” with one click during action time. And So, I prepared 4 “Pens”, one black to write, one orange to doodle icons and mini sketch, One Large BoardMarker for Titles, and one airbrush for light shadow. The Workbench is a (new) minimalist interface, where everything disappears, except the few things you want to keep at hand. However, I settled for ArtRage 4, mainly for one reason : The “Workbench Mode”. I fiddled with SketchbookPro for about 2 weeks, and this is quite good. I looked at the two contenders on the market, i.e. I master the “interface” of my two pens and moleskin for about 50 years now, this was going to be a tough challenge to make it as fluent. The other problem was too much interface fiddling when you have to sketchnote real time in a meeting or conference. not a tablet PC / touch screen), for a beginner like me. I could then work at a much higher zoom level, which is easier when using a wacom tablet ( i.e. This layer could easily be dimmed when working, and removed when publishing. Plus I added another Layer for the framework, where zones can be pre alloted, and which helps getting bearings when zooming and moving around. The solution to this last point was to add a grid on a layer, which gave me a sense of the scale at a given point. not I could not put enough stuff on a A4 ( less than on my A5 moleskine). My digital sketch were far too big on the screen i.e.The interface was too much in the way ( much more than a a pen and a moleskine ) ( as I do not know how to sketch, I need not a lot to side track me).Thanks to the help of Sachac, I made the switch, when looking at a video of how she was using Sketchbook Pro. I had a problem to go Digital for my #sketchnotes.
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