 Design Tips | Segment One 

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Welcome to DESIGN TIPS | SEGMENT ONE!

It's Duskie here, and we'll be starting out by learning about Sketchbook, a program I use for drawing, for the first few segments.

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Alright, so today we'll be creating a base.

My definition of a base in graphic designing is the background image that you use. This image was drawn digitally using the app AUTODESK SKETCHBOOK. I use the free version of this because I'm broke, but there's a premium version available for subscription too. Now I personally don't draw my bases very often because I use a laptop and it's hard to be artistic using a trackpad.

Okay, so first let's go over the panels of Sketchbook.

Here, I've circled the Brush Selection panel

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Here, I've circled the Brush Selection panel. Apologies about the terrible handwriting - yet again, I'm using a trackpad here. There aren't too many great options available to you as a free user - they won't let you download the cool new ones or anything like that - but there's a few that aren't bad. The ones I tend to use the most are the Synthetic Round Bristle Brush and the Smudge Web Brush. The bristle brush looks like this when used:

 The bristle brush looks like this when used:

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The smudge brush is used for, well, smudging. It looks really cool when used after the bristle brush:

 It looks really cool when used after the bristle brush:

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