In this first Lesson, you will get a tour through Steve's Photoshop setup, his process for collecting and organizing references, and finally his style for sketching graphic thumbnails. These most basic sketches will only use two values: black and white. The goal is to create this preliminary content as quickly as possible, setting the stage for future artwork later in the Course with maximum efficiency.
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Tim Rice 5 months ago
Painting thumbnails is really hard! I'm learning to use my wacom while learning your brushes and also learning the technique. My output is garbage so far, but i'm growing a lot!
Daniel Garelik 2 years ago
I notice Steve collects refs on his pc. I have some stuff at my harddrive, but my pinterest holds some of the information as well. Is it important to get a better overview? Also can one somehow organize everything using like "hastags" or labels, mb something like a plugin to explorer (if such thing exists)
Steve Yasin 2 years ago
Hey guys, dumb question for Lesson 1 homework. He mentions get Main Ref (clear), R Ref ( ?) , and Texture Ref (clear). What is often "R Ref" ?
Patryk Jędraszek 1 year ago
Hey, its "ART" ref :D
Jaren Dorman 2 years ago
Maybe this has been answered somewhere but are Stevens brushes available anywhere for the course? I cannot find them.
Romain D'Escrienne 2 years ago
In the first download, for part 01, there are the brushes he uses.
It's in the "Concept Art Hacks - Lesson 1_6" zip, in the "04" forlder, there is the "Swang Brushes - Learn Squared.abr" file.
James Smith 2 years ago
So grateful for this course so far. Two questions: 1. Would using View>Flip Horizontal work as a better alternative to Flip Canvas; 2. How was the create color dodge layer shortcut set up? As an action?
Romain D'Escrienne 2 years ago
I like the flip view, which is way faster than the flip canvas : if you start working on large files with a lot of layers this is still instantaneous. Though it is good to know this is just a visual trick, not an actual flip : so you brushstrokes, custom shapes and so on will apply as if the canvas was not flipped.
Magnus Wolff 2 years ago
Basic question : How do you rotate your brushes while drawing without reaching for the settings panel? Any suggestions for a Intuos Pro user?
Looking forward to the rest of this!
Eric Gris 2 years ago
Hey Magnus! You can do it by going into your brush settings > shape dynamics > Angle and change the control to rotation. The other way is to get a wacom art pen, it has a Rotation: 0 - 360°. Hope it helped.
Karine Villette 2 years ago
Thank you Learnsquared and Steve for this great course! Lots of informations and insights, I'm enjoying this class a lot so far, can't wait to get started on assignments.
David Jones 2 years ago
Loving the course so far! One thing though, I can't seem to find the download for the brushes discussed in the graphic brushes lesson?
Jehan Sandra Salem 2 years ago
When you hit the download files option it will download a zip folder to your computer. Inside the folder, there is a .abr file that you can install in your photoshop version (depending on the version you have there are a couple of ways to install it. For cc you just hit the menu of the brushes panel on the top right corner, inside listed there is an install brush option). I know you did not have that option when the course started but might be useful for new people when they come to read these questions and replies.
Marek Mazur 2 years ago
Same question here, would be cool to try those brushes out
Andrew Hawryluk 2 years ago staff
Hey David, we're working on that! Just need to get the files from Steve real quick.