![]() ![]() The technique should work just as well with any drawing program that supports layers, a web conference that supports screen-sharing, and a tablet or tablet PC that lets you draw or erase easily. and then just enough instruction to help me begin to draw my characters. first to decide I wanted to continue with the software. It was exactly what I needed to get started. Translucent white layer with parts erased This class exceeded my expectations This class is well designed to make you comfortable in mere minutes with the software.White layer, so that you can easily add layers on top of this for new drawings.Here’s how you should set up your layers, from top to bottom: Then it was time to share my screen, turn on the webcam, and give my presentation! ![]() I hid all the tools I didn’t need, and kept the layers window open on the side so that I could easily switch to another layer. That way, I could always unhide it (thus blanking out everything else I’d drawn), add a new transparent layer on top, and sketch away. Just in case I needed to go into more detail, I added another layer on top, filled it with white, and hid the layer. This meant that I could quickly remove accents or new sketches without disturbing my pre-drawn sketches. I drew on the the white layer that I gradually erased to reveal the underlying sketches. Because my Lenovo X61 tablet pen has a pen tip and an eraser tip, I could easily flip between revealing pre-drawn sketches and adding new sketches. I also wanted to be able to draw new sketches or highlight items, so I selected a red ballpoint pen as my primary brush. I selected a large eraser to make it even easier. That way, I could use an eraser to reveal the sketches below. I set the opacity of this layer to 90% so that I could see the traces of the images on the layer underneath. I created a layer on top of my "slide", and I flood-filled this layer with white. I used an idea from children’s activity books: instead of drawing, you can use the eraser to make content appear, like the way you would scratch off black paint to reveal colours. I pre-drew my one-slide talking points on a single layer so that I wouldn’t have to count on thinking, talking, and drawing all at the same time. It was much more fun and much more flexible than annotating in Microsoft Powerpoint. =) I’ll post a link to the recording when it’s up. I think I’ll do this for as many presentations as I can get away with. Autodesk offers digital artists like illustrators, designers, architects, painters, and concept artists a wide variety of fast and powerful digital creative sketching tools. I gave a presentation using Autodesk Sketchbook Pro and desktop-sharing in Lotus Live, and it worked out really well. ![]()
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