Hello hello my fellow art nerds! My name is Jessie and this is a step-by-step
tutorial for all of the basic tools and functions to start
making digital art using the free program
MediBang Paint Pro.
Here at Winged Canvas, I teach both
cartooning and anime and digital art but for both classes, I use digital means to
teach the majority of the time. MediBang is a great tool for beginners.
It has a lot of similar functions to more advanced programs
and you can create and download custom brushes and the default brushes
themselves handle really really nicely! If you haven't
downloaded MediBang Paint Pro yet, pause the video and download it first so
you can follow along :) Now without further ado,
let's get arting. Here it already says -- we go to file > new, to create a
new works -- let me do that. The only things you really need to pay
attention to are your width and your length, change the pixel size
there and you should be good. Now the very first thing that I want to
talk about is the brush tool, that's the very first tool up at the top here -- up at
the left -- looks like a little paintbrush. With this
brush pen, pay attention to these two little
windows on here. I'll switch to the pen tool.
You'll see all of these different options for brushes that you can use.
Feel free to play around with them, see which ones you like, see which
ones you don't. Right here is your slider to change how
big your pen is. You can see it getting bigger and smaller
in the center of the canvas here so I'm going to
keep it at maybe 21 -- there 20. And this over here is your opacity to how
opaque it is. Right here I have it at 100% and right now I have it at 50%.
You can layer them as well when they are at low opacity. I turn my opacity
back up and up here at the top you can see this
little thing up here that says "Correction"
Let me change mine to 27 -- actually keep it at zero.
And I'll draw a straight line. If i draw a straight line with no correction,
you can see that it's got -- actually that's not bad -- but you can see that it
has some kind of shakiness to it. If I turn up my
correction, let's go to 27 just to exaggerate it a little bit.
It's kind of going off to the side there.. You can see the difference between the
first line and the second line. If I try to move a little bit
faster, you can see that my brush lags a little
bit and what that does is it makes the brush
a little bit smoother. So this is what the brush would look like with
correction turn on, this is the brush with the correction turned off. It
lags it, it makes a little bit slower and your brush is a lot smoother.
Generally you don't want your correction to be above 20
or else it gets kind of finicky and not that great and whatever your correction
is up here, it will also affect the next tool we're
talking about which is the eraser. Let me just draw in something
quickly. Your eraser tool, which is a tool right below your brush,
just as it says, erases. You know whatever you have there, change
the size the same place, change the opacity in the same place,
but the difference is with the eraser there are only two different types of
erasers here. All of these different types of pens
will not affect the eraser tool but you can also put your correction on
with your eraser. The next tool that we're going to talk
about is the move tool which is this little -- looks like
almost like a north-east-south-west, looks like a compass.
Selecting that tool is great because say if I drew this curve a little bit too
high. Oh man I don't want it to be that high
up on the canvas, so let's just move him a little bit using the move
tool -- whatever is on that layer, you will be able to move it anywhere on
the canvas that you want. You can even move it off the canvas a little bit if
you so desire. But see if I drew this Kirby too small,
I'm like "oh man I want to make him bigger" --
there is no actual button for it so what you have to do is on your keyboard you
hit CTRL + T, now you can make him bigger or smaller.
Holding CTRL will allow you to turn on free transform temporarily.
Maybe turn it back off afterwards. Holding shift will allow you to use
these little anchors to your wheels, so say if you want to
make them taller, shorter, you know whatever, using
little anchors will be what you do so let's cancel that for a second.
The next tool I'm going to talk about is the paint bucket. It looks like a little
bucket of paint. Pretty simple. I'm going to skip ahead
and make a new layer just to do this a little bit. What you can do
with the paint bucket tool, exactly what it sounds like,
click on different areas and it'll fill in the color for you.
If I kind of zoom in here, you'll notice that it leaves a little bit
of a white residue around everything which is not what you want. You don't
want to do that. So what you can do is you can turn up
your tolerance. You got to turn it up pretty high to get rid of the white
areas and click and you'll notice now all those little white bits
are no longer there which is what you want generally.
Right now I have it set to reference the canvas. If I had it set to reference
the layer, while I didn't have anything colored in,
it wouldn't actually read the line art that I've already
drawn in. So say if I wanted to fill him in pink
and I have it set to referencing the layer, it'll colour in that whole layer
instead. Now even though I'm on a different layer,
it'll read the other layers that I've already created.
The next tool that's pretty simple, that we will try to use over here is the
gradient tool. It will read off of
your color picker that is up here. It'll specifically read off of these two
little boxes. Now say if I wanted to color in the
background -- this kind of vapor-wavy looking thing..
I can have this square selected.
Select this blue, click on the square that's below it,
it'll switch it to the front. You can click on either square to switch
whichever one is in the front.
Then you can just click and drag, and that'll make your gradient for you.
He's kind of in space. There we go.. kind of cute :)
Alright, the next tools that we're gonna have are all these
different select tools down here. There's five of them in total.
This first one that is over here is your general select tool. You can change
what shape it is. You'll always start off with the default
of the rectangle so you can automatically make
rectangles where you can select things and then move them around.
Now I have this whole square section moved around.
Oof -- that kind of messed up everything but I have that selected.. You can change the
shape of your select tool as well. You can change it to an ellipse so
you can make a circle or you can change it to a polygon
which then would mean that you're creating a bunch of edges.
Double-click at your final bit to finish the shape.
The next select tool that you can use is the lasso. The lasso is just
kind of like drawing in whatever shape you want to.
Drawing in whatever shape you wanted to create.
Just like that but you gotta do it all in one go and if you wanted to deselect,
you can hit CTRL + D and that deselects the entire thing.
Now this one over here, this is the magic wand tool. The magic wand tool is a lot
of fun :) I'm going to set it to reference the
layer. Same deal with the paint bucket, it'll only reference whatever layer
you have selected off to the side. The magic wand will select
everything outside of what you have already selected.
Outside of everything that you click. Say if I want to select all these inner
line art here, I'd set my expand to two. Now let me change it back to zero
just to show you what it does. If I don't have it set to two,
you'll see that it selects right on the line art there if I really zoom in.
It selects right on but it's a little bit outside the line art which is not what
you want. You're gonna have to change your
expand. I usually have it set to two. Let me deselect this
and select once more.You'll see now the selection is a little bit
inside the line work which is what you want and then if you wanted to inverse
it, you can hit CTRL + shift on your
keyboard and now the only things that are
selected are inside of your illustrations -- line art. Say if you
wanted to just fill in an entire thing, paint bucket set to referencing the
layer, just paint bucket in a single in color. Now you have a
really easy flat. Over here below your magic wand. This
is called your select pen. You can change the size of it if you'd
like. I change mine to pretty bright -- pretty big. Let's hide these two layers
real quick. Using the select pen, when you start drawing, you'll notice that
it kind of gives this
kind of translucent red
color. Just colour in wherever you want. This is a really really accurate tool,
it's very nice, works with all of your brush settings so
whatever brush you have set, your select tool will do that. Right below
is your erase. If your eraser is your select
pen.
I kind of erase a little bit outside of his lines here. Let me just erase
a little bit of the red selection. If you have something that is colored in red,
you might not be able to see it that well, so you're going to have to turn the opacity
down to that layer but I'll get to that soon
and then see if I'm happy with whatever I've selected here.
I can switch to something like the brush tool and now whatever I've colored in
is now a selection. I could switch back to the select pen
and maybe draw in something else. Go back to the brush tool and now that's
selected too. You can go back and forth between them as much as you want to make
adjustments and whatnot. The only way to get rid of all of
this and reset from the start, you CTRL+ D and now you've deselected
everything and the select pen has reset as well. The
last two that are on the left side over here that I want to talk about are the
eyedropper tool. Say if I really like this kind of in
between color here. I'm like "oh man! I really like this kind of purpley thing
that's happening there" so if you pay attention --
let me switch this actually back to a white real quick -- if you pay attention
to the top there, up to the top left, you'll notice that
wherever I click
on the canvas with the eyedropper tool selected,
it picks up whatever range of colors I decide to click on. It'll pick it
up and then that color is now
selected and I can draw with it which is nice.
The final tool that is on the left that I want to talk about
is the hand tool which is basically just moving the entire canvas freely instead
of having to use these little bars on the sides. You can use the
hand tool which is also a shortcut. The shortcut is
with space. You just hold down the space bar
and your hand tool will be there as well. Let's move on to the right over here so
if we look at all the tools that are over on the right,
up here is your navigator window. The ones I want to talk about is the zoom in - zoom out:
these three little tools over here. Zooming out is with the magnifying glass.
It looks like a little minus sign. Zooming in, magnifying glass + a little
plus sign. Then fitting the screen is the one
directly in the middle so your canvas will just fit right on the screen.
That's a little bit easier to use. And you got some rotates over here
which you can use as much as you want. Now I've already jumped the gun and
created three different layers here. Different types of layers that you can
do. Now with a layer you can double click it
and a little window will pop up and that's where you can change the name of
them. I always say to change the names of your
layers, create your own shorthand, and it'll help a ton. Say I wanted to
shade a little bit, creating a new layer is you clicking
this little button down here. That'll create a new layer. You double
click it to change the name.
What I'm going to do first is I'm going to show you how to use a clipping mask.
Now this little button in the middle here it says clipping.
Click on that and you'll see that the layer kind of moves in a little bit.
Now it's clipped to this bottom layer over here.
This colour layer I wanted to colour in some shadows and just do these.
My own colour picking abilities.. Now I can't colour outside the lines
inside of this layer. I can't color outside of where I've already colored in
based off of the layer that it's clipped to
which is really really nice. I'm stuck colouring inside of here
which is what I want because we don't want to color outside the lines.
And because it's a different layer, your
original color layer is unaffected and I can also hide this layer, this
little white dot over here is hiding the layer -- turn it on and off.
That'll hide the layer, turn it back on,
but because it's also clipped, if I hide this colour layer,
the shadow layer up top is also gone as well.
Let's say if I wanted to affect just the layer itself, I didn't want to add any
clipping layers whatsoever, what I can do instead is click this
button that says "protect alpha" Now protect alpha locks where you've
already coloured and it'll be on the same layer. Let's say if I wanted
to color in Kirby's lines a little bit,
make them a different color. Turn down the correction.. It's so high.
There we go. Say if I wanted to colour in Kirby's
lines a little bit.
I can't color outside the lines because protect alpha is turned on.
This other thing that's up here -- these blending mode things, if i
wanted to change the colour, the overall piece, I want to give
it this orange hue -- a nice aesthetic. Now I'm taking the paint bucket tool.
Turning this all into orange which looks kind of bad at first -- looks
like I've ruined everything but I'm going to change this layer name to
overlay or over. The blending mode right now is at
normal. I'm going to change this to overlay.
You can see what it's done. I'm turning down the opacity, that's what
this little slider is. So turning down how opaque it is.
What it's done is it's giving a little more colour
information to the piece, to everything underneath this layer and
of course you can change different layer styles -- OOH, that's nice
actually -- turn it to multiply so now it's a multiply layer and
multiply layers are what a lot of people do if they want to do some kind of
shading. Of course you can stack these layers
as well. Say if I wanted another multiply layer, this time I'm
gonna do a pink one again. Change it to multiply,
turn down the opacity. Of course you can switch what order they're in as well.
They all add these different kinds of layers of color which are really really
nice. You can use them for shading, you can use them for just
general aesthetics. A lot of people who are aesthetic artists like to use
overlays. A lot of orange and pink ones and purple ones.
There's a lot of layers in here -- this is actually not that many
compared to what other people use, but say if I want to have
Kirby himself -- I want to move the whole thing because
I can only select all these layers. Every once in a while, I'm gonna end up
moving one at a time and that's not what you want yours.
All right so let's create the folder first and then select
this. A folder is down here, looks like a folder. Hold
shift, select all three of these layers, click and drag them into the folder,
rename it "Kirb" and now I can hide Kirby himself
and I can move his entire body. And with that, that concludes this MediBang
Paint Pro basics tutorial. Digital art is far better for the environment and saves
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