hello fellow art nerds this is a video that has been requested quite a bit since our original
medibang paint tutorial video now if you don't already know medibang paint is a free digital
art program similar to that of photoshop you can create paintings drawings or anything you
can really imagine on a canvas within your own personal device this program is getting more
and more popular by the day so now is a great time to get into it without any further ado
let's get right into it you'll need to create a free medibang account to access things like
cloud saves and more brushes however you'll need the paid version to get rid of ads and
get the expanded toolkit as well as get the ability to import reference images
opening up the app we have multiple options to start to create a new file we just click the new
canvas button right here clicking continue opens up your most recent file you've worked on and
my gallery opens up a selection of all your files so we are just going to click new canvas here and
from here you can import which is a replacement for the pc's version of open but we will click
on new canvas for the sake of this tutorial you can change all the canvas's properties such as
resolution and size and then click done when you're satisfied now this may seem a little
overwhelming at first but no worries that's what i'm here to help you with i'm on ipad mini so it
may be a little slightly different layout for you but the buttons and tools are exactly the same
let's start with the brush tool which is right at the top here with the paintbrush icon if you click
it while it's selected it brings up a menu with other types of brushes and you can customize each
one individually with the gear icon on the side of each brush name this lets you change things like
size and opacity which are fantastic options to have when drawing you can draw on the canvas like
you would with a normal pen and paper and it's even better for control when you have a stylus
if you click the more button here you get access to the correction slider which causes your brush
to make the line smoother even if your hand is unstable or shaky which i will demonstrate here
now here is the eraser tool again you can change the size correction or even give it a soft edge
the move tool which looks like the two cross arrows allows you to drag
around what you've already drawn on the specific selected layer
now the tool beside that which is the transform tool it's a little more confusing but is
incredibly useful and lets you do something that you can't do in real life with the traditional
art it allows you to scale and freely warp your art to get into the shape you want it's
kind of hard to explain to put into words so i'll demonstrate a few techniques here
the paint bucket tool is one that is used in many other programs and works the same in medibang as
those other ones you simply have this color selected and tap inside a closed shape that
you've drawn and it'll fill it in and here's a tip if you use this expand slider here you
can get rid of that awful looking white gap that is created here's another tip you can
use the target selection on the side to show the paint bucket what to fill selecting layer
will react to only the layer you've selected whereas canvas will react to the whole image
the gradient tool is similar to the fill tool except you can easily make a gradient from one
color to the next or one color to transparent as a fill and you can play around with different
styles and origins for the gradient like radial and linear and this tool is used by
dragging from a starting point to an end point to determine where the color should start and stop
the select tool is fairly self-explanatory you simply pick a shape of what the selection
box should be and drag to select a part of your drawing after selecting what you want
you can choose a variety of actions such as deleting copying pasting filling
or any other function but contained to that specific area
the magic wand tool is if you were to combine the select tool and paint bucket tool
and it automatically selects a part of your work with the same color as what you click on you can
also use the expand slider here to get rid of any small gaps that were not selected that you wanted
the select pen and select eraser tool allows users to draw and erase selections to help
refine selections to their desired shape with any of these select tools you can
also use the add or delete buttons to add or subtract your selection respectively
the eyedropper tool simply allows you to select a specific color that you've used before on a
drawing and allows you to use it in your palette again this is good if you blended two colors and
want to use the color product more but it's also a great tool for blending and shading which i'll
add a link to some blending tutorials in medibang in the description of this video
the hand tool simply allows for you to navigate around your canvas without moving the work itself
besides clicking the button on the side for it you can also drag with two fingers on the screen
to move around you can zoom in by simply pinching inwards or outwards with two fingers and rotating
the canvas is similar to zooming in and moving around by using just two fingers and a twist while
holding the screen you can also click this button which opens options to flip and rotate the canvas
the layer window looks like paper stacked on top of each other and this is the digital artist's
best friend it's basically like drawing on clear sheets of paper so you can interact with one part
of your drawing without disturbing others and you are able to order them and readjust
what someone sees on top versus what is below everything else to order layers simply click and
hold the layer you want to move and then drag it above or below where you want to place it
you can change the layer's opacity by using the slider right above the menu here
you can actually add a reference image by just going to the
add a layer button and then clicking select an image to add and here it will give you
your camera roll and you can select any image to use and just place down as a single layer
you can activate a clipping mask as a layer option as well this allows
the layer below the clipping mask to be used as a small canvas in itself
limiting where you're able to draw to what was drawn on the layer below
the protect alpha option is sort of the same thing as a clipping mask except it is used within
the same layer i like to use the protect alpha option to avoid coloring outside of the lines
or only editing a certain layer without creating another one to kind of keep track of both have
their benefits so try them out to see which one you prefer blending mode is also a layer option
that allows the layer to react differently to the ones below which is commonly used for shading
lighting or filters the most common ones i use are the multiply mode for easy shadows and the
overlay mode to harmonize or unify my colors you can also add text by simply using the text tool
indicated by the letter t at the top bar and once you write it you can edit it with the gear icon
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