SketchBook Ideas

Anonymous · ‎01-27-2021

I would love to have Autosave on Autodesk Sketchbook. Too many times I've lost projects due to both computer problems and personal negligence. Implementing an optional autosave feature would save so many users suffering from lost time and work and wouldn't be too hard to add. I've seen another user even propose a custom timer or snooze button for the autosave feature if activated. Many programs I've used before have already solved this problem and in the artistic world it seems like a must have. The future is coming towards us rapidly and with more and more time constraints on work and personal life, we can't afford the random computer shut down cancelling out all of our progress. Even as I write this proposition I look down at the notification under the text box informing me that my words are autosaved and safe from falling into the void never to be seen again. Please consider this simple fix that would help Autodesk Sketch progress with the rest of its competitors

Anonymous · ‎11-04-2020

Before ignoring this as trollish/inappropriate please actually read it. Can we get a new sketchbook support person over in the sketchbook forum? Someone who will actually read the posts and not give a copy pasted generic response to try something that the poster has already said they did. https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/sketchbook-forum/app-keeps-crashing-on-ipad-and-won-t-open-at-all/td-p/9801251 Someone who will respond to the actual problem instead of giving instructions for something different. Someone that won't ignore a posters follow up response when the "solution" doesnt work, or after supplying support with request device/os info. https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/sketchbook-forum/sketchbook-not-loading-on-chromebook/td-p/9813553 Someone who will be honest and say something like "we know a lot of people are having this problem, we don't know how to fix it(or we don't plan to fix it) we're sorry for the inconvenience and frustration this has caused" And if you think I'm being a troll, or bitter, or that this is an inappropriate suggestion, please go to the sketchbook forum, and read through the posts there. Or just read the last 30. Over half the posts have one of these issues.

Anonymous · ‎05-19-2021

Hello, I know this has been requested before but nothing has been done about it for years. I just started using Autodesk Sketchbook since Paint Tool SAI has conked out on me. One of the things that bothers me is the lack of a hotkey for flipping the canvas horizontally. It can get tedious to manually do it with my mouse when my hand is already on the keyboard using hotkeys or redoing/undoing pen strokes. I'm also wondering if there's a way to turn off the little circle menu that pop's up when one presses the spacebar to move around on the canvas. Sometimes I miss-click and select the rotation or zoom option when all I wanted to do was move around. I really hope I get a response to this because this program seems very promising and it has very helpful features SAI never had. What's putting me down though are the problems listed here. Those are big for me when using a digital art program. Thanks!

Anonymous · ‎04-24-2020

Guys... I've been painting a lot for the past week... and I'm the kind of guy that gets carried on by the ideas and not by a goal. Sooner or later, after many, many hours of painting, I realize that the painting is not going the way I want to. If I hadn't saved multiple copies of early stages of the painting, I'm screwed! Having this Recording feature the user could (aside of recording the process) have the option to STOP the recording process to a point before the painting turned out WAY off the desired path, and create a copy from that point to continue painting without having to save many early stages files. Let's say that I've been painting for 2 hours... And the painting starts to go off after the first 1:50 hours of painting. I'd use the Recording Process function to watch my painting until that point, hit stop, and then continue my painting before it reaches the 2 hours of the paint. Am I explaining this idea correctly? It'll be a huge game changer! PS: The recording function is to AID the artists to check and save painting stages. NOT to export videos to share on social media.

Anonymous · ‎02-04-2020

I have a slight problem with imported images for the mobile app version. I want to have said image to be on a layer where its background is transparent, but the rest of the image (like a sketch or a digital image). I tried multiple times, but I can't seem to make that happen. Is there anything that I can do?

Anonymous · ‎10-23-2019

There used to be a blog located at: Landscape Architecture Rendering: A Digital Worfklow https://www.sketchbook.com/blog/landscape-architecture-rendering-tutorial-how-to/ It seems it's no longer there. Can you please bring it back or tell me where it went?

Anonymous · ‎09-26-2019

I use sketbook software on Ipad，Recently, software has become particularly slow. Copy a blank file Move a layer It takes more than five seconds to wait!😭 What are the possible causes? How to solve the problem. Thanks

Anonymous · ‎08-14-2019

Hi! Can you please tell me why all older articles from blog disappeared? I want to read them - they were awesome!!! What I can see now on updated blog is a bunch of mediocre content... It makes me sad.... Here are the copies from web archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20180216142658/https://www.sketchbook.com/blog/how-to-draw-hair-step-by-step-with-lord-gris/

Anonymous · ‎02-17-2019

I am an Art Teacher and just presented at Texas Computer Education Associations 2019 Conference in San Antonio, Texas. I presented info on School Branding, Visual Literacy, and Graphic Design as a means of developing stronger creativity skills in students. Our Website is https://www.artmediaschools.com and there are lots of examples of what we have developed at Glen Rose High School. 90% of the visuals were created in Autodesk Sketchbook. I am interested in presenting information about Sketchbook to educators, especially at EdTech conferences like TCEA. My experience as a veteran educator has shown me the strength of Sketchbook, as an entry level graphic design tool. I acknowledge that much of the world uses Photoshop for graphic design, but Photoshop is intimidating to most students because of its complexity. At my school, Photoshop is taught in the Career and Technical Education (CATE) department and those classes have just a few students who take the semester to learn basic functioning in Photoshop. I teach Art & Media Communications and my students use Sketchbook. My students are creating graphic designs within the first week, yet I find Sketchbook deep enough that my students can discover new tools for creating throughout the school year. When I presented at TCEA, I found a LOT of interest in Sketchbook, mostly to my point; students who would have never taken a Photoshop class find Sketchbook more intuitive and accessible as a tool for creative expression. I believe that I can present what we are doing with School Branding, Creativity, and Graphic Design at conferences like TCEA, do hands-on workshops about Sketchbook, and teach teachers the accessibility to creative expression that Sketchbook is fully capable of. I saw no representation of Sketchbook at TCEA at all and I feel this is a disservice to education, especially in a time when Creativity, Visual Literacy and Digital Literacy are in such need in our Educational System. Please look at our website and consider contacting me about possibilities and potential.

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Autosave Feature

New sketchbook support person

Flipping canvas hotkey on Autodesk Sketchbook?? ALSO

Add a Recording Process function on Sketchbook Desktop Version

Imported images

Video Tutorial

Very slow, delay on Ipad

Bring back old blog posts!

offer Sketchbook Presentations at Educational Conferences, especially EdTech

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