Omfg... after years of hating to draw in this program the settings at the start actually make sketching fun and easy. Thanks man, you're doing gods work.
Wow...this tutorial is EXTREMELY easy to understand and follow. I found GIMP to be a little unorganized at first as well. You are what GIMP-noobs need my friend.
For those who are using the Windows version, to change the "Input Devices" option, click the Edit Tab. "Input Devices" should be near the bottom of the drop down menu.
This is, by far, the BEST tutorial I have seen on how to use GIMP. I now feel a like I can actually do something from scratch with just my mouse and imagination. Thank you for taking the time in your first video to go over what each tool was and showing how it worked, and giving the ONLY how to draw from scratch that I have seen after hours of searching.
This is absolute madness, is friggin outrageous, pretty much everything we need to know to start, a lot of information, need to see this a few times more to get use to all the tools, everything else comes with practice, awesome werk.
This is probably one of the best drawing tutorials I’ve ever seen it goes into everything and if I doesn’t there’s a link down below. If I had watched this video a long time ago I would have been an art genius by now😂🤣
11:39 *best part starts here* I really like how it looks so simple from just applying colors in gibberish manner and then with some tweaks it turned into a legit drawing
Thank you very much for this; I've been drawing on paper and pencil for years and finally decided to take the leap and bought a Wacom tablet and downloaded Gimp. Your tutorial is awesome! Thanks.
Thanks for all the pointers. My mate gave me a wacom but there's a device driver issue with my laptop so I gave up on that option. Given that I've just been going at with Gimp for the past seven months you've shown me how limited my approach has been. I've mainly been messing with multiple layers and overlaying sections of photographs on top of each other, messing with the opacities colour balance and contrast. Came up with some interesting images this way but I've been running out engaging ways to keep this style up. due to my lack of tablet or scanner in my new flat drawing by means of cage transformation seems to be the next step for me at the moment. I tried recreating your Mushroom, it proved a bit finicky so far. With practice comes perfect, I guess. Cheers for the lesson, you've raised my competence with the tools available that much more!
nice tutorial i know these days krita seems to be everyone's choice for digital painting/drawing but it's pretty cool how much you can still do with GIMP, especially useful if you're already using it for photo editing and kind of know your way around the interface
Awesome tutorial! I paint and sketch on paper and just got myself a drawing tablet again and want to try sketching digitally. This video had exactly the info I was needing.
This was incredibly helpful! I have skimmed through many Gimp tutorials, looking for answers to specific questions. In this and your other basic tutorial I found all the help I needed and then some, presented in a quick and logical format that even a newbie like me can follow. I really, really appreciate it! THANKS!
This is great stuff man, I'm just the guy who you refer as "those who are starting out", so thanks a lot for these. Liked, subscribed and wished I could do more. Looking forward to others Gimp tutorials by you!
I appreciate the time to explain. I found this as a good place to start. I will mostly be starting with a scanned sketch and outlining it soon as I get the tablet I had just ordered.
Haven't watched this yet, but reading the comments as it loads has encouraged me to watch it :) I'm draw in gimp to make animations, and it's slow, want to speed that up and stay fresh.
I pretty do the very last one you had and I think this is actually going to help me. I haven't really looked much into the things gimp can do that isn't pretty basic, layers is the farthest I really go. But thank you!
Great tutorials, thankyou! You go through nice and fast with just the right amount of details for me. It gives me an overview of techniques and methods I need without becoming boring. Kudos!
I'm trying to use my surface pro 3 pen in gimp and it's very very faint. I think it's pressure sensitivity is off but unlike at 6:16 in your video my gimp has no sensitivity option. I'm running windows 7 and gimp 2.8.16
I had the same issue, make sure you select the paintbrush tool tool by clicking on it USING THE PEN, i found that if you use the mouse pointer to select the tool, that tool only applies for the mouse, it is weird.....
I need assistance. I'm a windows user, I've gotten to the setting "Input Devices," but I see no brush icon. I have a Intuos tablet. There is only "core pointer".
*Facepalm* I should have known! I always used the path tool when outlining my sketch art, but I didn't think about filling it in with black and then shrink the selection! This video really helped me a lot for a beginner artist like me.
Um... when I first got this I was confused so I accidentally exited out the art supplies. When I relaunched it there was no more art supplies. Do I need to reinstall it?
For anyone finding finding difficulty filling it sketches using the colour tool, make sure on your outline sketch to use a force of 100. This ensures your line art detection is accurate and there arent any blotchy white pixels on your line art.
I have an Intuos Pro (Wacom) tablet and I was wondering if there was a way to put the canvas onto the screen of the tablet somehow. I also got rid of the tool set thing in the side of the screen and I don't know how to get it back up there.
Once I changed the tablet from Disabled to Screen. My configuration for my tablet was off. It showed my tablet curser in the middle of the screen but would draw at the top and would switch back and forth between the paintbrush and path tool. Do you know how to fix this? It works fine when I don't input the device but I want the pressure opacity.
My pen doesnt show up in the dialog it just says core pointer. im able to use the pen and all but why wont it show in the dialog. im using a windows lenovo ultra book
So It connected to my Tablet, but when I lightly put pressure on it, it doesn't make that sort of effect. I have the same one as you, but I just don't know what's wrong with this.
Hey my tablet is input to my computer and I can use it normally elsewhere, but GIMP won't recognize it. Can anyone help me? I have the Wacom Draw tablet.
I changed the input devices to screen, and my computer just crapped super hard. If it's on disable it works. I'm using a Huion drawing tab. Can somebody help? (Using windows 8)
Um as soon as i started erasing the excess coloring on the sides, sketch lines from the rough previous pencil sketch started appearing. How do i stop that?
+Ashi Sami Your pencil lines are on the layer below, right? SO when you remove something from the top, the bottom becomes visible. Do what the tutorial shows and insert a white layer between your Lineart/coloring and your background. That way you can't see the pencil lines. Either that or just delete the pencil lines, but you should wait until the end to do that so you don't get rid of your original reference point until you're sure you don't need it anymore.
but how do u flip a picture? and cut out a part of it and resize it? say for example an eye that u drew too large and need to shrink it down a little bit to match the other eye.
+CoPezz He covers that in his basic Gimp tutorial. Highly recommended. I have to go type up my notes because it takes me a long time to absorb all this, but he has a clear example of it in the other video, near the end. Scroll to the banana guy and you should be able to find it from there.
The paths thing doesn't work when I try to curve the lines? It just creates new anchors.. I've rewatched the part that you did it at least eight times and I still don't know why it isn't working..
When I first saw this video a few months back, I didnt have a tablet, so I skipped to the end... Now, after I buy one and watch this video, I`m like.... WOOOOOOW
1:45 why did he resize it? And how? What size is it? I just want it to be perfect... I don't have anything... I only have a drawing tablet, but no good softwares. Why? :(
Im using my tablet however it logs and i followed the same page set up as you did, i notice only happens in gimp. is there anyway i can get the everything synchronized ?
+DELLO cRuZ Try all the general troubleshooting methods. Delete and re-install GIMP, unplug and re-plug in your tablet, disable and re-enable the tablet in GIMP. It's only happening in GIMP, so unplugging and re-plugging it shouldn't do anything, but it never hurts to try. If it's still not working, post something in the GIMP forums or perhaps shoot customer service an email?
If you are using a mouse it doesn't allow that option if you are using a tablet it may mean you didn't install a driver that helps your computer communicate with the tablet better.
Also instead of the drawing external tablet, I have been using my laptop that is touch screen, it came with a very good stylus and it's the HP Pacillion B&O or something, it's te best tuchscreen I have used. I'm wondering if I still should get the external drawing pad. I don't have to much extra money, hence the reason I'm using Gimp, is it actually better to use external drawing tablet, around the 50 to 80 range? I admit it would be nice not having to go into tablet mode, wondering if the accuracy and overall fell is worth it?? If anyone can give some feed back it would appreciated, I also have another laptop very powerfull and built a desktop I just need to install a Linux base OS onto it, so that would probably be what I use once my desk/office/gaming room is finished, it's like small storage room currently.
hi, i have a PC and ive found the input devices section in Edit, but all it has to choose from is just 'core pointer'. so i cant get pen pressure :-( anyone know what to do?
thanks! this programme turned out to be quite close to photoshop and this drawing tutorial is EXACTLY what I am looking for to draw freehand with my Wacom tablet.
I loved this bro. Fortunately for me not too sure where you mentioned the mouse method part but someone in the comments @Erick_Alden posted a time tag so I could skip to the appropriate section. Given myself a 365 sketching & GIMP challenge to create something everyday till 14.10.18. I'm going all my creations will be ft in my videos (lifestly reality vlogs/music videos/short films/events/photography/DJing/music) and some designs on my clothes that I'm also planning on making - learning to sew and make clothing. Haha LingLingProductions now has another brand ... soon to drop. Anyway bro, back to you. Keep it up! I enjoyed the way you simply explained the method. Maybe someday we'll collab. I like your style. Blessings bro, x
Omfg... after years of hating to draw in this program the settings at the start actually make sketching fun and easy. Thanks man, you're doing gods work.
Wow...this tutorial is EXTREMELY easy to understand and follow. I found GIMP to be a little unorganized at first as well. You are what GIMP-noobs need my friend.
You're a lifesaver Sir.‼️...Even 6 years later...your content is still pertinent today. Excellent presentation my good man.
Just Excellent
For those who are using the Windows version, to change the "Input Devices" option, click the Edit Tab. "Input Devices" should be near the bottom of the drop down menu.
Thank you 😂
it onlly shows me " core pointer " tho :/ any idea?? i can draw with my pad but somehow the pressure thingy does not work for me.
same for me
did you ever figure out how to fix this?
I only have quartz pointer
This is, by far, the BEST tutorial I have seen on how to use GIMP. I now feel a like I can actually do something from scratch with just my mouse and imagination. Thank you for taking the time in your first video to go over what each tool was and showing how it worked, and giving the ONLY how to draw from scratch that I have seen after hours of searching.
You see, I know I can trust this tutorial, as he acknowledges the one true Ogrelord.
ShotgunLlama so tru
+ShotgunLlama I don't know why, I found it funny. Oh well, I should stop denying our true Ogrelord.
+ShotgunLlama I pray 2 shrek every night.
What
@@TheRedMammon true*
The mouse part is around 15:20
you have done something great
Thank you. You deserve a kiss.
YEEEESSSSS!!!!!!! THANK THE LORD AKA YOU!!!
Erick Alden i came to comments just for this. thnx man.
thank you
I literally spent 5 hours making line art a different way. Thank you for this, you've saved me a huge amount of time.
This is absolute madness, is friggin outrageous, pretty much everything we need to know to start, a lot of information, need to see this a few times more to get use to all the tools, everything else comes with practice, awesome werk.
And he included the written instructions. Such a star. Thanks for this video.
This is probably one of the best drawing tutorials I’ve ever seen it goes into everything and if I doesn’t there’s a link down below. If I had watched this video a long time ago I would have been an art genius by now😂🤣
My man was last active 6 years ago. Hope you're doing well.
11:39 *best part starts here*
I really like how it looks so simple from just applying colors in gibberish manner and then with some tweaks it turned into a legit drawing
Thank you very much for this; I've been drawing on paper and pencil for years and finally decided to take the leap and bought a Wacom tablet and downloaded Gimp. Your tutorial is awesome! Thanks.
Thanks for all the pointers. My mate gave me a wacom but there's a device driver issue with my laptop so I gave up on that option. Given that I've just been going at with Gimp for the past seven months you've shown me how limited my approach has been.
I've mainly been messing with multiple layers and overlaying sections of photographs on top of each other, messing with the opacities colour balance and contrast. Came up with some interesting images this way but I've been running out engaging ways to keep this style up.
due to my lack of tablet or scanner in my new flat drawing by means of cage transformation seems to be the next step for me at the moment. I tried recreating your Mushroom, it proved a bit finicky so far. With practice comes perfect, I guess.
Cheers for the lesson, you've raised my competence with the tools available that much more!
nice tutorial
i know these days krita seems to be everyone's choice for digital painting/drawing but it's pretty cool how much you can still do with GIMP, especially useful if you're already using it for photo editing and kind of know your way around the interface
I watched your video and began drawing NFTs almost like a pro. Thanks a million man.
Awesome tutorial!
I paint and sketch on paper and just got myself a drawing tablet again and want to try sketching digitally.
This video had exactly the info I was needing.
This was incredibly helpful! I have skimmed through many Gimp tutorials, looking for answers to specific questions. In this and your other basic tutorial I found all the help I needed and then some, presented in a quick and logical format that even a newbie like me can follow. I really, really appreciate it! THANKS!
I appreciate this video so much. I'm hard of hearing and I'm not the best learner, so finding this was the highlight of my day!
you are a saint. gotta watch this video a couple (hundred) more times to get the hang of it. tysm
This is great stuff man, I'm just the guy who you refer as "those who are starting out", so thanks a lot for these. Liked, subscribed and wished I could do more. Looking forward to others Gimp tutorials by you!
Thank you!... I have wasted so much time looking at other videos but you are the best. Thank you again
what's so cool about this is he made this like really funny so it's not really boring to watch. good job bruh!!
I appreciate the time to explain. I found this as a good place to start. I will mostly be starting with a scanned sketch and outlining it soon as I get the tablet I had just ordered.
Bro
There´s NO BETTER Tutorial of Gimp than this
100% garanteed
Thanks to the one who made those videos, I am able now to enjoy and use Gimp much more. It is much harder to teach myself alone.
This is a great tutorial. No bullshitting, just exactly what a beginner would need to know. Thanks for this resource.
One of the better tutorials out there. Thank you.
Haven't watched this yet, but reading the comments as it loads has encouraged me to watch it :)
I'm draw in gimp to make animations, and it's slow, want to speed that up and stay fresh.
I pretty do the very last one you had and I think this is actually going to help me. I haven't really looked much into the things gimp can do that isn't pretty basic, layers is the farthest I really go. But thank you!
Great tutorial, clear voice that didnt bore me to death like all of the other tutorials i have found
This tutorial is really easy to follow through even though its 5yo. Thanks!
Great tutorials, thankyou! You go through nice and fast with just the right amount of details for me. It gives me an overview of techniques and methods I need without becoming boring. Kudos!
DUDE! I don't usually comment on videos, but thank you so much for this. it's really help with the ins and outs of this software.
I don't have a tablet, but I like the blob method! I'm practicing it now! Thank you for introducing me to a few different methods! Subscribed!!
This was super helpful! Thank you so much! I've been wanting to start using the blob method for so long, but I had no idea where to even begin!
You are badass, man! Excellent tutorial!
Can someone pleeeeeeease tell me during 2:10 to 2:12 how did he move his sketch around. I can't figure it out!!!
im doing the input device but there's no paintbrust or pen... what do i do???
Great video , Recently I purchased a XP-Pen Deco 01 10x6.25 in graphic drawing tablet to use with GIMP 2.10 for windows 10. It works well .
ok I know this has been out for a year lmao but YOU'RE THE BEST HUMAN TYSM!!!
this helped me a lot, all of the other tutorials were missing vital bits of info or skipping forward way to fast for me to keep up
Just wanted to say that I think your tutorials are fantastic. Really helped me a lot. Thanks!
I'm trying to use my surface pro 3 pen in gimp and it's very very faint. I think it's pressure sensitivity is off but unlike at 6:16 in your video my gimp has no sensitivity option. I'm running windows 7 and gimp 2.8.16
I had the same issue, make sure you select the paintbrush tool tool by clicking on it USING THE PEN, i found that if you use the mouse pointer to select the tool, that tool only applies for the mouse, it is weird.....
I need assistance. I'm a windows user, I've gotten to the setting "Input Devices," but I see no brush icon. I have a Intuos tablet. There is only "core pointer".
+Addicted2Electronics same problem here
Most useful tutorial I've found so far. Thank you so much!
there is no option for my tablet under imput devices does anyone know how to fix this?
Brilliant tutorial. THANK YOU
Thanks for this tutorial! I use gimp for many years but not for drawing, only for image manipulation. But I will try it out with a grapic tablet.
*Facepalm* I should have known! I always used the path tool when outlining my sketch art, but I didn't think about filling it in with black and then shrink the selection! This video really helped me a lot for a beginner artist like me.
oooo do you have a dA?
Yup, and a Tumblr for asking questions for here: asksonicocponies.deviantart.com/
The Pegasister Roleplayer And Gamer yeea! i wanna make a da but idk what username to choose DX but when I make one i'll watch you~
Thanks! I have very few watchers.
The Pegasister Roleplayer And Gamer lol, and I'm still thinking of a username >X
Um... when I first got this I was confused so I accidentally exited out the art supplies. When I relaunched it there was no more art supplies. Do I need to reinstall it?
Great art techniques and suggestions (i'm not an artist but will practice these suggestions). Thank you for the video.
For anyone finding finding difficulty filling it sketches using the colour tool, make sure on your outline sketch to use a force of 100. This ensures your line art detection is accurate and there arent any blotchy white pixels on your line art.
Cheers, gimp felt so trash until i did this
I have an Intuos Pro (Wacom) tablet and I was wondering if there was a way to put the canvas onto the screen of the tablet somehow. I also got rid of the tool set thing in the side of the screen and I don't know how to get it back up there.
I love lineless art it looks so real!
The dynamics don't work for me :\
Once I changed the tablet from Disabled to Screen. My configuration for my tablet was off. It showed my tablet curser in the middle of the screen but would draw at the top and would switch back and forth between the paintbrush and path tool. Do you know how to fix this?
It works fine when I don't input the device but I want the pressure opacity.
I just wanted to find out how to change the size of a brush.
thank you and kind of new to GIMP and this tutorial really helped me a lot, thanks for explaining some stuff here more power
Hi! i could draw using the screen mode. It worked perfectly. But now, the brush dont get darker if i make more pressure. What hapend? thx!
Nice clean and easy to follow tutorial. Many thanks.
I will be checking out the other tutorials.
thanks a bunch for the tutorial. I have gimp and for the longest time I could not get quality looking art. I'll have to try this.
My pen doesnt show up in the dialog it just says core pointer. im able to use the pen and all but why wont it show in the dialog. im using a windows lenovo ultra book
the pressure opacity thing worked but then I apparently changed something and now it doesn't work, how do I fix this?
the paint brush isn't showing when i click on the input device setting
My paint brush is stuck on a calligraphy mode, how do you fix that?
For me, the quartz pen isn't there on input devices only the core pointer, help!
i changed the device input to screens and changed it to pressure opacity and it still wont do the lighter and darker thingy. im on windows btw
So It connected to my Tablet, but when I lightly put pressure on it, it doesn't make that sort of effect. I have the same one as you, but I just don't know what's wrong with this.
so many laptops/ tablet computers today come with pens/active pens... why no mention & only deal with mouse or wacom tablet?
Hey my tablet is input to my computer and I can use it normally elsewhere, but GIMP won't recognize it. Can anyone help me? I have the Wacom Draw tablet.
PRYMAL RAWR me too, I dunno what's wrong.
Thanks
I changed the input devices to screen, and my computer just crapped super hard. If it's on disable it works. I'm using a Huion drawing tab. Can somebody help? (Using windows 8)
Great Video. I've been using the Shifts Click Method for years haha... thank you for this 😄😄
Um as soon as i started erasing the excess coloring on the sides, sketch lines from the rough previous pencil sketch started appearing. How do i stop that?
+Ashi Sami
Your pencil lines are on the layer below, right? SO when you remove something from the top, the bottom becomes visible. Do what the tutorial shows and insert a white layer between your Lineart/coloring and your background. That way you can't see the pencil lines. Either that or just delete the pencil lines, but you should wait until the end to do that so you don't get rid of your original reference point until you're sure you don't need it anymore.
but how do u flip a picture? and cut out a part of it and resize it? say for example an eye that u drew too large and need to shrink it down a little bit to match the other eye.
+CoPezz He covers that in his basic Gimp tutorial. Highly recommended. I have to go type up my notes because it takes me a long time to absorb all this, but he has a clear example of it in the other video, near the end. Scroll to the banana guy and you should be able to find it from there.
+Morgan Reece thank you! !!! you are awesome
thank you for being slow and straight forward
The paths thing doesn't work when I try to curve the lines? It just creates new anchors.. I've rewatched the part that you did it at least eight times and I still don't know why it isn't working..
When I first saw this video a few months back, I didnt have a tablet, so I skipped to the end... Now, after I buy one and watch this video, I`m like.... WOOOOOOW
1:45 why did he resize it? And how? What size is it? I just want it to be perfect... I don't have anything... I only have a drawing tablet, but no good softwares. Why? :(
Pixelized Lahari just do the size he did for the painting section of the tutorial and zoom in a little. This is what I did and it helps with details.
umm somehow i like ''removed'' the ''layers box'' so i cannot see my layers, i think the box is called layers tool. What can i do to get it back?
Martin ManiacBeauty dockable dialogs-> layers.
please come back
i use a surface pro so i use windows except this is touch screen too... would it still work if i just used my pen?
Is there a way to manipulate lines you draw in the same way you do with the path tool?
Can you draw on gimp using an ipad pro with mac desktop?
Where is your photo editing tutorial? I can't find it. Please help. Thanks
how do i get my little ''help'' window say i wanna change the size of my drawing and its just not there!
Im using my tablet however it logs and i followed the same page set up as you did, i notice only happens in gimp. is there anyway i can get the everything synchronized ?
+DELLO cRuZ
Try all the general troubleshooting methods. Delete and re-install GIMP, unplug and re-plug in your tablet, disable and re-enable the tablet in GIMP. It's only happening in GIMP, so unplugging and re-plugging it shouldn't do anything, but it never hurts to try. If it's still not working, post something in the GIMP forums or perhaps shoot customer service an email?
I'm trying to change my dynamics but the dynamics chart thing is locked i cant change any thing on it. do u know how?
If you are using a mouse it doesn't allow that option if you are using a tablet it may mean you didn't install a driver that helps your computer communicate with the tablet better.
Help!!! My tablet wont show up as a tablet! It shows up at a mouse! (Its plugged in, and I have a Wacom Bamboo tablet.) Plz help!!!!
when will you comeback ? please make a more video about gimp
At 18:43 how did you do the shading on the mushrooms face?
I think he used the pathtool.
Probably the free selection tool.
Also instead of the drawing external tablet, I have been using my laptop that is touch screen, it came with a very good stylus and it's the HP Pacillion B&O or something, it's te best tuchscreen I have used. I'm wondering if I still should get the external drawing pad. I don't have to much extra money, hence the reason I'm using Gimp, is it actually better to use external drawing tablet, around the 50 to 80 range? I admit it would be nice not having to go into tablet mode, wondering if the accuracy and overall fell is worth it?? If anyone can give some feed back it would appreciated, I also have another laptop very powerfull and built a desktop I just need to install a Linux base OS onto it, so that would probably be what I use once my desk/office/gaming room is finished, it's like small storage room currently.
hi, i have a PC and ive found the input devices section in Edit, but all it has to choose from is just 'core pointer'. so i cant get pen pressure :-( anyone know what to do?
emptyeasel.com/2008/09/19/a-quick-start-guide-to-using-digital-drawing-tablets-in-gimp/
This should help
thanks! this programme turned out to be quite close to photoshop and this drawing tutorial is EXACTLY what I am looking for to draw freehand with my Wacom tablet.
omg seeing the wacom ctl-480 so cheap makes is awesome
good to know ur back
How do u make the tool option thing appear
Dude, you just fixed my quality problem. Have a cupcake.
I loved this bro. Fortunately for me not too sure where you mentioned the mouse method part but someone in the comments @Erick_Alden posted a time tag so I could skip to the appropriate section.
Given myself a 365 sketching & GIMP challenge to create something everyday till 14.10.18.
I'm going all my creations will be ft in my videos (lifestly reality vlogs/music videos/short films/events/photography/DJing/music) and some designs on my clothes that I'm also planning on making - learning to sew and make clothing. Haha LingLingProductions now has another brand ... soon to drop.
Anyway bro, back to you. Keep it up! I enjoyed the way you simply explained the method. Maybe someday we'll collab. I like your style.
Blessings bro, x