Lazy Nezumi Pro - Take 2

Explore Lazy Nezumi Pro's brush smoothing, pressure curves, and rulers for graphics tablets across various programs like Krita and Blender.

Key Takeaways

Lazy Nezumi Pro significantly improves brush control on graphics tablets by smoothing strokes and adjusting pressure.
It works across multiple creative software, making it a flexible tool for artists.
Customizable presets and smoothing algorithms allow users to tailor the tool to their drawing style.
The program includes useful ruler tools and scripting options for enhanced precision.
Toggling the tool on and off is necessary in some programs to avoid UI issues.

What the video covers

Lazy Nezumi Pro enhances graphics tablet input by adding brush smoothing, pressure curve adjustments, and ruler tools.
The program can attach to various software windows such as Krita and Blender for versatile use.
Users can toggle the tool on and off to manage UI quirks, especially in Blender during sculpting.
Multiple presets like subtle and massive smoothing help reduce jitter and improve brush stroke quality.
Different smoothing algorithms are available, including moving average and pull string, each with customizable strength and delay.
The tool supports scripting custom setups and includes preset rulers for precise drawing assistance.
Pressure processing smooths out pressure sensitivity to avoid issues like brush stroke 'cattails'.
Additional features include pressure speed scaling and tilt rotation adjustments for brush behavior.
Lazy Nezumi Pro integrates well with creative workflows, offering simple yet powerful enhancements for digital artists.
The video demonstrates practical usage tips and personal preferences for settings to optimize drawing experience.

Chapters

What is Lazy Nezumi Pro used for?

Lazy Nezumi Pro is used to improve brush strokes on graphics tablets by adding smoothing, pressure curve adjustments, and ruler tools to various drawing programs.

Can Lazy Nezumi Pro be used with Blender?

Yes, Lazy Nezumi Pro can be attached to Blender for tasks like sculpting, but users may need to toggle it on and off due to UI quirks.

What types of smoothing does Lazy Nezumi Pro offer?

It offers several smoothing algorithms including moving average, pull string, exponential moving average, and inertia-based smoothing, each customizable for delay and strength.

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Speaker A

Hey guys, so we're just going to be playing around with Lazy Nezumi in this one, checking out some of the things it can do. Now, this program is for your graphics tablet, right? So it's going to work in a multitude of different programs where it'll add the ability to add brush smoothing or play around with the pressure curves and things like that, and also use some things like rulers, right? It's a really great little program.

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programs where it'll add the ability to add brush smoothing or play around with the pressure curves and things like that and also use some things like rulers right it's a really great little program now I truthfully don't utilize every

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Now, I truthfully don't utilize every little aspect of it, but it has some interesting features for sure, and it might be something you want to check out. So first up, you have to attach it to the window that you're in. So you file attach to window. You can see it's already attached, but you click and drag the little icon, it'll attach to Krita here in this case, or you can do Blender in the case of Blender. You can exit that once you're done. You'll have to toggle this on and off quite a bit because the UI gets a little squirrely when it's on in Blender, but it's excellent for like sculpting, for example. So you can still use it for sculpting, but you'll want to turn it on and off, right? So on/off button.

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already attached but you click and drag the little icon it'll attach to Crea here in this case or you can do blender in the case of blender you can exit that once you're done uh you'll have to toggle this on and off quite a bit

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All right, now it has a number of different presets in here, and usually I'm using subtle or massive smoothing. That's the main things there. But there's all kinds of other stuff in here you want to toy around with, you certainly can. There's like, you want to make a tree, just click and hold, it'll start making a tree for you, perhaps, right? It's kind of interesting. You can script your own little setups like that out, but there's a number in here as little examples at least. And so if you find a use for that, that's awesome. I don't know what I would do with it, but there you go. There's some rulers that are preset as well. These are all presets.

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button all right now it has a number of different presets in here and usually I'm using subtle or massive smoothing that's the main things there um but there's all kinds of other stuff in here you want to toy around with you

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So we're just going to go down to smoothie and subtle. You can see what it looks like. It's pressure processing and pressure smoothing or position smoothing, right? And it's set up like this, so it just adds a little tiny amount of smoothing to your brush strokes. That's all it's doing. So it's killing off like the cattails if you've ever... Let's see if I can even do one with my tablet. It's not too bad for him, but yeah, a lot of times when you're trying to do a brush stroke out, it just does like this little, like you might have like a cattail like that, right? So a lot of times tablets do that. This will help prevent that with the pressure processing.

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little examples at least and so if you find a use for that that's awesome I don't know what I would do with it but there you go there's some rulers that are preset as well these are all presets um so

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And then the position smoothing obviously will get rid of like jitter in your brush strokes if you ever run into that issue or you have a shaky hand, perhaps, right? So you can tweak the amount of smoothing here, and right now it's using moving average. So the more you turn it up, the more delay you get to your brush stroke, but the smoother it becomes basically. Basic idea. So if I go to smoothing massive, this is virtually the same setup. It's only it has a cursor that'll pop up basically, you can see, and it's a little bit more delayed than subtle. So that's really the only changes there. I think maybe the pressure processing is a little bit different, who knows.

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amount of smoothing to your uh brush Strokes that's all it's doing so it's killing off like The Cattails if you've ever let's see if I can even do one with my my tablet's not too bad for him but

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Now normally it's like a green color. I've already made it yellow so that way you guys can just see it better because the green can be sometimes hard to see. And so there's that. But we can tweak the values here if we wanted to make it stronger or weaker or whatever the case, and so on and so forth. We can change the type of smoothing it does as well. So we can use a pull string, for example, instead of moving average, and you can tweak the value here to whatever you want.

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prevent that with the pressure processing and then but the press the U position smoothing obviously will get rid of like Jitter in your brush Strokes if you ever run into that issue or you have a shaky hand perhaps right so you

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If you've never seen pull string before on any programs, it's something like this. You click, drag, and if you want to do like a nice curve, you could, but if you stop, you see you can change directions basically and do sharp corners, still round corners very predictably. So you can do that even in Blender. That's the craziest thing, right? And so pull string is kind of interesting. It's one you might want to utilize.

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this is virtually the same setup it's only it has um a cursor that'll pop up basically you can see and it's a little bit more delayed than subtle so that's the really the only changes there I think maybe the pressure processing is a

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Exponential moving average, very similar to this one, but it's going to feel very delayed at first. Just turn down the strength of it and you'll see it's very, very similar to what we were just using. So just keep that in mind. As far as inertia goes, I don't really care for this one, but it's based off of how fast you do things basically. I'm just going to carry like the curve around. You see like a little delay to it, and it's hard to see it, but you'll feel it when you're using it. I don't personally use it, but moving average is all I need and tweaking the values usually.

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we wanted to make it stronger or weaker or whatever the case and so on so forth we can change the type of smoothing it does as well so we can use a pulled string for example instead of moving

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I do quite a bit of. So with that out of the way, a lot of the other ones I don't even tweak or modify because it's not really necessarily a thing that I need anyway. So like pressure curve, you could turn it on, start to change some of the settings in here, or you can like auto adjust as well. So if you want to try auto adjusting it, there you go. You want to use that, use it.

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you can change directions basically and do sharp Corners still round corners very predictably so you can do that even in blender that's the craziest thing right and so pulled string is kind of interesting it's one you might want to

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There's pressure processing here if you want to turn it up or down. That's just going to be like how fast it fades in and out and how smooth it becomes. Like if let's crank it really high, you see it comes in really slow, and then yeah. So it could give you nicer results perhaps if you want to toy around with that one too.

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mind as far as inertia goes I don't really care for this one but it's based off of how fast you do things basically I'm just going to carry like the curve around you see like a little delay to it and it's hard to

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And pressure speed scaling, once again, more stuff you can tweak and fiddle with. I don't know that one at all, so I'm not going to bother explaining it. The tilt rotation one is kind of interesting. The tilt rotation here, for example, we'll see that it's on zero by default. So when I'm doing strokes like this a lot of times, and I have tilt on this brush, you see sometimes it kind of rocks back and forth at like a 90° angle. It's a little bit too much for me, too fast anyways.

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other ones I don't even tweak or modify because it's not really necessarily a thing that I need anyway so like pressure curve you could turn it on start to change some of the settings in here or you can like auto adjust as well

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You know, you can crank this thing up, and all it's going to do is smooth the, like it's almost like depending on how fast you're going, the, like the how fast it starts to tilt, it's just going to slow that down basically. That's all it's doing. So you can make it more responsive or less responsive, really quite simple on that one and also useful. I'll use that one.

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in and out and how smooth it becomes like if let's crank it really high you see it comes in really slow and then yeah so it could give you nicer results perhaps if you want to toy around with

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Other than that, we're talking about rulers, right? And so rulers you can set up here on this one, but there's presets for it obviously if you want to use those. But like there's like an ellipse ruler. I'm going to reset it, try to get it back to its default settings.

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interesting the Tilt rotation here for example we'll see that it's on Zero by default so when I'm doing Strokes like this a lot of times um and I have tilt on this brush you see sometimes it kind of rocks back and forth at like a 90°

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Strangely enough, it doesn't reset per se to its default settings. Like you have to, it kind of stays doing whatever you've changed it to, so it's a little interesting in that respect. Not like a big reset button for it. But you can see an ellipse tool, right? So you hold control. Oh, let me explain this. Alt, shift, or alt, control, and shift, or shift, control, alt, however you want to look at it, I guess. All those keys can modify what this does.

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the like the um how fast it starts to tilt it's just going to slow that down basically that's all it's doing so you can make it more responsive or less responsive really quite simple on that one and also useful I'll use

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So if I control, we get like a little user interface thing going. We could change like tick distance, but usually these control something here. Okay, so you'll see as I change tick distance, it's right there as well. So we could just grab here instead if we want to change tick distance, right? Play around with that value, get what we want going on.

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to reset it try to get it back to its default settings um strangely enough it doesn't reset per se to its default settings like you have to it's kind of stays doing whatever you've changed it to so it's a little

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Like rotation, for example, you see rotation down there. So we can rotate things and do that number. You want to just reset it, boom. All right, we want to move things around. I don't believe there's any move location stuff. So there you have, you can move like so though.

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want to look at it I guess the um all those keys can modify what this does so if I control we get like a little user interface thing going we could change like tick distance but usually these control something here okay so you'll

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You got to be careful when you're in Krita because control is your color sample sometimes. You'll go back to a gray, you don't realize it, or white, or whatever the case, whatever your background colors. And yeah, there we go.

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down there so we can rotate things and do that number you want to just reset it boom all right we want to move things around I don't believe there's any move location stuffff so there you have you can move like so

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So we can do things like this all day long. And this one will let you squish, I think. Oh, not that one. Degree, I guess, right? Will let you squish, then you can rotate kind of backwards here. It feels like, right? So you get the idea. Like we can control an ellipse basically. It gets a little bit better though. It's a little bit more to this one. So what I'm going to do, brin...

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so we can do things like this all day long and um this one will let you squish I think oh not that one um degree I guess right will let you squish then you can rotate kind of backwards here it feels

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like right so you get the idea like we can control an ellip basically it gets a little bit better though it's a little bit more to this one so what I'm going to do bring it all back out let reset it

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kind of all right and going turn on radial lines okay this is confusing because sometimes it's really hard to see your brush right like it's in the bottom right right now I wish it would only do one Edge at a

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time but I guess um if you wanted symmetry it's good to have all four wish it was an option to be honest um whatever the case but we can do our regular circle now or ellipse we can hit

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shift or tap shift and we'll actually switch to the lines going in and out now so we can actually do numbers like this too you can see we can create some pretty wild art with just this tool alone it would be an excellent way of

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just coming up with ideas for more radial type stuff right now that's the ellipse tool in a nutshell it's pretty simple and straightforward you want to switch back you just tap shift again you can keep going right all right let's move on

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to I we'll do parallel lines so parallel lines this one's interesting wherever your cursor is wherever your brush is you can see it's kind of hard to see it you hold control and you can rotate off that point and make a perfectly straight

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line now you can just go through here and make parallel lines one with the other if you wanted parallel lines in this manner anyways right it's really useful and turn the ruler off for a second because when you're using brushes

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in cre at least you can hold V and do straight lines but sometimes it's hard to get them perfectly parallel so the parallel ruler obviously is definitely going to be worthwhile and moving on we have connected lines this one's just really kind of

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strange in my opinion I don't know how I would use it exactly but like you do like a line one stroke and then you can hit shift and you can tab through the different points start middle end um so then you can go from

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somewhere else and go through there and now you can go through this one and do that same thing so it's really cool in a way I'm just not sure how I would exactly use it but it's kind of fun

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right to be able to work that way I'm going leave that up to you if you find that one useful or not isometric is super useful um if you were to unlink this for just a second type in 30 and

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-30 if you looked at my gum Road you know I had the isometric tools on there and it's always a 30 and3 and the camera and blender when you set it at a quarter angle this is the angle you want to do

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isometric drawings usually so you can line the cameras up super easy so you can actually model off of these things if you wanted to as well so isometric of course is not um like two-point perspective or onepoint perspective it's

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no perspective everything's parallel but you've seen these before people do this kind of artwork all the time where they do little interior environments and sketch them out and paint them and all that fun stuff um there is no

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perspective them usually it's just something like this anyways you put like a door refrigerator something in here and some shelving on the wall things like that super fast way of working tons of fun um as you play around with that one

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especially if you're more accurate with it you'll definitely get the hang of it it's just fun to work with anyways and you don't you know just toggling the ruler on setting it real quick and you're good to go so moving on from that one we are

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looking at the fishey lens effect of course uh I'm going to try not to go too deep into this one I'm going move it just for a second yeah fish Islands effect when you're sketching out things uh can definitely be

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interesting so maybe you're doing like an interior scene doing like a hallway you see where that's starting to go so like we can maybe knock a door in here maybe it's like a hotel or whatever so it just gives you a really

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interesting perspective basically to create whatever kind of drawings you want to create more or less and there's lots of stuff in here to change I'm not even go through it because I don't actually utilize this one really but

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um there linear perspective as well and a lot of times these things come in they're all kind of goofed up you really have to understand these values here and like which one's changing what like the Horizon tilt and all that fun stuff and

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you can see like it it's not like you can just contr Z and undo these things sometimes so you really have to um just toy around with it you might have to go back and adjust some numbers I don't

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think there is like a default uh reset button for these if there is it would have to more than likely you would have to set a preset first and then discard whatever you're doing and then it would when you load

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that preset again it would be more set up correctly so you can see mine's a mess right now first of all um but there are some interesting things in here like you can set up right you can just hold control and tap

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to grid here for example but you can see we do get perspective lines these perspective lines go out to who knows where and if we can't get to them it's really hard to adjust them right now in cre here you'll have to use

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space bar to move so that when you turn this option on uh it will when you pan with the space bar it'll move with it so you can actually get to the other points if needed which is really nice we'll turn

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that off real quick but it's um yeah it's still a little bit finicky it's a little bit weird to work with and once you start tweaking it by accident you'll have to Reign things up manually and I just get it going again you can see it's

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all over the place so it's usually not this bad I just want to mention that I've definitely geeked it up um resetting the center is not going to reset all of it obviously so yeah you can set up actual linear perspective and

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it works it's actually not too bad um cre actually has better perspective tool I'm going to talk about it here in a second we're going to go over Vanishing lines real quick so it's kind of the same idea you can see we have

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three Vanishing lines and we have um this little setup here in the middle right so we can move it around or do whatever we got to do here right okay let's reset it real quick because it's actually off somewhere over

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here right perspective lines like so why it's stuck way over here I don't know so this is our cursor that we're drawing with the other ones are the layout so it's a three-point right now vage point one two and three so

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three-point perspective uh you can tap on these hit control tap on them you can adjust these as well okay if you hit shift you can adjust the other ones so all three of them basically right it's a little bit interesting hold control tap

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back out of it and now you can see get all this going exactly the way we need it basically for a three-point perspective more or less and um could also be very useful now I'm suspecting that vanishing point

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four five and six right I'm going to take a while guess that this is going to be useful especially if you want to also maybe set up things like Shadows perhaps um or maybe just need six Vanishing points for all kinds of

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different objects and stuff that's up to you if you're going to do all that I don't use that but I don't use either of these perspective ones even though I really like like them when they work um it's just that um cre

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works better in my opinion because it saves with your K file when you save your cre file you don't you don't need those ones uh you also have a perspective ellipse tool and let's go through that real quick reset it real quick so perspective

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ellipse is actually really useful even if you're using C's perspective tool so because you can grab handles and can line things up in perspective right and then this is where it gets fun because now we have that we can hold control

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drag the middle you'll see it stays in perspective right so you can always do a perfect ellipse when needed that's the main idea matter of fact you'll see that we have like we can move the corners we can slide the edges we can do all that

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fun stuff if if we need it right um but if we hold control those change and you can see we can slide quad or slide quads or we can uh do a vp3 setup so we do the vanishing point

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setup and now look what we can do we can tweak this as well in a direction we might want this cylinder to go or if you want to turn it into a cylinder anyways so we hold control we can get

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out of the edit mode right so not only can we move it forward and backwards like this but if we hold control and grab one of these you can move it forward or backwards that way right see how that

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works you can also do that number or that number all right so really cool little tool in my opinion so if you want to make a perfect cylinder every time right just turn that ruler off use your line

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[Music] tool and there you go potentially have a perfect cylinder every time right now let's talk about creativ real quick and why it's so good let's delete all that actually okay so creus perspective or drawing tools at least or drawing guides drawing

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assistant tools what it's called assistant tool it's usually in the settings Docker but I have it the settings Docker in my toolbar up here you can configure Crea to do this so but you got to restart cre after you change

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the settings uh it has a two-point perspective it has has ellipses it has all kinds of other fun stuff very similar to what Laz isumi Pros doing but these save with your cretive file so every time you load your cretive file

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they come back exactly where they were that's the main benefit uh lazying toomi doesn't do that right two point for example you click and hold shift and click and drag and you can do this number okay and so you can set up a a

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perspective G that quick twoo perspective anyways you'll notice that um there's not really like we might be able to do other perspectives as well I just find the twoo to be the most useful so but ellipses could also maybe be

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useful to you I actually like lazy Naomi's ellipses more and the spline tools with lazy naumi I like more as well but we'll get into all this we're not going to go over all these but just a two point real quick um you can see

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when we have it selected this little handle we go up here and you'll see that we can change like the um the opacity of this change the color of it um the density of it even if we wanted to right

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we can do all that fun stuff and so now that we have that set we go to our brush tool and our brush tool is going to look like this it looks very similar right to some of that stuff Zumi was

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doing what what we can do is we can um you'll see that under your brush setting right you can snap to assistance you can come up here and toggle this on if you wanted to there's some options in here

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as well um to play around with but snap to assistant settings configure cre keyboard shortcuts look for SNAP you'll find snap to assistance I change it to S so whenever I want to use this I don't go up there anymore I just

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press s and I can now snap to my drawing assistant you see so this is a really quick fun way of coming up with seams very fast and kind of blocking them in if you would right and so you can definitely do this

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you can do potentially vehicles and stuff like this too right because it's a perspective grid and it's just useful all around sometimes it's hard to get started on the right Edge but it works for the most part so a really fun way of working um

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and then you combo it up and that's really I think the secret about lazy noomi is like you're probably not going to use all of it but it's nice to have just additional little tools that you can rely on you know like you can like

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maybe you can rely on crea's built-in stuff or maybe you can rely off a to zoom me a little bit depending on what you're trying to do or achieve or whatever right you have that balance now that if something doesn't work quite

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right and um cre that you and maybe it works better in new Zumi now you have that option you know so something in blender like the brush smoothie and blender drives me mad I got brush smoothie now on all of my sculpting

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tools or grease pencil or whatever I don't have to turn it on and blender whatsoever and I can just use Nomi instead so it's like a speed thing sometimes and um could be maybe useful to you right but yeah we could just keep

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drawing all day and just come up with the craziest scenes really fast the only problem with the drawing assistant here is that I feel like sometimes it gets snapped onto the wrong Edge um a little bit too fast too soon or whatever but

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other than that I mean it works fine you see like I'm trying to go down to the bottom right and it feels like it's drawn to left for some reason it's or down maybe it's a little bit weird

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sometimes but great for blocking in ideas okay and then that's where you would realize like you know we're using this we can press S turn the snapping off great um nothing wrong with that let's go draw an assistance real

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quick delete that you can actually hide them um you can move them uh and you can lock them even but you can also delete them as well so and then sometimes those little handles get in the way of each other if you have a

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bunch of guides going on so you can just move them around with that little um like menu looking button thing so but here's the thing there's certain things in naumi that are just easier to set up in my opinion like so for example I want

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to use the mega Crosshair up here right the mega Crosshair I like this thing actually I think it's really useful because I always lose my brush a lot and I don't like a lot of the way the cursors are displayed like I like having

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the preview of the cursor but I really like being able to find where I'm working at and U this is like a huge quality of life Improvement to my in my opinion um to be able to just set this

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on right now let not to say you can't use something like that in Creed you can set up a guide that does something similar so like you do draw assistant and we're going to use the um not infinite ruler we're going to use

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parallel ruler okay we're going to click hold shift and click click hold shift and click right so we can do things like this now when I go back to my regular brush you'll see we have more or less the mega

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Crosshair now kind of the same idea going on but see it's a little bit weird and counterintuitive to find that kind of a feature by using drawing assistance and setting up two lines in order to get that going

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right so it's just little things like that in in reality I believe lazy n Zumi was really made for to be used with Photoshop originally it's just that uh back in the day Photoshop didn't have brush smoothing it never had really great

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guides and um ability to draw and sketch and without setting up a perspective grid yourself like you would have to like sketch one out with the line tools or something and then use that as just an overlay image um to work off of right

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but when you have these kind of tools that you can just set up dynamically in a in a drawing file and it's way better so um this of course Works across multiple programs but yeah I think its whole intent originally was most mostly

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for Photoshop but it's been updated since it gets updates quite regularly um if you were to buy or purchase it it's not it's really not a bad program at all and um yeah so as far as other rulers

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go U they're really the only ones left are the beer ones so we got quadri quadratic beer quadratic all right anyways I say that right U you can hold control move it around just grab the handles otherwise and so if you ever

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need like perfect little curves you can see my other handles way back under there some reason if you ever any like perfect little curves you can do that there's some options for these things as well it's nice to turn that space bar

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option on as well so you just you see but you can uh you see like right now they're kind of going out exponentially or whatever you can make them parallel too and that should stop that from occurring right so we'll get

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this result whereas if it was off I believe it will change too much shape and they'll they'll converge back together basically right so you keep them parallel and you can straighten them out as well so let me um delete everything real quick so

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instead of it um curving back out it just goes straight after right when you have that option on you can see my stroke is way off from the line so it's acting goofy but there you go right so that's the difference

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between those two I like straightening the edges out and I like it parallels I think it works good so moving on oh they sometimes there's these little options where you can like fit it to the perspective uh ruler if you have it set

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up so just keep that in mind you can try those as well um if you set up a perspective and so here's another one of course where we're looking at um the handles here are basically you can rotate them and you can scale them

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as well like move them in and out so it's a little hard to see that effect there I think but like you rotate it and you want it to scale out we can do like some crazy curves like

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that could be really useful to you perhaps if you just want to try to You Know sketch out ideas and Designs real fast and you want a little bit more accuracy these kinds of tools will save your life right I personally really like

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the simple one I think it works out really well so whenever you're trying to create corners on something and you got to have have them parallel obviously that's going to be way better and then you want to switch to whatever else you

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um might want to use like the ellipse turn off the radial lines I don't really use that too much but like I can draw a perfect circle somewhere inside of here right and maybe I want to lock it so I

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always know that size so I can move it again later position it where I need it turn it off hold V and do it back down right you see the pressure curve it does influence some of this stuff a

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little bit too much sometimes you got to be very careful with how you do curves sometimes C is pressure sensitive of as you hold V and do a line so like if we do heavy light heavy you see you can do stuff like that

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if you didn't know that now um yeah that's pretty much lazy to zoom in a nutshell guys I mean it's it's really simple and straightforward I use it mostly for just simple brush smoothing and some of those guides the

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ellipse guide um the bezier one two of my favorites for sure um and an isometric as well I think go a long way but for the most part you can see if I toggle it on and off like that that's

Speaker A

what you're going to want to do for blender I'm using the shortcuts that I've set up um massive subtle toggle on toggle off by hitting the you know key twice basically so I'm hitting F1 twice right now and

Speaker A

um that's it just you know turn it on if you need it if you want to stay sketchy just turn it off and just do some sketching turn it on if you want things a little bit smoother turn it to massive

Speaker A

if you want to me it more smooth maybe it's not smooth enough yet so you can just um crank the value up you can do like very purposeful line arts if you wanted to right so yeah not everybody's Hardware

Speaker A

is going to of course you know be as accurate as possible depends on what kind of tablets you're using and whatnot and if you ever run into accuracy issues whether it's jittering and it's just looking kind of bad overall you're not

Speaker A

getting the results that you want out of your uh drawing abilities use something like lazy naumi or any of the built-in brush smothing even uh don't be afraid of using tools to get the job done we are not doing necessarily um traditional

Speaker A

art here it's not necessarily about being the best fine artist you're doing digital art and even fine artists they'll use rulers and uh you know when guys are doing designs for vehicles and stuff like that they're measuring things

Speaker A

too and using compes and stuff like that if they're just sketching them out perhaps right not always the case but a lot of times they are at some point going to start doing that kind of stuff when designing and doing um extremely

Speaker A

detailed art pieces anyways I going start thinking about stuff like that so but the trick I think is that when you think of traditional you're using a pencil and paper most people don't really think about it but like your pencil like you

Speaker A

have the paper and your pencil is dug into the surface of it right that is sinks into the surface and like the surface bends down and that's how you get those little drawing marks in your paper right if you use the

Speaker A

Eraser you'll still see your drawing sometimes um to me that amount of texture there or that amount of um like how much that lead sinks into the the surface of the paper you don't get that on a tablet really like the tablets have

Speaker A

texture sure has a little bit of grit to it but it's not the same as drawing on paper right and so it's it's almost like that amount of friction that just little bit of force is almost going to force

Speaker A

you to have smoother lines because you have to drag against it right like you're dragging all the way through it and to me that's what this moving average really is that's what it reminds me of anyways right that's just what it

Speaker A

feels like so if you don't see the cursors and you sketch with it and it's fairly responsive like you don't have it too high it does feel very natural okay so I just wanted to explain why some people say that lazy isumi feels more

Speaker A

natural that that's what's probably occurring there what's going on uh on top of that though um there is there are should I say uh paintings that are made with pool strings right and so not that you're going to replicate that process

Speaker A

in digital but you know pull strings are a real thing in Fine Art even and so you want to keep that in mind but when you're using something like a liner brush as well um when you're doing acrylic painting or oil painting or

Speaker A

whatever a liner brush if you don't know what they look like they look something like let me try to start that over I got hung over something okay so a liner brush looks something like this all right it's like a you know you got your

Speaker A

typical paintbrush kind of head right but it's just hairs that are really thin like this okay and so when you use this thing on paper it usually does a number like this right like it's very thin and to me

Speaker A

that's that directional movement like it's moving in uh this direction right it's just dragging behind it to me that's lazy mouse in a nut nutshell like if youve ever used a program and they had lazy Mouse it's very similar to

Speaker A

moving average or pulled string um but it's it's basically this right here right like that's what that feels like all right so if you're going to do calligraphy you know are you going to necessarily do everything um with like a

Speaker A

number like a ballpoint pin like or a pencil like you could but a lot of people like to use those really long um brush tips like that so it allows you to kind of like if you push it down further

Speaker A

it'll eventually create a thicker line weight but at the very tip here it'll be a very small line weight right so it'll be just like a little talking about like the difference being being like this right you can start to make it thicker

Speaker A

anyways so traditional techniques you know you can't you're not like they're not replicated in in the drawing or Graphics tablet right not usually anyways not much anyways except for like maybe like super sharp drawing with like a super sharp pencil even the Tilt

Speaker A

doesn't feel right so a lot of times it just feels a little bit off that's what that delay replicates though right that's really what it comes down to in my opinion and this is why if a lot of people really like this program

Speaker A

still to this day like even though you might have drawing assistance you might have brush smoothing already and other other programs and some of that brush smoothing feels very similar to this whatever their algorithm is it does feel

Speaker A

very natural and so just keep that in mind and like you know you have pressure control as well now so you can tweak that and um top it all off don't forget to modify your fall off on your pin in

Speaker A

your driver settings for your graphics tablet as well so if you want a smoother curve going up like that you know instead of having a linear amount of strength because I that's what I do personally I set it to

Speaker A

something more like this on my pin in general so every program is going to behave that way it just feels way more natural and more sensitive in my opinion doing that but so anyways yeah that's leing to zoom

Speaker A

me in the nutshell guys I hope you enjoyed I'll check you out in the next one all right take care

Topics:Lazy Nezumi Probrush smoothinggraphics tabletpressure curvesrulersdigital art toolsKritaBlenderpressure sensitivitydrawing software

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