Recording your Drawings with QuickTime Player

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QuickTime player is a free media player that was first introduced by Apple in the early 1990s. Did you know that it can also be used to record your Mac computer screen? Here is how to do it.

Step 1. Set up your file for your drawing in your favorite art software program, like Photoshop, Corel Painter,Sketchbook Pro.

Step 2. Open QuickTime Player, Click on “File,” then “New Screen recording.”

Step 3. Another window will pop up as Screen Recording. Click on red button to begin to record.

Step 4. To capture the area you would like to show in your recording, follow instruction:“ Click on top left corner and hold down and drag to the bottom right corner” then release.

Step 5. Tap on screen to begin your recording (screen is the area you “windowed” to record).

Step 6. To stop recording, hit the very top button (see image below with red arrow)

Step 7. Your video recording will play back immediately, so when you go to close the video, you need to save, give it a name and find where you would like to save the video on your computer. You can view the recording I created by clicking on the above.

Multi-award-winning artist and author Angie Jordan has traveled the world for more than a decade, entertaining for companies and celebrities with her Live Digital Caricatures. Everyone from actress Sofia Vergara to companies like Google have hired Angie to draw for them on her digital drawing tablet, in countries such as Australia, Austria, Italy, South Korea and India.Angie, whose education is in the arts, continues to innovate. She is the world’s first iPad caricature artist and also shares her knowledge at seminars and workshops around the world. Discover her work at www.LiveDigitalCaricatures.com.

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