![]() ![]() There’s several methods of doing so, each with varying qualities. You wouldn’t really want it to either, how else would you make convincing highlights? So what we first need to do to colour in our drawing is prepare our lineart. This is because the white isn’t transparent. Put the new layer underneath the layer containing the lineart(drag and drop or use the blue arrows for that), and draw on it… Now find you layers tab and add a new layer.(Hit the green plus symbol) ![]() Feel free to follow the tutorial with her, just don’t remove the signature. It’s a black lineart on top of a white background. This knight will be the drawing I’ll be using for this tutorial. It’s similar to a traditional mask in that you can prevent certain partsof the underlying image from being effected by the layer that contains the mask. Digitally, a layer mask or alpha mask is a greyscale image which adds transparency to a layer or layer group depending on the amount of black in the mask. A stencil is a type of mask, that you reuse often, but there’s also masking liquid that is single-use only. In traditional art, a mask is a piece of paper or a layer of rubber that protects the parts of an image underneath from pigment. I’ll be going into them briefly this tutorial and will dedicate some time to them in the future.Īnd finally you can make layer masks. Because all colours can be expressed as a collection of numerical values, you can apply all sorts of maths to them. Similar to filters, there’s Blending modes. Hence this often being reffered to as “non-destructive”. So you can make a layer that shows a brightness-contrast being applied to the underlying image, but doesn’t destroy the underlying image. There’s operations: Filter layers, or “Adjustment Layers” as Photoshop calls them, are literally a layer of filter. Or, you can force the layer to inherit the alpha channel of an underlying layer(Alpha inheritance or Layer Clipping). ![]() Or only lock the alpha channel, so the transparency is preserved no matter what brushes you use. You can hide layers, or lock them, so you don’t accidentally edit them. ![]() There’s the layer hierarchy: You can group layers together to make them less confusing. When you save a layered image, each of these images are stored as separate images in that file.īut there’s more than these layers being stored. Remember how I was talking about the Alpha channel last time? Without them, layering would be a lot less useful.Įach layer in a layered image is an image of it’s own and has it’s own Red, Green, Blue and Alpha channels. The layer docker is a way for you to control the drawing order of multiple images. So like the traditional artist, the computer will first draw the images that are behind everything, and layer the subject and foreground on top of it. This is referred to as the “drawing order”. Switch the commands around, and you will not see the yellow circle at all: it was drawn before the red circle and thus ‘behind’ it. In programming, if you tell a computer to draw a red circle, and then afterwards tell it to draw a smaller yellow circle, you will see the small yellow circle overlap the red circle. Or to first draw a line art and then colour it in. In Traditional art, it was not uncommon to first draw the full background before drawing the subject. Most image manipulation programs have layers systems however, and I’m sure I’ll describe at the least one method you can use. I’ll also describe how certain elements are named in Photoshop. Gimp has good layer functionality as well, but some layer types are yet to be available in Gimp. We’ll be going through some techniques for preparing the lineart, and we’ll be using the layer docker to put each colour on a separate layer, so we can easily access each colour when we add shading.īut before we get to that, let us get familiar with the layer docker.įor this tutorial I’ll be using Krita. The thing we’ll aim for in this tutorial is to get your lineart coloured in with flat colours. So, now you’ve got your lineart cleaned up, you may want to colour it in. ![]()
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