Just turn off the line work layer and edit the image as needed. One more tip! Lets say you just dont want lines at all cause you are a rebel. Then, when you have dumped your color, merge the layers either via the tool bar or with ctrl+e You can use clipping for that too! Just make a layer above your line layer and dump in the color Now, lets say you werent too happy with the color of your lines. What I do is shade the whole thing a transparent dark blue and erase the areas I want to be highlighted, but you can use whatever technique you prefer You can make multiple clipping layers on the same shape so you dont have to worry too much about layering. Next, make a clipping group for the rest of the colors. (you can delete the purple layer at this point, but I tend to keep it) Now click the white space on this layer to just highlight your characterĪnd create a new layer above this one and dump the color into the selection
Make a new layer below your line work and dump any random color into the selected area Now make sure all your outer lines are closed up and select the negative space in the back ground (I know color difference is selected in the picture, but you need to click transparency (strict)) Instead of selecting each and every section of the body or just coloring without selecting first, take the magic wand tool and set it to transparency (strict) “But Candi! I dont want to just draw circles my whole life, you cant make a career out of that.”įear not, my quick to assume viewer! Lets say you are derping around without a reference image and you draw some fan art.
Before turning on the clipping, it looks like So lets say we want to make the circle red or add red to it. So just click on it and it will look like this If you look over on the left hand side with the layer and the tools, you will see Ok, so you are an aspiring artist and junk and you just got your hands on Paint Tool Sai, but oh noes! You have a hard time with shading and coloring within certain areas! Look no further than the clipping layer.