HELLO PUFF!! URGENT RANDOM LO ART QUESTION:
When you add the canvas texture on an overlay layer in a piece that includes both Persephone & Hades (and is just very pink & blue all around), what color do you choose for the canvas brush/that layer?? I've been experimenting and the problem is that the texture is always nicely visible on the blue only and just barely visible on the pink, no matter what color I choose or opacity the layer is at. Or is there something else I'm doing wrong?? Irdk. ㅠAㅠ Help would be greatly appreciated, esp sooner than later (I have a piece I need to finish by tomorrow morning and this is the final step!). As always, sorry for being annoying ty for being so great.
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STEP 1: IF YOU HAVEN'T YET AND YOU'RE USING PRE-MADE CANVAS TEXTURES, DOWNLOAD MY LO BRUSH PACK (don't mind if the download site looks sketchy, it's just mediafire being bad at design lmao)
STEP 2: FIND THE "ADD CANVAS" BRUSH IN THE LO DEBAUCHERY SET
STEP 3: MAKE A NEW LAYER, PICK ANY LIGHT-TINTED COLOR THAT WILL SUIT THE TONE OF YOUR SCENE (I USUALLY MATCH IT TO THE BACKGROUND OF A PANEL BUT FOR THIS EXAMPLE I WILL BE CHOOSING PINK) AND THEN PAINT THAT SHIT ALL OVER
STEP 4: CHANGE THE BLEND MODE OF THE CANVAS TEXTURE LAYER TO "OVERLAY" AND THEN ADJUST THE OPACITY TO ENSURE IT DOESN'T TINT THE BOTTOM DRAWING TOO MUCH. I USUALLY SET IT TO ~30% IN MY REKINDLED PANELS BUT SOMETIMES I HAVE TO SET IT HIGHER DEPENDING ON THE SCENE
BONUS STEP: WITH ALL YOUR NECESSARY LAYERS TURNED ON (AND ALL THE UNNECESSARY ONES TURNED OFF, I DO INCLUDE THE CANVAS TEXTURE, TEXT AND SPEECH BUBBLES AS UNNECESSARY) RIGHT CLICK ANY LAYER AND SELECT "MERGE VISIBLE TO NEW LAYER". THIS WILL CREATE A NEW FLATTENED VERSION OF YOUR DRAWING AS A SINGLE LAYER. DRAG THAT SUCKER UP ABOVE ALL THE OTHER LAYERS, IT SHOULD BE PALLING WITH THE CANVAS TEXTURE. AFTER THAT, SELECT "FILTER" > "GAUSSIAN BLUR" AND BLUR IT TO YOUR HEART'S DELIGHT. I PERSONALLY LIKE SETTING IT TO A STRENGTH OF 60-70 BUT YOUR PREFERENCE MAY VARY. ONCE IT'S BLURRED, CHANGE THE LAYER'S BLEND MODE TO "OVERLAY" AND LOWER THE OPACITY UNTIL YOU'RE SATISFIED, LIKE THE CANVAS TEXTURE I PREFER TO KEEP IT LOW, USUALLY AROUND ~5% LOWER THAN THE CANVAS OVERLAY (SO AROUND ~25%). FOR THE SAKE OF THIS EXAMPLE I'LL SET IT A BIT HIGHER (AND BECAUSE THE BACKGROUND IS BLACK SO IT WOULDN'T SHOW UP VERY WELL OTHERWISE)
*Note: Yes, I also struggle with getting the canvas texture to appear correctly on Kore compared to other characters, but what I would suggest is making sure it's not too visible on Hades, either. You typically don't want the canvas texture to have a high opacity because otherwise you risk 'cluttering' the piece. Play around with both your layer settings as well as your shading contrast underneath, typically the brighter-colored a character is, the harder it will be for the canvas texture to appear on it so use shading to your advantage to create those darker contrasts that will allow the canvas texture to shine through!
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