#clipping layers

[jupitismstoo]

I fucking love clipping layers

[2020-and-beyond-tracker]

AYIG

April 4

I’m thankful my art app has the option of clipping layers, which make my artistic endeavor that much easier. I'm grateful for the variety of wildlife that our world has. I'm thankful for character voices in Role Playing Games.

[fini-mun]

CLIPPING LAYER TUTORIAL

This was a tutorial that was requested on Patreon!

Here’s the .psd for the file if you’d like to look at it in your art program of choice (most programs these days support. psd, even if .psd are a photoshop native file type): https://file.io/HWue1U

[incaseyouart]

I didn't see this in the art advice tag so sorry if you've answered this before and I'm just blind lol, but how does one use a clipping mask/layer? I've sorta figured out how to add them, but I don't know where to go from there. (p.s. I love your art style so much, it's so pretty and inspiring ahh)

Hey sorry for late reply!! 

So I’m going to answer this with Fire Alpaca, but the principle is the same in Photoshop/most other programs that involve clipped layers. 

Basically all clipping a layer to another layer means is that any colour applied to the clipped layer ONLY shows up on the layer it’s clipped to. So for example you can shade a layer - say clothing - like crazy outside of the boundary of your actual clothes layer but then just clip it to the actual clothing. See below: 

It’s a very useful feature!!!