🎓 Master DIGITAL ART with MASKS 👉 Layers tutorial 【 PART 2 】 

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W h a t S o I ' v e B e e n C o l o u r i n g I n T h e H a r d W a y A l l T h i s T i m e Now I feel dumb 😂 Thank you for this video, I've actually learnt something new!

Know what else has layers? Parfaits. Everybody loves parfaits.

This would make coloring easier. Thanks a lot

When you used the lasso tool for your character i would have used the wand on the background and inversed the selection

I'm gonna be honest, you explained all this better in just a few minutes than my graphic design professors did in two hours. I learned more with these videos so for that I have to thank you wholeheartedly.

You do an incredible job of not only explaining things but to where they make sense. I love how you always use an example with how it would be used traditionally with art. Thank you, Nadiaxel for your commitment to your craft and sharing it with others!

Nadia, you introduced an idea to me that spread like wildfire in my mind several months ago. The idea that you don't have to go to art school to be good or even great at creating beautiful art! I almost couldn't believe my eyes at how you change mundane strokes of a brush into something that looks so lifelike I touch my monitor just to make sure sometimes :P Seriously, thank you so much. You inspire the hell out of me, please keep being you girl :) (p.s. I love your voice, it's so calming)

I knew everything else but finding out that I can add a mask to a folder and have sub-masks underneath it is life-changing!!! Thanks!

perfect timing, I was just looking for tutorials for this~

"i bet youre embarrassed about how easy that was" me already having forgotten my own name: "yyeah tttotalllyy"

even the LAYERS are wearing masks now!!!!!!! responsibility 😌

This was incredibly useful, lovvvvvve these I'll share the crap out of this

This was great, thank you! :) I'm definitely going to try colouring with layer masks - very enlightening!

Damn, you have so many subscribers but you still heart and comment (if needed) to EVERY. SINGLE. COMMENT.

When I paint I colour the illustration in one solod colour then add a bunch of clippong masks on top each other for the individual colouring, it works kind of the same way

Bravo! 😁another great video and im early this time .THANK YOU 💖👍🏽😍

Omg thank you so much i was wrecking my brain on how to not go out my lines when i paint so i spent so many times to rub off the color lmao, moreover i didn't know how to use clipping masks !!

Hi Nadia! I am at a point of absolute despair. (I'm also a complete PS beginner). Every time I open my PS and want to start line art for a character I notice how my brush strokes are not completely opaque. Whenever I see anyone draw in these tutorials the lines appear completely black and opaque but mine are still quite grey. My opacity is on 100%, I put 'flow' on 100% too and played around with different settings, but I can't get my lines 100% black, like cartoon/manga line art. I use the preset brushes in the program. The one where the ends are slightly angled to create more natural strokes. I also use a Cintique 16 and have pen pressure turned on. Google doesn't give me answers either. What do I do? Please help!

I could've asked a lot of art related questions here but I really need to know which smart watch are you wearing at 3:40 ,,,, please please please I really loved the looks ( of your painting too).... By the way big fan of your art,, helps a lot...☺️☺️☺️

Mask selection don’t work like that for me...

The best video about masks! Thank you!

Thanks for this video: you're a really great teacher. Everything you say is very and concise I've been using selections & clipping masks (along with locking transparent pixels) to achieve similar things, but this seems really interesting. I played around with this and it's super easy to expand or resize the clipping mask even after it's created. Seems very flexible

SUPERB! You explained that perfectly! Totally going to be using clipping masks in future. I used them a little bit such as the circle border but not to separate the areas of the character. That was great! ✨✨✨💖

I knew all this stuff already from just playing arround with software in general, but that didnt make the video any less enjoyable! I always have to edit my masks a lot cuz it turns out i messed something up n have to redraw it thus messing up my colors that i already did. I usually dont know how i feel abt a piece until i color it tho

Ah my brain hurts why didn't I saw this vedio it was so easy after I saw this

Cartoonised nadia in the begining of videos is the best thing ever 😁😁 v cute indeed 😊😊 ur videos are v detailed 👏👏😊🤗

Huh, perfect timing. Thanks for this!

oh ! I love this method ! I thought I knew all about masks and that I was organised but it seems not XD I wanna try this, maybe on my tomorrow's mermay ! Thanks a lot !

I can't believe how easy this actually is! An hour ago I was almost crying at how weird this whole PS Clipping Mask system works. I do a digital art course at the moment and the teacher uses the normal photoshop solid color, hue and saturation and also curve Clipping Masks, and it wouldn't work for me. She concealed the clipping masks, so it was filled with black color, then could add / do the things she wanted to, which wouldn't work for me. Only when it was white or inverted. I honestly did almost lose my mind. BUT THEN I FOUND YOUR VIDEO AND NOW EVERYTHING WORKS - WAYYYY EASIER. YOU are my hero, thank you from the bottom of my heart 💖💖💖

I COULD KISS U RIGHT NOW ONE OF MY FAVORITE ARTISTS WAS USING A TECHNIQUE WITH MASKS AND I KNEW IT WAS SOMETHING WITH MASKS BUT BECAUSE IM A NOOB I COULDNT FIGURE OUT WHAT EXACTLY IT WAS SHE WAS DOING AND THIS VIDEO TAUGHT ME EXACTLY WHAT I NEEDED I COULD HAPPY CRY RN LMAOO THANK U

😭😭 thank you so much! masks are so confusing and this really helps!

Thank you for making those tutorials! And I love your art uwu

That was a really cool, funny, cute and informative video! Thanks :3

Ur videos are so helpful and make me laugh💕

The clipping mask save my life ❤

wow !

Love your art Love your teachings Love your sense of humor You're really helping me out here...thanks!!!

YES! I needed this so much, thank youu!!

So does that mean a clipping mask will go through all the layers under it or just the one underneath? Like for example if you were to have hair layer and under hair you have a layer for eyes, if i do a clipping mask on top of hair and start coloring will the color also go through the eyes?

it was exactly what I needed and never knew!!!..thanks a lot!!!!!!!

Finally someone who explains this coloring on layers masks in detail , you made my life so much easier :D Really love your content and artwork!! :D :D

Thank you for this video❤️ I needed it

PS . I love your artstyle

THANK YOU!! EXTREMELY helpful video!!

Instead of using a lasso tool to select the whole character, couldn’t you just select the background and then invert the selection?

That last tip is a lifesaver. I will no longer be overwhelmed by clipping masks haha

Nadia!! This finally cleared up masking layers for me...OMG...so easy with your explanation. TY TY TY!🤩

thank you so much for this! this was very very helpful and revelatory! this is because many artists show how to color their work but not how to control the layers so whenever I watch tutorials I get confused as to how they used their layers so efficiently. now, I know why! thank you so much again

Wow, I’m early! Thanks so much, I learned a lot of new things!

I've been using photoshop for 15+ years and I never knew this, you've just blown my damn mind. Excellent tutorial, thanks!

You are my HERO. Thank you for this. It was so incredibly helpful.

This is the video ive been looking for. Finally! I understand how artists colour their artwork now.

My right click does not have the “create clipping mask” and it’s also slightly different from yours.

That taught me so much thank you. I love your channel. I'm self taught so these types of videos are so helpful!!!! Take care!

This really helps me understand more about the tools. I'm a newb in digital art and I was overwhelmed with the number of tools displayed the first time I opened PS, like WHAT IS THAT, WHAT ARE THOSE? HOW DOES DIGITAL ARTISTS EVEN WORK WITH THESE?

WOW! thats very useful and power tool. Thanks for the info! Keep making detailed tutorials like this! KUDOS! :D

Finally I could apply my layering method in CSP into photoshop. In CSP you could just simply clip the layer group to layer base below, while in photoshop you could create selection from base layer first and then add the layer mask to your layer group. This is Gold! THANK YOU SO MUCH! I wanna cry :(

Very informative and learned how important masks are, just never understood what the heck until now! GREAT WORK! Talented artist too!

Very helpful and straight forward. Thank you.

Hey!👋 New artist here, and yep your tutorial made a world of difference to me coloring digitally since I don’t have to constantly erase overlapping colors form my lines. Thank you so much!

Thanks you so much ! this is exactly what I'm looking for . I always use clipping mask because I don't understand layer mask now I knew !! :D

THANK YOU SO MUCH. Your videos really are the best and the clearest and so useful

Wow.... Wow.... Thanks a lot such a grt explanation..... I loved it

What you're trying to do with layer masks is already complex. There's a few ways to make selections from a layer, and you use the most nonsensical way of doing it. You got people who don't use the lasso tool as if it were a pen. Hell, you don't even tell the viewers what the settings should be for the tools you use. If they goof, they'll have 0 idea what went wrong. Like me. I followed you step by step and got different results. I can't even color in the folders under the layer mask, making this tutorial useless to me.

I still don't get the destructive vs non destructive one? how is the layer mask differenate with clipping mask since you said clipping mask is destructive?

It took awhile to get the fill layer. Once I finally got it and then got the sub sections... then I drew in one and it worked! Omg, sqweeee 🤗🤩 Thanks, this was very helpful.

"Clipping masks are the easier kind of mask" Me: IT GETS HARDER!?

My slow brain says thank you for this tutorial

This is exactly what I've been looking for. Thanks a lot for the video :D

So how would you use these techniques for characters painted WITHOUT lineart? Does the character(s) still look this crisp? I'm still trying to learn all this and hoping I can paint well with these techniques. Thank you for the tips, either way. Just need to practice.

i cant find this option of create clipping mask on my galaxy tab :( do you know ?

Exactly what I’m looking for, god bless your soul 🖤

my mind literally blew up when she started using that ctrl+click-layer-thingy.... my life has been a lie for the past 3 years drawing. XD

this is so straightforward and clear! thank you. im struggling to keep my fill layer edges to not be pixelated (when using lasso tool) how do you avoid this?

that mask on a higher level is game changing XD daaaaaaaaamn THANKS A LOOOOT!!!

....I feel so much of an idiot, I thought masking was used for something else, I did not at all know that it could help with painting certain areas only that has been chosen by the artist....now I have to try this for myself!! Thank you so much for having uploaded this!!!

the whole mask of a mask thing just changed my life. being able to lasso the whole character and then lasso the separate parts without worrying about it being perfect has been a godsend

I work on infinite painter and tried this method of layering. Wow it works beautifully. As long as the grey fill layer is clean, it works beautifully. Now all i can hope is that the program won’t crash due to having so many layers active😅

Thanks so much I have been struggling to understand what the clipping mask do.

You are right I feel dumb for not knowing how masks really worked. But I feel smart for looking up your tutorial! :)

I was wondering if you could, maybe, draw some celebrities in your style? I am very intrigued to see how you'd put real people's features in your beautiful drawing style, please :)

took me 3 times watching your video to muster up the courage to actually follow along during the fourth watch through. once I've done it my self, it doesn't seem so daunting. hahaha. thank you very much for this detailed and entertaining video!!!

Thank you so much to take this layermasking step by step ! :D I've just startet on digital artwork and you have som greate tutorials to follow on ^^ Keep it up !

This tutorial was amazing. Brilliant, easy to follow and incredibly helpful.

I always come back to this video. The advise about the grouped later separations is perfection!

Thank you for this! My autism makes it difficult to process and understand things sometimes (it's frustrating as hell) and this helped explain things so easily

i've been searching for this and been struggling for ages and now I finally found this vid 😭

Hey, this is a great method!!! Can you tell me if this will work on Illustrator somehow? I am unable to find and I am painting outside the edges :/

Please help im searching for the clipping mask option but it isn’t there (I use clip studio paint) I’ve tried other options but that also didn’t work idk where to find it, maybe I have another version or something idk 😭

I'm sure this is in some way rewarding or at least nice to hear so I thought I would say thank you for this two-part series. I'm currently diving into digital art and this was very helpful. I have been wondering what to do with those masks but it will surely take a long time to get familiar with all the things layers and their settings are capable of. Still I'm glad to try this medium - most art supplies have always been too expensive for me so it's very pleasant to finaly learn how to color a sketch and I don't have to feel like I will ruin a piece or waste money by just experimenting. I know I have a long way ahead (the next step will probably be buying a PC and a tablet so I have a larger area to work with, drawing on my phone in my hand compared to paper on a desk might be easier on my back but I get the feeling that the missing shortcuts and small display space slow down everything significantly) - but now I think I'm at least a bit closer to understanding the capabilities of the tool I've been given.

Thank you soo much i'm new to digital art and i always wondered how people do these shadows and highlights. This was very helpfull!!

I don't know what drawing program you use, but even though my program doesn't seem to have those functions, this video helped me get an idea to use the tools I do have as masks. Thank you!

I wish my art program had layer masks, it would be so helpful 🥺

Sooo I using MediaBang and when I right click on the layer there's only a few options and none of them are called Mask-

Layer mask not working. The image won't rasterize.

thank you for this!!!!!! I've been doing it the hard way all this time no wonder i dread doing digital art (i'm still learning)

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I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS INFORMATION FOR SO LONG!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!

Share it with your friends and enemies..... Man that got me😆.