How to Use Layer Modes in Digital Art // Multiply, Overlay, etc. 

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Maybe binary color is used to find that one pixel that's transparent when it's not supposed to

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I use overlay to help make the character fit the background more. If the background is mostly blue, for example, I'll put a blue (sometimes purple) overlay on the character.

I made a bee charcter and he was wearing a gas mask and used overlay to make the shine on the glass part for the eyes

I use overlay mostly for non-colored lights and shading, but if you pair it with a color overlay, it can look really cool!

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I really agree with you. To me, digital art is "real life" as well, just another medium with it's own quirks. I think the jist of "you don't have layer modes in real life, so it's good to not rely on them too much" reworded is more so, don't blindly rely on layer modes, but understand what color theory is going on behind them.

Watercolor is just a shitton of multiply layers

It's about making the use of it? I guess? I mean, it's there.. so why no use it?

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Omhmahgawd yes. No matter how good you are at traditional art, you have to relearn everything for digital art. I hope your digital art journey is going well 😊

Yeah it's just an easier way to do things so you don't have to get the effects by hand.

The difference is more like using a stone instead of a hammer to put a nail into a piece of wood. So the 'why' is actually, why would you use a stone when you have a hammer?

A common use is for coloring. A lot of professional digital artists work in b&w and then add color after, using layer modes. This let's you perfect shading and textures and then worry about color at the end, it's much faster and more efficient to work that way for many people. Another use is getting effects that might take waaaay too long if you did it by eye, as an example; if I wanted a nice night time scene, I could hand pick a pallet that matches and fits my color scheme and then try to tweak them to get a night time effect and go by eye for each individual color like.. "Well if his coat is red, in shade on a moonlit night, it should be more purple ish.. but the street lamps are orange... so..." OR I could do the piece as if it had neutral lighting and then add a blue or other color filter using the right layer mode and make it look night time very easily! Certain modes can do exactly what you want. Since shadows are affected differently than bright spots at night, you might use a mode that applies the blue color only to the shaded parts and not the bright spots. This way is much faster and easier if you understand the layer modes as well as color theory. There are many more examples you can find, and I'm still learning myself. I'd just say go play with them. Draw and neutral scene and try to use just modes and adjustments to get different meanings or feelings. Make it feel like a love scene, or a horror scene, or make it night, or feel like they're in the matrix. It's a good learning experiment for layer modes. Hope this helps!

Anagniou I'm really glad it helped!

+MoonlightQueen Ahh thank you! I appreciate it!

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Digital painting is so fun to get into! It has its own challenges but it has its benefits! I love it