Now you can paint freely without drawing outside of that shape.īut isn’t then the same? We are masking our drawing so we can paint quickly and messy without changing the shape, you may say. Set your chosen layer into Alpha lock (leaving the Clipping mask ON). Useful right?īut what if I messed up the colours? I have to be really careful and repaint the layers again? Now we can paint our details freely, you will see that we can’t paint outside our base layer. After that, create new layers every time you want to separate a new colour and set them into Clipping mask. We don’t need to pick colours at this point. Start by creating a base layer, and use it to paint the whole drawing, you can use the same colour. The first step is to create a base layer where we can clip the other layers, so we can have the drawing separated to change the details more easily. That’s where the Clipping mask and Alpha lock come into play. Sometimes it can be frustrating finding the perfect palette and changing over and over the colours on the drawing. Over the years I’ve been developing a method that allows me to focus on the drawing and not so much spending time changing colours. Clipping mask & Alpha lock 2.1 How to colour faster By creating another one on top and putting it as a clipping mask, when we paint over it you will see that it works as a mask, the colour stays within the limits of the first layer.Ģ. Clipping mask: To use it we need to have a base layer.Therefore, we can re-paint over it but without leaving that area.

Alpha lock: Lock the layer, but only the places where we have painted.I love using cause perfect for quick shading. If we have a blue base layer and the top one is red, the results will be almost black.

Multiply: It is a blending mode that can be applied to layers, the effect is very similar to what happens if we superimpose different colour acetates.

As you will see they are not unique to Procreate, they can also be found in Photoshop: So this is a recollection of all of them in case you don’t know them. On this tutorial, I will be talking about some tools that you may not know from Procreate. I love how it looks, I use it for lineart and colouring. Actually just one, since I use it for everything: the 6B pencil. Procreate brushesīefore starting, my favourite brushes.

Procreate alpha lock