Using Alpha Lock, Clipping Masks, and Layer Masks in Procreate // Procreate Deep Dive: MASKS
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- One of the more confusing features of Procreate is the many ways to create and use Masks. What is the difference between Alpha Lock, Clipping Masks, and Layer Masks? When is the best time to use each of these? Non-destructive manipulation - huh??? Masks are a highly useful feature of digital illustration, and after watching this video, you’ll have the answers. Come learn about masks - you’re sure to find endless ways to help you have more control in your drawing workflow, finish pieces faster, and be more creative.
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I like that there is no music here.... feels like you’re talking to the audience one on one
is that sarcastic-
@@paris9871 No.
Do Something New same
I like it too, especially good for non-native English speaker. Very good to listen to.
You.. are ... amazing! Thank you so much! I'm getting into digital illustration and you've been a HUGE mentor for me. Also, I moved cross country and left my watercolors behind, so I'm excited to buy your watercolor brushes for Procreate!! Thank you! ❤
Great detail explanations thanks. Also love the work you put into editing and everything.
This was so helpful! Clearly explained and easy to follow. Thank you!
another great video, thank you
My pleasure!
You are awesome!! Thank you so much!
This is really helpful but I definitely think I’ve developed hatred for the word Guash brush lol 😂
Thanks for the video
Oh... know what I used to do? I used to create the leaf and add the alphalock, select that layer and then go back to the blank layer and start painting. 😅😅😅
11:00: I watched this three times 😅
What if you draw a circle and you want it o fill it in without using the full tool but you don’t wanna go outside the lines?
Help
Okay, this is what I think I learned from the first five minutes of the video. The rest went too fast for me, so I'm just going to focus on this part since it's a brief explanation. I may be wrong, so please don't rely solely on me.
Alpha lock- When you apply alpha lock to a layer, you can only draw on the parts of that layer you've already drawn on. She drew the leaf, and when she applied alpha lock, she couldn't draw outside of the leaf unless she made a new layer.
Use alpha lock when you want to draw inside a layer without accidentally drawing "outside the lines" of that layer.
Clipping mask- When you want to draw on a certain part of a layer, while still being confined to that shape. It uses the layer beneath it as a reference for where you're allowed to draw, but you can modify that new clipping mask layer part independently without affecting the layer beneath it. She was able to use the leaf she drew as a layer she couldn't draw outside of, but when she applied clipping mask she was now able to draw veins of the new leaf without affecting or messing up the leaf.
Use clipping mask when you want to draw inside a specific layer, without affecting that specific layer and instead drawing on a new one that still uses the shape of the old one as a guide.
Layer mask- A mask that can change how parts of that layer show on your picture. You can use black to hide parts of the layer. Or you can use white to reshow it. Or, use grey to make it look translucent.
This mask is still a bit iffy to me, so give me grace here please.
Use clipping mask when you want to hide or show (or a mixture of both by making it transparent), parts of your layer.
Now, how to use it while making your art for different reasons and ways is still unbelievably confusing to me 'cause she went too fast. (Not her fault, easy mistake.) I think I'll just get used to using them through my art while I work.
Hopefully, this helped anyone else who was confused.
Thank you :)
She’s very good at explaining but yes she’s going way too fast so at the end of the day it’s not really useful for beginners
I've been using procreate for around 2 months now and have been SO AFRAID of learning how to do masks (it just seemed too complicated for a traditional artist like me lol).
Watching this, I've realized that masks ARE LITERALLY THE PERFECT SOLUTION TO ALL OF THE PROBLEMS I'VE BEEN HAVING IN PROCREATE lmao
Same here!
Your tutorials are the clearest and the most understandable ones I can find on UA-cam, thank you very very much!!!
I love your illustrations but you go WAY TOO FAST for beginners to follow. This is actually my second time trying to follow this tutorial and it makes me want to give up around the 8 minute mark. It would be helpful if you could visually cue the viewers to what layer you're working on by clicking into the layers box and showing your audience each time as it's easy to get really confused - especially if this video is about masks. Also it seems like there are parts of this video where thigns are fast forwarded a bit - so if it takes you, an expert, a bit longer than what is shown to do something, imagine how much longer it is taking your audience. I understand that there may be greater appeal for your videos if they appear shorter, but for those of us actually working on the tutorial - a true step-by-step version would be much more beneficial. Perhaps you could upload two versions? One that's in-depth? In your tutorial you use many of your custom/paid brushes but for beginners who don't yet know whether this is for them it would help if you could let us know what free brushes we could use/should use to arrive at a similar end result. Since many of your viewers are beginners just looking to get into illustration and procreate, making your tutorials easier to follow, with default/free brushes so that people can feel a level of mastery would probably be beneficial. If you want to advertise your brushes to us and show us how much better they are in comparison at different points - that's great too, but please use the basic brushes or direct us to free options when doing these entry level tutorial videos.
Go to settings on the video . there you can slow down the speed.
Dorte Conroy O.O Now way!!! Really??? Imma chec
And no I’m not sarcastic
I just finished following along and was saying the EXACT same thing to my husband. Glad to see I wasn't the only one who felt this way. Definitely would be more helpful to slow things down for true beginners, and I agree about the brushes, it's frustrating to have to spend time looking for brushes that compare when trying to follow along and learn.
So she’s teaching all this for FREE and people start to complain about she using her own brushes. 🙄
@@cristalreynoso8883 Lol she's getting a kick back from apple/procreate to make these? plus makes money selling her brushes. People are allowed to politely suggest things so the videos are better for everyone. She'll either take them into consideration, or not.
Brilliant. Just bought my iPad Pro and learning Procreate, and this video is so helpful, thank you.
My new teacher)) thx :)
Barry Ward hoi
I haven’t created any worthwhile art since I left art college over 30 years ago. Your demonstration has really inspired me. Thank you.
This is super helpful! thanks!
I have never owned an apple device, but watching these really make me want one. I am completely addicted to watching your videos. #PositiveEnergyAllAround
Daniel de Carvalho just got an iPad 2018 9.7 and getting into this. It’s soooooooo worth it.
iPad Pro 11’ is perfect
Grinning Duck I have the iPad Pro 11 inch and its outstanding
It really is a game changer. I always wanted a cintique and a better computer. After using an intous in Photoshop for years I took the dive and grabbed a pro with the apple pencil. Absolutely amazing. Procreate is also about to drop a huge update, it is only getting better! As far as digital painting goes, it's really fantastic in my opinion. It's also incredible for recording and making music. Really really happy I dropped the money for a 12 inch and Procreate. I'd also like to add that Procreate is a one time purchase! Lastly, Adobe is going to be releasing a dedicated painting and drawing app, as well as Photoshop for iPad this year. Combine that with iOS 13 rekeasin in a couple days and one can have a huge arsenal at their disposal.
I just bought an Apple Pencil because of her haha
I thought this was really helpful but I got so lost at around 6 minutes in >.
Same! Gotta practice it
AquilaLiberum me too :( although I do have a short attention span
Same!
@@afield3943 tell me about it! I've got ADHS :)
Same🤣😅
1:16 Motivation
1:36 Alpha Lock
2:33 Clipping Masks
3:39 Layer Masks
Omg I finally found a video that helped me 😭😭❤️ thank you so much
Sonya Blade please don’t cry
Im 1.5 minutes in but I wanted to thank you for making this so diligently: editing, voice, illustrations, examples, the care that you gave to make this as much clear as possible. Thank you :) this is how I'd want to present a work.
i immediately grabbed a notebook and pen and started taking notes!!!
now i have the whole video summarized
Extremely well made art video, one of the best I've seen on youtube. You deserve far more subscribers :)
I’m still confused haha but this helps! I might just have to watch again
Kelly Criscuolo-DeButts watching several times lol
I keep getting confused around the leaf layers? Whats the multiply blend mode do?
Please tell me it's not just me whose brain nopes out when I try and understand masks?!😐 It's the same with maths😆🤓
I feel the same omg glad to know I'm not alone😂
jackiegrimes11 Phew! That's a relief 😅 I get the concept but idk why it feels like trying to understand quantum physics 🙄😂
Great vid! Actually very helpful for any art software that uses masks, to understand when and how to use which kind of masks (since they're implemented pretty similarly everywhere) . Also, really making me want an IPad :)
On a side note: great production value on the vid itself--really appreciated (not naming names, but some vids with some pretty annoying music, weird cuts, bad humor, etc.) Thanks for keeping a nice low-key vibe on this!
Am I thick... I couldn’t follow this at all. Too fast for me.
It goes quickly! I would probably have to pause it a lot if I was trying to follow along.
I hear you. I've been working on slowing down in newer videos. you can slow the speed of the video, but it does make me sound like a drunk person. 😂
It’s still a good tutorial!
There were like 2 or 3 things that happened so fast I didn’t quite get right away but this video has helped SO, SO MUCH
THANK YOU
I’m gonna go draw right now! ❤️
Great video. Unfortunately you went a bit too fast for me. I am a begginer. I had to pause you a lot in order to replicate your drawing.
You could slower the video pace on the youtube menu as I did myself.
I’ve watched a LOT of mask videos, and this is by far the best explanation. Great video
Thanks Kate! Glad you found it helpful!
Thank you so much! I was working without the masks and it was chaos: lots of mess to clean up and SO time consuming! Now I have to practice A LOT!
Great tutorial! I'm new to Procreate and drawing on the iPad but was familiar with masks from using Photoshop for a billion years. Seeing why you would use each type of mask in Procreate was really helpful for me. I'm also so excited to see you have a daily art prompt! It's just what I needed to commit to practicing drawing every day.
Totally lost at 10:58...Why? What? Where? How? I think my brain is fried trying to figure out how to use Procreate from this site and others.
They ALWAYS leave out a transition explanation. How did we get from point "m" to point "p"?
Your videos are so informative, and so much fun to watch. This explanation of masks transcends Procreate - it's a great way to better understand masks in whatever app you are using. Keep em coming
Lisa, when I use a clipping mask the colour is faded. I have emailed procreate about this. It haven’t heard back. Am I doing something wrong?
Thanks for the tutorial - lots of really helpful tips in here. Curious to know where you got your pencil grip from? I love it!
10:57 when I select a layer the layer menu automatically closes so I have to click on the layer symbol to open it again in order to create a new layer but clicking the symbol unselects the layer? help :(
Thank u this was very helpful
GIRL AMEN and GOOD JOB in showing ppl MASKING TAPE to visualize “masking”. I show this to ppl irl to drive the point home as well haha
Thanks! It's such a good way....right?
i found it easier to work with about 3 layers max. I approach it like a painting. You can get easily confused working with masks
Has the mask feature in Procreate changed in updates (I realize I'm coming to this tutorial 2 years after it was posted)? At around 11 minutes, when you select the leaf layer, create a new layer, then create a mask and it is supposed to include the leaf layer because it was selected, I can't make that work. As soon as I click to add a new layer, the leaf layer is unselected. So when I make the mask layer, it's blank. I've run into this problem in several tutorials, so I'm thinking the mask or select function has changed, but I can't find documentation of it in any summaries of updates. Do you know if this has change? Or am I doing something incorrectly? I've gone back and followed the steps several times and it just doesn't work. Help!
I'm having the same problem! I thought I was crazy or doing it wrong but it definitely seems like the software has changed.
Oh wow I’m gonna make use of your art everyday website! Thank you!
I just checked out your website (the one with the draw everyday challenge) and I can already say this is gonna help me a lot. I'm actually in the middle of an art block and now.. well I've regained some motivation to draw again.. thanks!
Keep up the good work!
@@BardotBrush I’ll try!
Tip- if you’re running out of layers pinch them together and they’ll become one layer
Great job explaining thoroughly without losing my attention!
Your tutorials are exactly what I have been looking for as a noob! Thank you and please don't stop making them!! :) Once I get a little better I'm going to buy your brush/paper master set! I hope to start with the make art every day prompts very soon. Thanks again for all your hard work! :)
Honestly I understood what you were doing until you started drawing your own picture
Great explanations and demonstrations, Lisa. You put so much work into these helpful videos. Much appreciated ... Robby
FINALLY found a tutorial that explains the different mask techniques. Thank yououououou 🙌
As a beginner, I have watched many tutorial videos but yours are really helpful i love it!!!!
The best way for me to get the hang of layers is to follow along. Explaining as you go really helps me. Showing us how to backtrack and change things really helped. Thank you so much.
Very helpful! However, I think I will still need to watch it multiple times!
Thanks for all of these instructions! What “ brush” did you use to draw the initial sketch? I seem to have a lot of trouble picking the right brushes!
I have a similar problem Betsy!
I love how I am watching all of these procreate videos but i dont even have an ipad pro.
Been using Procreate for 3 years. This is one of the most concise tutorials I have seen. Then I went to your website and found so many resources. Excellent.....well done....and your teaching and presentation skills are spot on.
You're amazing! I've always been skeptical about paying for a course on Udemy etc., but if you'd make one I'd pay in a heartbeat!
I've watched numerous Procreate tutorials - yours is BY FAR the easiest to understand. Thank you for taking the time to make this tutorial!
Many videos I’ve watched about masking particularly layer masks don’t give you an example of how layer masks are used in practice. So you only understand the theory but not the application, but this was great and you get a very cute drawing at the end . It’s worth pointing out that in the case of clipping and layer masks you can use the transform tool to move and change the mask and base layer independently in space on your page . Thank you Lisa you make digital art such fun.
That is a good thing to note! I hope to make more tutorials on this subject because there is SO much you can do with them! Thanks!
I'm sorry Bardot Brush, but - like Kat Odonnel below - I couldn't follow either. Too fast for me too. I don't mind watching longer videos since I learn what I'm trying to learn. This is a major feature on Procreate and I've been trying to understand it - very new on Procreate here. Maybe by slowing the video pace, I can catch all the movements you made with your finger... Anyway, thanks for your time and desire to teach us
I really do appreciate the feedback! You are not the first to say this and I'm really making a effort to slow things down in new tutorials I make. :)
I'm watching this in 2021....
March 13, 2020, was the day we had to start wearing masks places in the USA.
This video was posted on March 13, 2019. and, this video is talking about MASKS. I mean... coincidence much???
I just bought your Gouache brush toolbox and I am following your Alpha Lock, etc. tutorial. Where is the "Gouache thick brush" you are using in the set????? I don't see it. ALSO, THE DRY DETAIL BRUSH!!!!
What is probably the most confusing and difficult technique, you have explained in a very articulate and simple manner.
Whtle is a Window; Black Blocks is a very easy way to remember. Thanks a lot.
had to watch on a different device with my iPad in the other room so it doesn't know what it's capable of 😂
Still lost with the layer mask. Not 100% 😩
So basically layer mask allows u to do anything reversible to your layer. At the same time, you can also edit the drawings on the different layer masks independently without affecting each other. Only downside is that you will have lots of layer. I will advise you to rename your layers so that you won’t get confused with your multiple layers of layers =D
layer masks:
- use "black" to erase underlying shape, to give it an outline
- use "white" to go over the erased "black" to bring those erased items back into the artwork
- use "grey" to bring back subtle details erased with "black"
Thank you so much! I am now kicking myself for all the hours I wasted going back and erasing because I only knew how to use Alpha Lock XD
Okay...YOU ARE FREAKING AWESOME! I wish I could slow this wayyyy down though haha!
You can! Click the gear icon and choose a slower playback speed. :)
I'm a total lurker - my goal is to motivate myself to save toward that awesome iPad Pro, so I'm really just doing what could be called "Procreate porn" (Ooh, that sounds bad!). But anyway, I loved this video. Thank you for making it! The whole time I was watching, I was thinking of related types of images I could do with my own creative inspiration - mainly, three to five year-old kids, who could easily be turned into little cartoon creations.
How do we bring in the picture so it's next to our work to copy?
Also, it's not just that it's quick, I think you need to slowmit down explaining exactly what and how these masks work. You understand it, but we've never done them before.
Thanks.
This deserves some kind of UA-cam / Procreate award!! Thx so much.
Glad it helped you out!
My god… Hope I can come back in a year and say, easy peasy, I can do that, no problem :D
You’re the BESTTT .. literally just put your vids on sometime for ASMR while I’m cleaning or eating and DRAWING 🥰
Thank you SOOOO much your video is thr only i find that has an in depth tutorial on (ALL)the Procreate Masking tools please watch until the End🙏🙏💯💯💯💙💙💙⬆🆙
Thank you for this video that solved a problem immediately. Clipping masks are working great for me. I do have a question that I’m not sure you have covered. Previously, I was using layer masks but I kept having the issues where a dark under layer was showing through on the edges of a lighter contrasting over layer. All in the same shape. I used the under layer shape that is dark to create the mask for the lighter color. Hope I am making sense. But is there a way to avoid the weird edges that happen with layer masks?
This was very helpful! I ended up buying your brushes so I could follow along better but it looks like with the new Gouache Paintbox set, you renamed some of the brushes and these names don't match what you instructed. It made following along a little tougher. I bet it would help people in the future if you had a pop up in the video that said the new brush name any time you referred to it by the old name, or maybe had the names in the description.
I'm just assuming that's what's causing the inconsistency because when I got the download file, the Gouche Paintbox has an option called "(Previous Version) Gouche Paintbox Old.Brushset"
Thanks for making this video!
Your channel is amazing all things procreate for beginners like me. You take the crown tysm for this channel. I definitely subbed, liked, shared, comment, and turned on the notifications. TY
That was an amazing tutorial! Thank you very much!
Wow, first video among hundreds that i have watch that actually explain in a simple and proper way to use the layers and mask....Thank you
This is the best tutorial ever! Some people go on and on and you have to skip to the middle of the video, but this tells u everything u need to know without unnecessary chatter. Keep up the good work!!!
Thank you so much for sharing this... I couldn't find anything on using Masks on Procreate this really helped me to understand the different ways to use the masks
I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. when I do the alpha lock, choose a brush, choose a color, it doesn't color. I've clearly missed some steps or there's something wrong with my app. So confused. Can't even finish the pot.
Can you do a video about how to color an insterted image
I had a lil baby suggestion. I love to use complimentary colors to add depth to shadows. So, sometimes I’ll lower the opacity of a brush just enough to barely see any color and use the complimentary color of the item I’m adding shadow to. So, If I drew an orange cup, I’ll choose a blue color, lower the opacity a bit, and color in the shadows. It helps the “flat” look. Obviously there are aesthetic stylistic choices etc. Just a suggestion 🙂
I have a question and it seem to come up several times in my art of Procreate to see if it’s even possible to do to make things easier/faster for me. Please excuse my terminology here, as I’m still new to this, so please bear with me on this….
So, in my last project, I created a flower (plumerias) boarder that had petals that were all made out of just lines-no color/shading to them. There we a lot of them all lined up. I decided after that was created that I wanted some wavy lines behind the flowers for the whole boarder. I didn’t want the lines going through my flowers, just behind them so I created a new layer and put the lines on that. Idk if there is an easier way of getting rid of those lines that are on top of the flowers, than to just go zoom into every single petal and erase all of the lines one. by. one. around the whole. entire. thing…😖 putting it on a separate layer did help, but idk if there’s a faster way of doing this as there were soooo many flowers each with 5 petals each.
So I guess what I’m saying is that I know that the features used here in this video are good for creating lines/shading/etc *inside* an object, but what about everywhere BUT that area where your design is? Is there a way to do that? Or am I stuck continuing to use the tedious zoom and erase option??
Hope that made sense! This question has been bugging me since it’s not the first time I’ve come across having to do this!
TIA!!
Are all the brushes in procreate free?, it looks like you have A LOT of brushes so I was just wondering if you had to pay for any of those, or do ALL the brushes you haven't custom made come with the app. I love and am saving up for an iPad so I can use procreate!! it's been my dream for a while I also love you're videos there so detailed and amazing and helpful!
Really useful to see the difference between masks - I didn't know about Alpha lock - many thanks. Can I ask what pencil you are using? It looks less scratchy than an Apple Pen.
I put on clipping mask after I’ve made an outline but then when I try and fill my outline in, whilst on clipping mask and it just colours in the outlines (which I want to stay black) I’m so confused why clipping mask doesn’t work for me
Great tutorial. I have a pic of a cat. It’s whiskers and soft fuzzy hair pokes outside of it’s outlined body. I want to clear the background but keep the whiskers and some of the fuzziness. How would you approach this? One way I was thinking was to create a mask layer, copy my cat into that layer use a black brush to hide all the content outside of the body outline, turn the transparency up and then trace with a semi gray brush the whiskers and fuzz I want to keep. Is that a good path? Thank you, Dave
Thank you sooooo much you really explained in such detail and examples please make more tutorials I cliccd subscribe and like and willing to pay for monthly subscriptions🙏🙏🙏
I think UA-cam UA-cam, procreate, and my iPad Pro are the greatest inventions in history. Thank you so much for this stupendous invaluable masterclass
Thank you very much! The video was too fast for me and I had to reduce the speed. Even with that had to go back often.... It was painfuly long but I finished it! ))))
There's no easy way to reference this video. I feel like I have to follow along exactly which makes the learning experience slow and clunky. You didn't conclude the video by answering the questions you posed in the beginning. Can someone rec any shorter videos that cover the same thing more succinctly?
Wauw! I’ve been looking forever for someone to show me how Procreate works, just the way you show it. Thanks!
Question about minute 8 when you clean up the basket by erasing some of the original basket. It looks like you went back and re-added more of the basket back, after the erase, and what I'm interested in knowing about that is how you made all of the layers with texture and color show up along with the base color of the basket? How does that work and why does that happen vs just the yellow base color of the basket show? Hopefully that makes sense. Thanks for the very helpful video, for someone like me who is a complete newbie to Procreate.
Hi I’ve tried to follow your drawing of a fig tree but on the layer 2 I can’t get the saturation of colour you have on this video. The opacity is 100%. Not sure why its not looking similar to your demo. Any suggestions.
Love your tutorial, although I will have slow down playback speed to pick up on everything!- Thank you!
The multiply blend mode still kind of confuses me. But I'll learn eventually. Thank you this was very comprehensive
Thank you! Excellent tutorial. btw what is that digital pencil you're using? I like that it looks and is shaped like an actual pencil. Best of regards to you always.