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Is there an easy way to restrict drawing shade or texture to only inside the character line, so that the shading does not cover the line or go outside of it?

David_Fine wrote:Is there an easy way to restrict drawing shade or texture to only inside the character line, so that the shading does not cover the line or go outside of it?

Try Chad's (CartoonMonkey) custom panel 'Dark & Light' -

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OR my usual way which is to add color fill on a layer underneath the line art , then use a large brush or the Freehand Fill tool to add the shadow layer (between the line art layer and the color layer) , with the opacity of the shadow layer at around 30% - 40% , (notice I OVERDRAW the shadow layer so it can spill outside the character layer) then with the PAINTBUCKET TOOL set to ERASE mode and the Source to ABOVE (the line art layer) click outside the character area with my ERASING Paintbucket , which automatically erases the spill over area.

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Great tips. Thanks so much, DT. Chad's tool is very good, but it appears it requires you to paint right on the paint layer, which I would prefer to avoid as I would like to be able to adjust the shadow afterwards.

You can duplicate structure from your layer with colours and turn the colour layer into a mask / stencil : http://www.tvpaint.com/doc/tvp11/index. ... ions-masks" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Elodie wrote:You can duplicate structure from your layer with colours and turn the colour layer into a mask / stencil : http://www.tvpaint.com/doc/tvp11/index. ... ions-masks" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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David -

Elodie is quite right , of course. The method of duplicating structure of the layer and then using the mask/stencil function works better , because it eliminates having to erase the overspill as in the method I mentioned in my previous post. Again, I am a creature of habit and became used to doing it a certain way (drawing the shadow shape past the edge of the character and then erasing the overspill of the shadow area) , but that adds an extra step which isn't needed it you use the stencil .

-DN

That works great. Thank you!

You're welcome