Stumbled into a free Procreate workshop at a coffee shop in Denver last month

Was grabbing a coffee before my shift and saw a flyer for a local artist doing a live demo. Figured why not, sat down for 20 minutes. She showed me how to use the color drop trick with reference layers and I swear it saved me like 3 hours of manual shading on my last piece. Has anyone else picked up random tips from unexpected places like that?

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gavin_kelly9113d ago

I learned more from one YouTube short than my whole college design class.

riveradams13d agoMost Upvoted

Oh man I feel that about the sketchy lines leaking, I started putting a layer of white behind my line art and filling the whole thing white first so the color drop has a solid edge to snap to instead of trying to read through all those tiny gaps.

the_holly13d ago

Wait, was the color drop trick the one where you hold down the color circle until it snaps to the selection boundaries? Because I learned that from a random TikTok comment (of all places) and it blew my mind. I'd been manually filling layers like a caveman for like two years before that. But here's my question - did the workshop artist mention anything about how to set up reference layers so the color drop doesn't bleed past your lines? I keep running into issues where my line art is too sketchy and the color seeps out, and I'm wondering if there's a specific brush or technique she showed for that.