Easier method - When you set up to start doing a stencil tracing change the document to greyscale, then back to colour. Go into the colour adjustment options and change it to a blue. You can optionally then either crank the brightness up so it looks like it has a white film over it and has no "dark" areas beyond 50% black value to make it easier on your eyes, but you should lighten it even a tiny bit so you don't have any almost black areas. Then start drawing with black lines over it. Even if you fuck it up and draw on the wrong layer you can easily separate by colours - it's a trick I picked up in animation school. Traditional animators often used red or blue pencils for their underdrawings as it's easy on the eyes and extremely easy to separate from the dark grey/black of pencil or pen. Even in photoshop that just requires you to go into the channel tab and deleting one or two of them and bam, all that colour gone. Since you also reduced the contrast in the reference image if you used other colours or left it as greyscale you can blow the contrast and brightness out so high you can remove anything below pure black and save your lines. The number one reason to use this sort of technique is that it prevents you from getting all fucked up trying to look at lime green lines which is the worst part of trying to use the method in the video, which is the most important when drawing staring at a screen for hours on end loooool. Edit - it may take you sending the file to a desktop/laptop version or program, but it's super worth it.
Instead of doing all that..... Go to the select tool. Auto select the green lines you did on the rose, copy paste, and your green lines are now on a new layer. Takes way less time then all that in the video.
@@jonmegarton8078 in the video tutorial they are selecting all the black stuff and deleting it one tiny piece at a time. With the auto select tool you can select each green line and copy paste all of them.
Duuude, I do that quite often as well. Thanks for the tip!!! Hopefully I won’t need it but I know I will, probably today lol Oh shit, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy pic is cool as well!
How you can make the lines of a stencil exactly at a size of a needle for easy one pass lines ? I see some good bold lines on stencil and the needles just covers the blue line perfectly
Dam I was hoping this would work for Android. (scetchbook book pro) but I can't find the option. Guess I'll have to watch what layer I'm on. Thanks for a great vid. I love free value add vids
to difficult...bestone...add new layer and a this layer u draw a linework and finish.,...do want copy,select bla bla bla.... i hope u understand...sorry is my english not really good
That's a long and unnecessary process. Just open a new layer over the reference, rename it to Stencil so you don't forget and make/line your stencil. Easy. Simple.
@@jonmegarton8078 if you were as funny as you think you'd have a comedy show instead of riding a comment that doesn't @ you or is addressed to you bum.
What the fuck! You know how many times I’ve done this?! Thank you so much for this hack. Your the best! Oh by the way I bought a Neuma 4 and love it! @mattelkinstattoo I love fireside too by the way. Have a great day.
Wow this is awesome!
I’ve wasted so much time dealing with this problem lol
I appreciate the both of you...thank you!
Easier method - When you set up to start doing a stencil tracing change the document to greyscale, then back to colour. Go into the colour adjustment options and change it to a blue. You can optionally then either crank the brightness up so it looks like it has a white film over it and has no "dark" areas beyond 50% black value to make it easier on your eyes, but you should lighten it even a tiny bit so you don't have any almost black areas. Then start drawing with black lines over it. Even if you fuck it up and draw on the wrong layer you can easily separate by colours - it's a trick I picked up in animation school. Traditional animators often used red or blue pencils for their underdrawings as it's easy on the eyes and extremely easy to separate from the dark grey/black of pencil or pen. Even in photoshop that just requires you to go into the channel tab and deleting one or two of them and bam, all that colour gone. Since you also reduced the contrast in the reference image if you used other colours or left it as greyscale you can blow the contrast and brightness out so high you can remove anything below pure black and save your lines.
The number one reason to use this sort of technique is that it prevents you from getting all fucked up trying to look at lime green lines which is the worst part of trying to use the method in the video, which is the most important when drawing staring at a screen for hours on end loooool.
Edit - it may take you sending the file to a desktop/laptop version or program, but it's super worth it.
Instead of doing all that.....
Go to the select tool. Auto select the green lines you did on the rose, copy paste, and your green lines are now on a new layer. Takes way less time then all that in the video.
Problem is that only works if all lines are connected. Unless you zoom in and select those afterwards, but yeah thats how I do it too
@@jonmegarton8078 in the video tutorial they are selecting all the black stuff and deleting it one tiny piece at a time. With the auto select tool you can select each green line and copy paste all of them.
@@amberpruitt7824 Sure thing, that the way I've been doing it all along. Or by selecting the negative spaces and inverting the selection, same thing.
Guys class is gonna love this…. Thx brother
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Best thing I’ve watched on RUclips today! Thank you!
Even faster method is to lock the original image from the start so you can’t draw on it at all. 👍🏻
Daaaamn yaaas!!! Time is money...thanks!!!
Duuude, I do that quite often as well. Thanks for the tip!!! Hopefully I won’t need it but I know I will, probably today lol Oh shit, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy pic is cool as well!
Outstanding
Great tip. Thanks.
I'm still rockin pencils & paper
Thanks I’ve done that a lot .
Thanks for sharing that bro🤙
Holy shit... This guy is a fucking GENIUS! Thank you!
Whoaaaaa thanks !!!
Is Fargo bad in the winter 🤔
Absolutely lol
This is a fuc..... awesome trick. Thanks a lot. Thanks🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Amazing
Thank you 😭🙏
How you can make the lines of a stencil exactly at a size of a needle for easy one pass lines ? I see some good bold lines on stencil and the needles just covers the blue line perfectly
Yesss
had this sooo many times😅😅🤣🤣🤣
Dam I was hoping this would work for Android. (scetchbook book pro) but I can't find the option. Guess I'll have to watch what layer I'm on. Thanks for a great vid. I love free value add vids
So fkn helpful!
to difficult...bestone...add new layer and a this layer u draw a linework and finish.,...do want copy,select bla bla bla.... i hope u understand...sorry is my english not really good
Tutorial on how to do the thumbnail?
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More pro create videos please bro
This is going to save me so much time.. and anger lol.
I’ve messed up enough, that opening a new layer is automatic for me now.
An eternity later 🤣😂😂😂😂 "sonofa" 😂😂😂
Noice
brotha just add 4 layers so if you double tap back in the start you don't accidentally back tap past the layers that you made !
HAHAHAHAHA!!! wrong layer!!! UGGGG!!!!
That's a long and unnecessary process. Just open a new layer over the reference, rename it to Stencil so you don't forget and make/line your stencil. Easy. Simple.
thnx Cap Hindsight, also the sky is blue
@@jonmegarton8078 if you were as funny as you think you'd have a comedy show instead of riding a comment that doesn't @ you or is addressed to you bum.
@@jonmegarton8078 well, I thought it was hilarious.
@@Yougot6dollarsbro7 That ok, I'm just in it to read the replies of angry lesbians
@@jonmegarton8078 That’s why it took you an entire day to respond? We’re you stuck reading yours over and over? 🤣
What the fuck! You know how many times I’ve done this?!
Thank you so much for this hack. Your the best!
Oh by the way I bought a Neuma 4 and love it! @mattelkinstattoo
I love fireside too by the way. Have a great day.
Dude.. I do know how many times you've done this. I know because I did it the same amount of times.